It’s the 50th Moon Landing Anniversary! On July 20, 1969, the first manned spacecraft landed on the moon. Millions of people watched as Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the natural satellite that orbits our Earth. What a breakthrough for the U.S.A.!
Fifty years later, we still love everything space-themed – especially when it is kid related. Here at Name Bubbles, we even designed a Space Labels Pack that your kids can label all of their things with so they don’t end up in the lost-and-found or maybe even outer space… ;)
Check out our Space Labels Pack that is 20% off right now! To see our other options of Space Labels, you can see them all here.
We put together some fun facts to share with your kids about the moon along with a fun coloring printable that you can download to print for your little ones to color on.
Here are some fun facts about the moon:
- The Moon is about 4.5 billion years old!
- The distance from the Moon to Earth is approximately 238,857 miles. Woah!
- If you were to drive from the moon to Earth at 65 mph, it would take you 3,674 hours to get there, or 153 days driving non-stop 24/7 hours a day!
- The moon came to be what it is when a large object hit the Earth and blasted out rocks that all formed together to orbit around the Earth.
- The moon landing was watched on television by an estimated 600 million people.
- The astronauts landed with only 25 seconds of fuel to spare!
- The astronauts left pictures of humans and recordings of several different languages on the Moon's surface.
- “That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” were the famous words by astronaut Neil Armstrong as he made the first human footprints on the Moon.