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"
In this story, the Sun visits their star friends that can be found in our neighborhood of the Milky Way.
When Ruth finds a box of old comic books in her attic, the three friends are inspired to write and film their own science fiction movie with aliens, robots, and space explorers.
In this story the characters' pretend visit to the International Space Station!
"Three High'Flying Friends," which tells the story of Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, and Louise Thaden who were friends that shared a love of flying.
The three friends help a neighbor whose hat blows away and find out about weathervanes and wind direction. They make windsocks and spinning garden decorations.
A collection of foreign food icons
To download and access the icons, click on view resource.
This will open the resource in a new google drive tab.
In the top right corner there should be a download button.
The folder will download as a ZIP file.
Once the ZIP file is downloaded, double click on it to open it, and it will create a new folder with all the icons!
The icons are PNG files, which means they have a transparent background, so they can easily be placed on top of other materials.