The friends are inspired while cleaning their rooms to return to their fantasy space story and imagine how their robot and alien characters could clean up space junk.
"Family of the Sun," which tells the story of the planets in our solar system. After the story, do a craft to make a solar system playset.
A slideshow version of the Flights of Fancy Story Time Wright Brothers learning lab. An alternative to using the Smithsonian Learning lab website
When the Three Friends and Mo visit the zoo, they are inspired by animals that fly like hawks and eagles, little birds, bats, butterflies, and dragonflies to make winged costumes.
National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story Fly and Float, a story about seaplanes.
Gather your little ones for a special Halloween-themed story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari reads an original story and leads us in a craft.
In this story, the three friends and Mo are inspired by the Memorial Day Parade.
Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Homebuilt Airplanes," which tells the story of three friends who build their own airplane out of items in their home.
The Three Friends have trouble playing a flight video game and then have more fun creating play cockpits where they can pretend to be pilots.
Our three friends are inspired by seeds floating on the wind. Afterwards do a whirligig craft.
We return to our three friends as they imagine what it would be like to plan a trip, build a rocket, and travel on a mission to Mars.
This story celebrates the upcoming landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.
National Air and Space Museum offers stories for young children and their families inspired by our collection of air and space objects and historic photos.
In this special author session, Margaret Weitekamp reads the book, Pluto's Secret: An Icy World's Tale of Discovery
Tune in to a special Flights of Fancy Story Time interview with the authors of the children's book Pluto's Secret.
Earth is trying to sleep but the Satellites keep bothering Earth with noisy signals. They are talking in all different languages and sending all kinds of information.
Our three friends talk about plans to build a spaceport on the Moon. Then they build a habitat for Ruth's new pet hamster, Rocket, that has everything she needs, just like a Moon spaceport would.
This story is about the orbiting and revolving Earth.
National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "The Incredible Balloon Flight to Dizzying Heights."
Author Sandra Nickel and Illustrator Aimee Sicurro discuss and read their book "The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe"