Our classroom recently read Aliens Love Underpants as part of our Solar System Unit. The children loved the silly story and the bright pictures that were in the story. Once we completed a discussion about the book we began to create our own aliens. Students first drew their aliens, than painted them with a "space age microwave puff paint," which was actually a very simple compound made of common kitchen igredients. The neat part was microwaving the alien and watching the paint puff up and cook! Students than needed to write a three sentence paragraph about their alien! The finished products were very cool!

While some students worked on their aliens, others mushed up their own custom color of space age microwave puff paint!

Busy smooshing their bags of paint!

David pulls his finished artwork from the microwave!