Saturday, February 16, 2013

Solar System Art

Solar System Art Project
This is a well loved, super fun, and visually satisfying planet activity!  We have 9 different colors of pom pom balls for the main planets (including Pluto), a small, white one for Earth's moon, and a small brown one for Jupiter's spot.  There are plastic bracelets for Saturn's rings and we cut out half circles and put orange, sparklie tulle material over it for the suns (we pre-made these).  



Tacky glue works best for this project and we cut black poster board into strips for the night sky.  In addition, we traced a circle to make each planet's elliptical path so the children knew where to glue each planet. (the circle used to trace the hemispheres for the world map worked nicely)   We included the asteroid belt in this.




The pom-pom balls are all different textures and sizes.  We tried to do our best to make it relative to the real planets! 


2 comments:

  1. This is fantastic and so simple!

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  2. Is your classroom a yurt?
    Love to see a room photo,
    Thanks for all the inspiration!

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