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Vesta Fiesta > Games and Activities

Hosting a Vesta Fiesta celebration? Find games and activities for a variety of age groups. The easy ones are at the top and the challenge increases as you go down.

KEY
Edible - Involves food    Active - Involves movement    Informative - About Dawn & Vesta    Calm - Stationary

Activity	Description	Edible	Active	Informative	Calm
Asteroid Mystery Boxes	Learn about the nature of asteroids with your hands using a box and rocks.
Grape or Raisin?	Use grapes and raisins to model and compare Vesta and Ceres.
Modeling Vesta in 3-D	Use modeling clay to translate images of Vesta into a 3-D model.
Vesta Flipbook	Make an animated book to watch Vesta spin.
Edible Rocks	Use candy bars to help understand meteorites.
Food Differentiation	Use a variety of foods to model the separation of light and heavy materials within a planetary body.

Activity	Description	Edible	Active	Informative	Calm
In Search of a Missing Planet	Use star charts to search for the missing planet amongst the constellations.
Patterns in the Sky	Learn about the gap in our solar system that helped discover Ceres.
Active Accretion	Play tag to model the accretion (clumping) of specks of matter in our early solar system into asteroids.

Activity	Description	Edible	Active	Informative	Calm
Dawn Relay Race	Divide into teams and race in the pathway of the Dawn spacecraft.
Asteroid Belt T-Shirt	Make your own t-shirt to display the asteroid belt.
Asteroid Belt Pizza	Decorate a pizza to look like the inner solar system – including the asteroid belt.
Searching for Meteorites	Use balloons and small pebbles to model the distribution of materials after meteorite impacts.
Build a Model of the Dawn Spacecraft	Print and build a paper model of the Dawn spacecraft.
This Fiesta Celebrates Dawn Song	A song by Donna Stearns celebrating the arrival of the spacecraft Dawn at Vesta.

Activity	Description	Edible	Active	Informative	Calm
Vesta Piñata	Find out what's inside a paper-mache Vesta Piñata.
Asteroid Memory Game	Test your memory skills by matching as many asteroids as you can remember.
Race to the Asteroid Belt	Play this board game to find out who will get to Vesta and Ceres first.
Asteroid Belt Marble Game	Move all of your marbles into the inner circle.
Kids Activity Pages	Get to know the Dawn mission by downloading fun activity pages.