HOW TO MAKE A SOLAR SYSTEM MODEL... OUT OF THIS WORLD! What better way to learn about space than to make your own Orbiting Planets Solar System! This kit comes plain ready to decorate & make a wonderful 3D solar system. It is a perfect group project- each child can decorate a few planets each and then as a team the children can assemble the system learning about the order of the planets.

If you are lacking space and would prefer to The Solar System Kit make your Solar System model as a poster, you can follow the instructions but cut your This kit contains You may also need balls in half first. Then using half balls, you’ll 10 decofoam balls Acrylic Paint 2 decofoam rings Low temperature glue gun have enough to make two posters! Wire Wire cutters or scissors Instructions to build

Following the table, paint the decofoam in the suggested colours using only acrylic paint. Use a toothpick pricked into the decofoam to be able to hold and paint the whole surface. Note that the balls are numbered for easy identification!

planet size paint colour wire length wire spacing 1 sun 150mm ball Yellow/Orange 2 mercury 38mm ball Orange 6.5cm 3 venus 50mm ball Blue/Green 10cm 2cm 4 earth 50mm ball Navy Blue 12.5cm 3cm 5 mars 38mm ball Red 15cm 3.5cm 6 jupiter 100mm ball Orange 18cm 5cm 7 saturn 75mm ball Yellow 20cm 8cm saturn’s ring 150mm ball Orange 2 x 25mm 8 uranus 65mm ball Light Blue 25cm 4cm 9 neptune 50mm ball Navy Blue 25cm 3cm 10 pluto 25mm ball Pink 29cm 5cm ring base 150mm ring Black 36cm

If you enjoyed making your Science Building the solar system Crazy Solar System, why not try 1. Identify each ball to each planet by matching numbers on each ball. Paint all balls and some other fun science kits... rings relevant colours. You may want to use a toothpick to hold the balls as you paint. 2. Cut all wire lengths as indicated above. 3. Glue the Sun ball into the black ring to form a base. 4. To suspend Saturn ring, push each end of 25mm wire into opposite sides of the ball. Glue to secure. Then push wire ends into the ring. Glue to secure. 5. Glue the wires into the planets, matching up the correct wire lengths with the correct balls. 6. Insert wire of each planet around the Sun in the order listed above. Glue to secure. 7. Your Solar System Project is now finished!

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