There are so many options and activities that can be done when you introduce stars. the children are fascinated by them and rightly so.
However the activity set that I will be focusing on is space and Aliens. I think it opens such a creative element to space and the children love it. One of the stories I always start with is the Man on the Moon and the children find it hilarious. There are so many lovely storybooks around aliens such as Aliens love underpants and the Smeds and Smoos. we do so much Drama and art out of this and i find it always draws the children who are not confident to come out of their comfort zones as the sillier an alien looks the better.
We also link this in sometimes with Maths and get them to roll a dice for the eyes, arms, antennae, etc and they have to draw how many the dice says. and sometimes I get the children to fold up paper into 4 strips and play musical chairs. WHen the children land on the next chair, they draw the next part without seeing the previous drawing.
Our Christmas play that I have done for anumber of years is called Christmas with the Aliens and it is a lovely transition from Space which I usualy do in November to our festive season.