There are 8 planets in the Solar system. These are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A Mnemonic to remember their order is - My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles.
The first thing that you are going to need to do is colour in the planets from the Worksheet found on the Shining Mom blog.
We are now going to cut 8 strips from the piece of black card. You want to try and make the strips about the same thickness if you can.
You first need to cut out the Sun and starting with the planet furthest away from the Sun - and that is Neptune so we will cut it out and glue it to one of the strips of card
We are then going to push a split pin through the centre of the Sun and through the end of the strip of back card that is attached to Neptune
You now want to cut out the 7th planet from the Sun - Unanus. You are going to stick this to a strip of black card and then cut a small amount off the end of the strip as it is nearer to the sun than Neptune. You can then push the end through the split pin in the centre of the Sun
You are going to need to repeat this step for the other planets moving in towards the sun from Saturn to Mercury, each time you will need to gradually shorten your strip of black card as the planet moves closer to the Sun
You can now close your split pin and move your planets around the Sun at the centre!
The video tutorial for this activity is available on the Surrey Libraries Facebook Page or the Surrey Libraries YouTube Channel
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