A simple do-it-yourself model of the solar system. Model of the solar system in one evening
- take a dozen balloons.
- inflate them a little to make balls of the desired planet size.
- cover these balls with papier-mâché (the first layer is newsprint + paste (can be replaced with diluted PVA), the top layer is white paper).
- wait until everything dries (it may take a day).
- deflate the balloons and take them out through the hole (you can, of course, not deflate, but it’s dangerous).
- seal the hole from the ball.
- paint with the necessary colors (earth is blue, mars is red), draw additional elements(continents, caps on Mars, volcanoes on Venus).
- enjoy.
- balloon
- PVA glue
- newspapers
- threads, cotton wool, markers and paints.
- a small ball, a ball, even an old one will do Christmas tree decoration. This will be our basis.
- We cover it with toilet paper, it may not be as smooth as it turns out.
- Now we need to decide what kind of planet we are making. If it’s Earth, let’s prepare green and blue colors; if it’s Jupiter, let’s not forget about the Great Red Spot, etc.
- We draw the main outlines; you can use photographs of the planet presented on the Internet.
- Four planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings. If you make a model of any of them, do not forget to attach the rings, without it the craft will not be complete.
You can make a planet using the papier-mâché technique, using, for example, as a base, old globe, paste over half of it, then another half, then glue two semicircles together and here is your layout, painted accordingly and the planet is ready.
To make planets yourself, you need two things:
1 You need something round and dense enough to hold its shape under its own weight.
2 You need to know the colors of the planets and their sizes, that is, proportions relative to each other. Astronomical images will help you with this. It is better to start creating from Jupiter, since it is the largest. If, for example, you make Mercury the size of a ball, then according to the proportions, Jupiter will have to be the size of a room or even larger, so you can make a mistake.
Here's a picture to help you, roughly reflecting the proportions and colors of the planets:
How to make the planets themselves?
Options:
1 Take some plastic or rubber ball and simply color it.
2 Take a ball and paste it over to make a ball of papier-mâché. Then carefully cut the paper ball in half (being careful not to pierce the ball itself). Remove the two halves. Paint them oil paint on the outside for appearance and with glue on the inside for strength. Then glue them together. A disk for Saturn can be made by cutting a circle with a hole out of some material, such as cardboard, and then painting it with oil paint.
To put it simply, in order to make a Planet craft, we need to make papier-mâché of a round shape (if the object is solid, then the finished papier-mâché will need to be cut and then glued; and if a balloon was taken as a basis, then pierce it and remove through the hole left in advance). The papier-mâché is then processed traditional way, that is, it is painted (according to the type of planets in our case) and, if necessary, covered with drying oil.
There is also an example of how you can make ** an entire solar system.**
To do this, make a ball out of paper
soak in water
cover with toilet paper and put it back into the water
roll this ball in your hands and set it to dry on a radiator or with a hairdryer
We start making a solar system, berm plywood and make a circle, paint it with paint
draw stars
we paint our circles and attach them to plywood
there you go!!
My son did it beautiful planets from plasticine. To do this, you just need to take the colors that match this planet and roll it into a ball. You just need to monitor the sizes so that the ratios match. Then he made a cone-shaped stand out of paper and placed these planets on them. When finished, I arranged them the way they should be next to each other. If you want this model to last for a long time, then you can buy it for this polymer clay(or plastic). In my opinion, for kindergarten it will be easier than papier-mâché.
I would also make it using the papier-mâché technique. but the globe, I think, is a bit difficult to find. but some other spherical object - for example - a lampshade will do just fine. I even took a motorcycle helmet for gluing.
We make the planet Saturn using papier-mâché technique. This wonderful craft planets on the theme of the Cosmonautics Day competition in kindergarten. We take the following materials:
We take the balloon, inflate it, tie it, put it on a stand and start covering it with newspaper using the papier-mâché technique.
Then we dry the ball, the more layers the planet has, the longer the ball takes to dry :)
Now, using a needle, pierce and remove the ball.
And now we are making a ring for the planet Saturn; it should fit snugly on our ball in size. We paint the planet Saturn itself with yellow-orange colors.
Cut out a ring from cardboard.
Saturn is ready :)
Approaching Cosmonautics Day and to celebrate it on April 12, to congratulate someone, to remember, to put a piece of your creativity into crafts, let's do something with your own hands, For example, planet from space.
