How to make Planets with Balloons and Rice | Solar System Project | Planets Craft | Planets for Kids

#atoyday #solarsystemsodel #planetscraft #planetsproject #planetsorder How to make 8 Planets using Balloons and Rice? Let’s build a Solar System Model at home or school to learn the planets order. Great project for preschool, kindergarten and school science lesson or home craft with kids. Children will love to hold the planets in their hands and play-out their various orbits. Helps to remember main description and order of each planet. We used 9” and 12” balloons for each planet, and two large balloons for the Sun. Mercury – rice: 1/8 cup, balloons: two silver, one dark grey Venus – rice: 1/3 cup, balloons: two yellow, one orange Earth - rice: 1/3 cup, balloons: two green, one light blue Mars - rice: 1/4 cup, balloons: two brown, one red Jupiter - rice: 1 2/3 cup, balloons: two golden, one red, one white, one light sky blue Saturn - rice: 1 cup, balloons: one brown, one white, one golden Uranus - rice: 2/3 cup, balloons: two light sky blue Neptune - rice: 2/3 cup, balloons: two dark blue, one light blue The Sun – rice: 3 cups, balloons: one red, one yellow You can be creative and fill the planets with sand, beans, etc. How to learn the order of the planets? Just remember: My Mercury Very Venus Educated Earth Mom Mars Just Jupiter Served Saturn Us Uranus Nachos Neptune But where is Pluto? Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. Pluto is very small, only about half the width of the United States, that’s the main reason why Pluto was relegated to “dwarf-planet“ status by the International Astronomical Union in 2006. Subscribe to watch upcoming videos: