Thread by @StillDelvingH

Today after work, the kids and I will climb into our (sofa) spaceship to go camping in the depths of the Imaginary sea (aka in my room) on planet Spircllllllr (Kids picked the name) somewhere in Dragonfire constellation.
Since we can’t afford an actual trip -we went big.

A few tricks if you can’t afford to leave too but he never gone camping in a room or leaving room
-You actually don’t need a tent (we don’t have one.) Sleeping out is fine.
-Background sounds do the trick
-Once the light are out (or dimmed out) go for your exploratory excursion

Each can describe what they see -note it can be quite long. We once spent two hours looking out the stars through the sky windows describing the various dragons flying by.
-Make up the story of the place you are in. Its inhabitants, cooking, weird langage. how it was discovered…

Ofc planning such a trip takes a lot of time and energy. It is recommended to eat in the spaceship restaurant (kitchen/table) and not in the camp (beds). Task the kids with calculating the best itinerary (give them any free space app showing the universe) and organising the camp.

It may sound lame but it isn’t -Turns out CGI ain’t needed to build your made-up world.
You can also tour the Earth: Select photos on the Internet (from the airport to wherever you’d want to go) and watch them together as if you were there. (“Wanna eat this? Let’s bathe there!”)

So space travel & landing went fine, space pizza was good, and kids are overexcited as we spotted our first living creatures -Let me tell you this hycean planet is home to things much bigger than microorganisms. I think we’re going to call them “Megalodolphins”

Spotting imaginary space creatures going well.
You wouldn’t believe all they manage to see…

Here’s a sample 👇
(Note the added little man/hand/finger to indicate the size of the spotted creature)
(Overexcited kids: “We’re just like @Thom_astro, sharing our space trip with the world!”)
So welcome to Spircllllllr, world :-)

FTR this is the background we’re using

More creatures here
The “Mosagore” is especially scary as it’s exuding methane

We are now too busy by various observations to keep documenting live -5 years old has also started drawing the creatures he spots
Long story short, we found a cave partially uninundated, lava lakes (with creatures) and a cake made of chocolate and… articulations
Happy Halloween

Oh my, 5 years old found evidence there’s intelligent life in the universe, one of the creatures (the one with a name in an alien alphabet) is piloting a spaceship (“it’s not an arrow mum it’s a spaceship!”)
Will get back to documenting the trip here when they hit pillow station.

And here we go.
On the left, marine creatures.
On the right, the very weird ones spotted in the cave. (They were quite unfriendly, good thing we have a powerful force field)

More cave creatures here on the left (first one is a *very* unfriendly lava creature).
5 years old hairy and teethy creatures on the right.
(As indicated, the bottom one is nice.)

Another cave, where we found more creatures and the chocolate/articulations cake. Elder kid wanted to eat it. We talked space safety/need to analyse it first. We couldn’t tho, as when we tried, the cake used its mini legs to run and jump into the lava lake.

Last creatures spotted by me eldest were the “fourmi-croonde” (Microwave ant, it’s funny in French) and “Stupidon” -The untidier his hair, the stupider he gets.

And here are the 5 yrs old’s creatures & their spaceships.
It was a long trip &they should be exhausted but -as all kids going camping, no matter if it’s in the house- they are still overexcited and giggling while pretending to sleep
(ability to oversleep the next day is needed)

Hope you enjoyed our space trip.
(Oh and you don’t have one of these apps to walk the sky consider it, it’s quite cool -We always use it for the trip part, the kids love it)