Except Saturn, from inflatable ball can be made planet with craters, or planet earth.
You will need an inflatable balloon, newspapers or white paper, and PVA glue. The inflatable ball is placed on something to make it convenient and covered with newspaper or paper, which is torn into pieces and used to cover the ball. If the ball is covered with newspaper rather than white paper, then it must be painted with white paint. Leave to dry in a warm place.
The more newspapers we paste, the denser the layer, the thicker the walls of the future planet.
As soon as the glue dries, we pierce the ball with a needle where it has a tail, and it goes down, carefully pull it out from the inside, and cover the hole again. We glue a thread there - this will be the holder.
Now we use pieces of rolled newspaper, which we roll into a circle, glue to our ball, and make craters. Having glued each newspaper rolled into a circle, depicting a crater, we then decorate everything with paint. It turned out planet With craters.
And planet Earth is the easiest thing to make. Our ball will be colored accordingly different colors, depicting oceans, continents.
Having made several planets, you can hang them on strings in the nursery, you will get a whole planetarium - planets in space. You can hang them on a lamp and turn off the light to see all the planets.
Planets from papier-mâché.
All you need for work is inflatable balloons, water, flour.
Mix flour and water.
Newspaper cut into pieces rectangular shape, any size.
The ball is covered with newspaper in three layers, sequentially, allowing each layer to dry.
You can dry the balls covered with newspaper, for example, in the oven.
After drying, prime the balls, they turn white.
We paint using acrylic paints.
On top of the paints is acrylic clear varnish.
It is not difficult to make a model of the planet. To do this you need:
Maybe you love Space and want to have your own solar system? Or are you a parent who has children and has been given creative task for school? Whoever you are, if you have a desire to create a model of a three-dimensional and very similar solar system, read our article on DIY work.
The space theme is very attractive for children and adults. After all, she is so mysterious and enigmatic. With the help of a large and voluminous layout of our solar system, you can tell children about the structure of the Universe, show space objects and planets.
Of course, before starting work on the model of the Solar System, it will not be superfluous to remember all the details of its structure. Read astronomical literature and remember main principle structure of the Universe: the Sun is located in the center, and all the other planets revolve around it.
Master class on creating a do-it-yourself model of the solar system from plasticine
We offer you detailed master class on sculpting a solar system from plasticine with your own hands. Prepare all the materials necessary for work:
- Multi-colored plasticine
- Thick cardboard in gray or dark blue (your future outer space)
- Wire
- Small carnation
All materials have been prepared, now you can get to work. Start sculpting the main central element of the system - the Sun. In order to achieve desired color, mix several types of plasticine: yellow, white and orange. However, do not knead everything into a monochromatic mass, leave a little heterogeneity. Then attach this plasticine mass in the center of your thick cardboard, press and smear it with your fingers. There should be rays of the sun.
Now take white plasticine and twist thin sausages. These are preparations for future planetary orbits. Make nine rings around the Sun from these thin sausage threads.
Make the smallest planet in the system - Mercury. Make it out of gray, brown and white flowers plasticine. Using a small nail, make small holes across the surface of the entire planet - craters.
Triple Venus larger size than Mercury. Use grey, black and brown colors. Using wire, create the relief of the planet.
Now make planet Earth. Use green, blue and yellow plasticine.
To sculpt Mars you will need black and orange plasticine. Blend them to a marble effect.
Large Jupiter looks striped from a distance; to sculpt it you will need brown, beige and orange stripes.
Saturn is very similar to Jupiter in its color scheme and size, also don’t forget about the famous ring that surrounds Saturn.
Uranus mold from blue shades plasticine. Imitation of Neptune - an ordinary ball of blue plasticine.
Pluto is another dwarf planet that requires gray and white colors to sculpt.
When all the planets are ready, lay them out in order (as shown in the photo) and attach them to the solar orbits.
You have created such a wonderful composition from plasticine. If a child has such a visual aid, completed with my own hands, then you don’t even need an astronomy textbook.
Create a 3D model quickly and easily with your child
To sculpt such a model of the Solar System, you will only need matches and plasticine.
