Last Sunday, Mr K and I spent an hour to paint 9 polystyrene eggs. We tried to create our solar system by painting each egg a different colours as close to their own colours as depicted in our astronomy book. We have the Sun and 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
After they all dried, we used a wooden skewer to poke through and thread an elastic string. I also used a plastic plate as the top to hold onto the eggs. Now it is ready as our solar system mobile!
[…] Do you know how the universe started more than 10 billion years ago with a Big Bang? Also do you know that the sun is one of a 100 billion stars in this one galaxy? I have a space mad son who loves to learn about the solar system and one day when he grows up, he wants to become an astronaut. Earlier in April, we had even turned Easter eggs into the solar system. […]