Being a hot desert planet, we of course had to base this on real sand! We used food containers as buildings and the backdrop (our version of Mos Eisley Spaceport) was made using sponge painting. The buildings are also sponge painted, but I covered them in white tape first so that the paint would stick better.
The figures are all downloads from the internet - I resized them all - this time a bit more realistically :) Some of them I managed to find colouring in versions of, was even better. They're laminated, partly because I love laminating stuff (yes really), but mostly because it helps them to stand up. The figures are literally just pushed into the sand.
I know we have the Millenium Falcon taking off without it's crew, but it just looks so cool flying off the page that we had to do it.
This was a relatively straightforward 'build', next up is Dagobah - a swampy planet... I suspect won't be quite so easy! A good opportunity to talk about yet another different type of habitat though.
We've been looking in more detail this week at types of planets/habitats, pairing up key words like 'hot' 'rocky' 'gas giants' etc... and talking about what we know about each one. So far we've done 12 and I've been handed a list for the next four :)
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