Start sculpting round balls - planets. Make an orange plasticine ball - this will be the Sun. Then mix orange and brown colors of plasticine and roll into a smaller ball. This will be Mercury. Do similar manipulations with the third ball, but add more brown color, and you will create Venus. Now our Earth: wrap a blue ball with a green sausage and spread it across the planet. By mixing red and a little black plasticine, you get the planet Mars. Make a larger ball from the brown plasticine mass and twist a couple of sausages light brown. Wrap the sausages around the planet and flatten. Jupiter is ready. Make a circumplanetary ring for Saturn. Mixing gray and blue colors, make a small Uranus. Make Neptune from blue plasticine. You have finished sculpting the planets, start assembling the model.
To do this, take matches and string ready-made plasticine planets onto them. Place the sun in the center, and stick the planets on matches into it. Ready! Enjoy your 3D model of the Solar System.
Video on the topic of the article
At the end of our article, we invite you, dear readers, to watch several educational videos on creating a layout. We hope you find them useful. Enjoy watching.
It’s no secret that all sorts of crafts that are assigned to our children at home in kindergartens and schools are actually assigned not to children at all, but to their parents :) And it often happens that either the child said about homework late, or we ourselves stretch out the “pleasure” - we delay with the creativity that suddenly fell on our shoulders until the last moment. And now tomorrow we need to take the craft to the garden/school (underline as necessary), but we have nothing ready yet. Well, it’s okay - let’s try to make a model of the solar system in one evening - quite common homework, especially for schoolchildren.
Of course, it’s better to have more time and start making the solar system with your own hands slowly. But if you happen to be Cinderella and in the evening you need to go through all the millet, peas, wheat to create, not just anything, but a model of the solar system, and not from banal plasticine, but in order to be guaranteed to get an “A”, then let’s not grumble, but Let's get down to business quickly. And of course, don’t forget to take a “colleague in misfortune” to help, the same one who will have to take the rap for your joint masterpiece the next day :)
When I faced a similar problem, I, of course, first of all went to the Internet to search ready-made solution. But none of the options found satisfied me. Everything was either too simple and banal, such as crafts made from plasticine or the Solar System from cut out paper circles-planets, or too time-consuming - the papier-mâché version would have looked pretty decent, but would have taken a lot of time to create. Therefore, it was decided to look for our own way. It occurred to me to use wet newspaper and glue. Surely, this method is not know-how and has its own name, but I am not aware of its existence. The technique has a bit in common with papier-mâché, only much faster. So let's get started.
To make planets we will need:
- Newspaper. The content does not matter :), but there is still a requirement for quality - the worse the quality, the better for us.
- Toilet paper or any other well-soaking paper. The quality requirements are the same.
- Glue. I had stationery PVA - it worked perfectly, I didn’t experiment with anything else.
Good news: until 2006, there were 9 planets in the solar system. In 2006, the last planet in the solar system, Pluto, was reclassified as a dwarf planet. For us, this means that we will have to do one less planet.
It also needs to be said that when making a model of the solar system, we will have to deviate from reality more than once. Let's take scale, for example. If you observe the scaling and ratio of the sizes of the planets, then compared to the Sun even Jupiter will be a baby, and even more so Mercury or even the Earth. The same goes for the distance between the planets' orbits and their inclinations. But we are not claiming astronomical accuracy, but only an A in the subject. Therefore, we will consider some deviations acceptable.
To maintain the approximate ratio of the planets, you can use the following scale:
Here you go, preparatory work completed, we proceed directly to production.
We take the newspaper and crumple it into a ball.
The result was a ball, but it was very uneven, with pieces of newspaper sticking out of it.
Now we wet the newspaper wad with water...
... and then squeeze it out, forming a ball at the same time.
It looks more like a planet, but still not enough.
Now wrap the ball in two or three layers toilet paper…
... and again moisten it with water.
Squeeze out the wad of paper again and form a ball.
It looks more like a planet now. The outer layer of paper seems to hold the newspaper lump together, preventing it from unfolding. Uneven surface creates the effect of the planet's relief.
To finally secure the spherical shape, apply a little glue to your hands and distribute it over the surface of our ball.
The planet is ready, you can send it to drying. Making one planet, with some skill, takes no more than 2-3 minutes. You can dry it with any in an accessible way based on the time you have: with a hairdryer, on a radiator, or generally in a natural way. You adjust the size of a particular planet with the amount of newspaper.
