Object: Get a piece of white or light-colored construction paper. Cut out 2 stars from the construction paper. Color one star a very pale blue. Color the other star reddish-orange.

Good morning, boys and girls. This morning we're going to talk about stars. Have you ever gone outside at night and just looked up at the stars? They're beautiful, aren't they? Did you know that we can see about 2,000 stars with just our eyes? If we had a telescope, which is a thing we can look through to see stuff that's really far away, we could probably see about 6,000 stars. Astronomers, the people who study stars, say that there are thousands of millions of stars in our universe. All the stars in the sky look shiny and white to u…