Att: Artsy/Crafty people! Need ideas for a Space Display for Grade School!?

Question

I need to draw or put together a space shuttle that looks like it's blasting off. I can hang it from the ceiling, or tape it on the wall. The shuttle itself can be around 4 ft high, but I want to use something crafty that makes is look like it's blasting off, like cotton, or batting, or something like that, to make a more 3D effect. We're taping stars to what will be the "space" area the shuttle is heading to, and taping the kids pictures in the stars. We want to put the teacher's picture in a shuttle window to make it look like she's flying it! I just thought there might be a crafty person with a cool idea to help me! It'll be displayed in the hallway. The kids are about 9 years old, but the display is set up for everyone to enjoy.

Answer 1

see since you want it around four ft tall, go to a post office and ask them if you can have or buy one of those cardboard rolls you know? like when you run out of toilet paper that carboard cylinder, that's what i mean, but they should have a huge thing
if it's big enough, but a small fan at the bottom and have colored shiny paper kind of like aluminum foil but a lot more flexible put that at the bottom and make it like flames have those bike handle streamers the shiny girly things you put on a girl's bike handles and put that inside the flames so that the fan blows it around and it has motion not sure if it'll work, but it's worth a try don't you think?
well for the rest of it, use air-dry clay to give the 3-d effect BUT DON'T PAINT IT with brushes and don't attatch it directly to the shuttle when the clay whatever you're making is done drying, spray it with spray paint, it's an even coat and you can even make all shiny and whatnot
to make it look like it's blasting off, well if you look at the pictures, there is usually something holding it up until the boosters fall off and then it's in the sky
if it's already in the sky, don't put the booster on it because they already fell off
good luck!

Answer 2

Well if it is a hallway display try rolling white craft paper into a fuselage. Hang it from the ceiling. Then use poly-fill with orange and yellow spray paint leave some plain for the exhaust. Put that behind the spacecraft. Then the stars you can trail behind the shuttle with all the pictures on them. You have already a good idea of what to do I would just go with it.

Answer 3

I would get wires, bend them in the shape of the "flames" then cover the wires in red and yellow saran wrap or tissue paper. If you want to be really cool about it, you could put a glowstick or a light inside the saran wrap "flames" to make them glow.