Review of Constellation Creations by University Games

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The world is a sphere and most rooms are cubes. The world also spins and constellations come and go with the seasons. But that's not the entire problem. The problem is that while the concept is good to have a template to place the stickers in thus making each constellation "correct" there is no good way to lay the templates out in the proper places. And the scale isn't even close. There are arrows, and there are compass directions on the sheets, but you have to use them only as a *very rough* guide. Very rough.

If you're looking for more of an idea where they should be in the sky, this is not the product for you borrow a planetarium projector and get some glow in the dark markers to draw in the stars on. But if you don't know anyone with a spare planetarium projector, and you want something just one step up from randomly putting glow in the dark stickers on a ceiling, this is really good. As a nice touch, they did include extra stickers. This is good, because we could randomly fill in "sky" with random stars.

The stars glow well in a dark room as long as the lights are bright when they're on to "charge up" the stars. If there's ambient light (LED night light is way too bright) then the light pollution will drown out the stars. Just like real life!

Ultimately, despite my frustration putting it up with masking tape and moving them all around the ceiling trying to get the positions for 30 minutes before giving up and just applying the stickers, all that mattered is that my my 5 year old likes it. Also worth noting is that we have a smooth painted plaster ceiling. I would not advise trying these stickers on a "popcorn" textured ceiling as it just wouldn't work.

A quote from my 5 year old: "Wow! space looks pretty good dad!"

That's good enough for me!

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I bought this product so that I could paint the constellations on my son's ceiling since he has an outer space theme. It served its purpose.

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We have used these in our units on Astronomy for a few years, and really enjoy how the blank star templates allow many students to make the constellation of their choice. There are only 10 variations, just like the package states, so if you are looking for a larger variety, you will not find it here. I find the variety is perfect for my class of Kindergarteners through sixth graders.

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this is so fun. I put them up in our guest room. it's like camping out with all the starsbut warmer. great fun !!!!!!!!!!!!