Free printable pack · Ages 4–8

Seven rocket printables for kids who like to build things

Coloring pages, a paper rocket that actually flies across the room, and a launch log for writing down what happened. Print them at home, today, for nothing.

Cover of the picture book Nova Knight, Rocketeer, showing a girl beside a homemade rocket in a backyard at dusk

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What’s in the pack

Seven pages. Black ink, plain paper, no special supplies.

Meet Nova

A coloring page of Nova and her dog, straight from the book’s artwork.

The Backyard Workshop

A second coloring page — the whole scene, tent, tools, rocket and all.

Build a Paper Rocket

Cut, roll, tape. Five steps, a pencil and a drinking straw, and it flies.

Design Your Own Rocket

A blank launch stand. They draw what they’d build and name it themselves.

Spot the Six Changes

Two versions of the same backyard scene — find what’s different between them.

The Backyard Maze

Wind through the places in the story to get from the shed to the launch pad.

Nova’s Wonder Log

Six rows to record what you changed, what you thought would happen, and what actually did. This is the one that turns a craft into an experiment.

Nova Knight, Rocketeer book cover

Where the printables come from

Nova Knight, Rocketeer is a picture book about a girl who builds a rocket out of things other people threw away, including a shed door. It doesn’t work. She fixes it. It still doesn’t work. She writes down why, and tries again.

It was written by Juliet Novak, who is a kid herself, for readers ages 4 to 8.

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