Easy Solar System Craft for Kids

Kids will go crazy over this easy solar system craft for kids!

This week we are sharing space activities and ideas for our Mother Hen Summer that you can do with your kids at home. Space week is so fun! Kids will love learning about our solar system through hands-on crafts and activities.

This splatter paint solar system craft is easy and you will only need a few supplies to get started.

What You’ll Need for Easy Solar System Craft for Kids:

-Black Cardstock or Construction Paper

-Planet Stickers or Planet Pictures

-White, Light Blue, and Yellow Paint

-Paintbrush

-Paper Plate

How to create Easy Solar System Craft for Kids:

1-Begin by adding yellow, blue and white paint to a paper plate.

2-On a surface that is protected, or paint friendly, use a paint brush to flick specks of paint on the black paper.

To do this, just dip the tip of your paint brush in the pain, and holding the paint brush above and a foot away from the paper, flick the tip of the paint brush with your fingertip. This will add cool specks of paint all over the black paper.

Soon it will look like a cool galaxy with stars and glowing planets!

3- Using the Yellow paint, create a large sun on the side of the black paper.

4-After the paint dries, add planet stickers or images. Start with Mercury then the following: Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.