While the planets are drying up, let's take on outer space. It is very good to use a piece of plywood for these purposes. But if there is no plywood, you can use thick cardboard. Cut out a circle of suitable size from it. The appropriate size in this case should be considered the one that your child or you are able to drag to school/kindergarten. By the way, when making planets, you should also focus on the size of “outer space” so that the planets do not turn out too small or too large.
Color the cut out circle according to your artistic abilities. I don’t have any, so I just painted the plywood dark blue with acrylic interior paint on water based. Acrylic paint I didn’t use it on purpose, but simply because I had it.
This paint dries quite quickly, so after about twenty minutes you can apply stars to our celestial disk. The technology is simple: dip a pointed object (for example, a pencil) in white paint and touch it to the disk. You can even draw constellations or star clusters this way.
Hopefully by this point your planets are dry and ready to be painted.
Gouache works well for these purposes. We make rings for Saturn from cardboard.
After coloring, you send the planets to dry again.
After everything has dried, we need to fix the Sun and planets on the disk. If you are making a model of the solar system, so to speak, for home use, you just need to glue the planets. But if you want your work not to be in vain and to be guaranteed to survive transportation, you should use self-tapping screws. Screw the screw from below into the disk...
... and then screw up the planet. The order of the planets from the Sun is as follows: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
It should look something like this.
The solar system model is ready. If you have extra time, you can add additional “goodies” to your model: planetary satellites, comets, asteroids. Your model will only benefit from this.
Good luck with your technical creativity! And don’t forget to involve your children in making these kinds of crafts. After all, this is not only a way to expand their horizons and abilities, but also an excellent option to have a good and unusual time with your child.
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Space beckons with its mysteries and mystery. Let's try on simple examples understand the complex structure of the Universe. Let's make a model of the solar system with the children and go on a journey to distant stars.
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There are a lot of stars and planets in our Universe. They are far from each other, but we can see some even with the naked eye. All planets are different, and only on Earth there is life. Our Earth revolves around the Sun, and with it seven other planets. Some planets have satellites. The Earth, for example, has the Moon.
A simple rhyme will help you remember all the planets of our solar system:
All planets in order
Any of us can name:
One - Mercury,
Two - Venus,
Three - Earth,
Four - Mars.
Five - Jupiter,
Six - Saturn,
Seven - Uranus,
Behind him is Neptune.
He is the eighth in a row.
To this short story found a response in a child's soul, we suggest making a visual model of the solar system, guided by one of the proposed ideas.
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The universe is limitless, but for convenience, let's put part of it in a shoebox. Space in a box is not difficult to make, the materials are very simple.
Remove the cover from shoe box. Invite your child to paint the bottom and sides with the “color of space” - dark blue, black. Make stars from plasticine or colored cardboard and glue them to the walls of the space box. The most important part of the work is to sculpt all the planets of the solar system and the Sun itself. Help your child attach space objects to strings and secure them to the top wall of an upside-down box.
While they were crafting, we remembered the names of the planets, tried to approximately maintain their sizes relative to each other and fix their location relative to the Sun and their neighbors.
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If your child is one of those who likes to study the issue thoroughly, in all the small details, be puzzled appearance planets. Discuss why this or that planet is the color it is and what this is connected with.
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Mercury grey . The surface is rocky with large craters.
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Venus yellow-white. It has this color due to a dense layer of sulfuric acid clouds.
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Earth light blue. The oceans and atmosphere give it this color when viewed from a distance. When you get closer, you can see the colors brown, yellow and green.
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Mars red-orange. It is rich in iron oxides, due to which the soil has a characteristic color.
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Jupiter orange with white splashes. Orange is due to ammonium hydrosulfide clouds, white is due to ammonia clouds. There is no solid surface on Jupiter.
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Saturn light yellow. The red clouds are covered with a thin haze of white ammonia clouds, creating the illusion of a light yellow color. There is no hard surface.
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Uranus pale blue due to methane clouds. There is no hard surface.
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Neptune pale blue. Covered with methane clouds (like Uranus), but due to its distance from the Sun it appears darker. There is no hard surface.
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Pluto light brown. The rocky surface and dirty icy methane crust give it such a hue. Sometimes it is referred to as the 9th planet of the solar system, but it is worth knowing that not so long ago it was excluded from the list of planets and classified as dwarfs. Astronomers have substantiated the reasons for this.
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The planets revolve around the Sun along a certain trajectory. To explain this to your child, make a layout on a horizontal plane. Draw circles and place each planet on its own “treadmill.”
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You can show the approximate distance from the planets to the Sun on a model with wooden skewers.
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You can clearly depict the size of the planets and the distance to the Sun in this way. The planets are wool balls. The sun is the top of the tree. Each planet is on its own “branch”.
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Here is an example of a visual aid that not only explains how everything works in the Universe, but also serves as a decoration for the room, an excellent decoration for.
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You can also find worthwhile manuals on sale that will clearly demonstrate the “relationships” between the planets of the solar system.
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Tell us what layouts you came up with. We are waiting for stories and photos in the comments.
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Visual model of the solar system
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Sun
The Sun is a star that is a hot ball of hot gases at the center of our Solar System. Its influence extends far beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. Without the Sun and its intense energy and heat, there would be no life on Earth. There are billions of stars like our Sun scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy.
Mercury
Sun-scorched Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's satellite the Moon. Like the Moon, Mercury is practically devoid of an atmosphere and cannot smooth out the traces of impact from falling meteorites, so it, like the Moon, is covered with craters. The day side of Mercury gets very hot from the Sun, while on the night side the temperature drops hundreds of degrees below zero. There is ice in the craters of Mercury, which are located at the poles. Mercury completes one revolution around the Sun every 88 days.
Venus
Venus is a world of monstrous heat (even more than on Mercury) and volcanic activity. Similar in structure and size to Earth, Venus is covered by a thick and toxic atmosphere that creates a strong greenhouse effect. This scorched world is hot enough to melt lead. Radar images through the powerful atmosphere revealed volcanoes and deformed mountains. Venus rotates in the opposite direction from the rotation of most planets.
Earth
Earth is an ocean planet. Our home, with its abundance of water and life, makes it unique in our solar system. Other planets, including several moons, also have ice deposits, atmospheres, seasons and even weather, but only on Earth did all these components come together in a way that made life possible.
Mars
Although details of the surface of Mars are difficult to see from Earth, observations through a telescope indicate that Mars has seasons and white spots at the poles. For decades, people believed that the bright and dark areas on Mars were patches of vegetation and that Mars might be suitable place for life, and that water exists in the polar ice caps. When the Mariner 4 spacecraft arrived at Mars in 1965, many scientists were shocked to see photographs of the murky, cratered planet. Mars turned out to be a dead planet. More recent missions, however, have revealed that Mars holds many mysteries that remain to be solved.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system, with four large moons and many small moons. Jupiter forms a kind of miniature solar system. To become a full-fledged star, Jupiter needed to become 80 times more massive.
Saturn
Saturn is the farthest of the five planets known before the invention of the telescope. Like Jupiter, Saturn is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Its volume is 755 times greater than that of the Earth. Winds in its atmosphere reach speeds of 500 meters per second. These fast winds, combined with heat rising from the planet's interior, cause the yellow and golden streaks we see in the atmosphere.
Uranus
The first planet found using a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel. The seventh planet is so far from the Sun that one revolution around the Sun takes 84 years.
Neptune
Distant Neptune rotates almost 4.5 billion kilometers from the Sun. It takes him 165 years to complete one revolution around the Sun. It is invisible to the naked eye due to its vast distance from Earth. Interestingly, its unusual elliptical orbit intersects with the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto, which is why Pluto is inside the orbit of Neptune for about 20 years out of 248 during which it makes one revolution around the Sun.
Pluto
Tiny, cold and incredibly distant, Pluto was discovered in 1930 and was long considered the ninth planet. But after discoveries of Pluto-like worlds that were even further away, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.
The heliocentric model of the solar system is a model in which the Sun is at its center, and the Earth and the rest of the planets rotate around as a result of its gravitational field.
The solar system is a system that includes the Sun, 8 planets and their satellites, asteroids, comets, meteors and space. About 99.9% of the total mass comes from the Sun, and only 0.1% comes from other celestial bodies. Planets with asteroids move around the Sun in elliptical orbits. The science that studies these celestial bodies is astronomy. This model clearly shows the planetary orbits and the order in which they are placed. Today there are many varieties of models.
