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There’s No Place Like Space Storybook Activity

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October 29, 2014

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I hope you joined us this month for Beyond Our Planet Poppins Book Nook Book Activity! I don’t know about your kiddos, but my love learning about space and our planets. Even in the classroom, as soon as I began our space unit my student’s faces would just light up and I knew that I had their attention the entire time! For this months book, my girls chose There’s No Place Like Space Storybook Activity! by Trish Rabe from The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library collection. This post may contain affiliate links.

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There’s No Place Like Space Storybook Activity

We love There’s No Place Like Space! It’s the perfect book to teach about the Solar System. The book takes the readers into an adventure to visit the planets, the starts, and the sun! Giving important details of each planet individually.

There's No Place Like Space Storybook Activity

For our storybook activity, we decided that we wanted to recreate the solar system using glue and glitter! Yes, you heard me! GLITTER! My girls love glitter and who am I kidding, so do I!

Materials Needed

  • Elmer’s glue
  • Wax paper
  • Glitter (to match each individual planets)
  • A black long piece of construction paper (tape two large pieces together)
  • White crayon or silver Sharpie

Glue Solar Systems

Instructions

To create our planets we use glue and glitter. On a sheet of wax paper, we poured craft glue and the girls used brushes to make their planets according to the size they thought they were.

They then poured glitter on each planet, using colors that they think would match the best to the planets of our solar system. I think we all enjoyed this part very much. Matching glitter to our planets and mixing together colors to try to recreate the closest match we could to each individual planet.

Glitter Planets Craft

Leave your planets over a period of two nights to dry. You want to make sure that they are fully dried before peeling off the paper. If they are still wet, they will tear. When planets are dried slowly and carefully peel them off the wax paper.

Solar System Kids Arts & Craft

Once we had all of our pieces pulled off the wax paper we created the solar system on black construction paper. Using our iPad I pulled up a picture of the solar systems and let the girls glue on their planets following the picture chart I gave them.

I also printed up all the planets names, cut them out, and then let them label each one. I loved watching Kaelyn help her little sister find the correct label for each planet. It really showed me that she understood and enjoyed the lessons we did.

Solar System Lesson for Kids

I’m pretty sure the girls really enjoyed and learned a lot about our solar system! I hoped you joined in on all the fun!

There's No Place Like Space Storybook Activity

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Victoria is a mom of two beautiful girls and wife to a supportive husband living in sunny Florida! She's on a mission to help moms create purposeful motherhood without the chaos. She loves to share simple family-friendly recipes, inspirational parenting tips, and ways to create habits for a peaceful home.

Comments

  1. Samantha @ Stir the Wonder says

    November 2, 2014 at 11:21 am

    Love those Cat in the Hat learning books and this activity!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      November 2, 2014 at 1:25 pm

      We do too 🙂

      Reply
  2. Momma Jo says

    November 3, 2014 at 4:15 am

    I am IN LOVE with your solar system craft! What a unique idea. Thanks for sharing

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      November 4, 2014 at 4:25 pm

      Oh, YAY! Thanks so much!!

      Reply
  3. Ashley says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    Love those sparkly planets!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      November 6, 2014 at 6:57 am

      Thanks Ashley! We had lots of fun making them and really didn’t know how they would turn out 🙂

      Reply
  4. Jill says

    November 10, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    I love the solar system the girls made! It is so eye catching and colorful!
    Thank you for helping to bring a spoonful of reading fun to the Poppins Book Nook this month!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      November 16, 2014 at 6:09 pm

      Thanks Jill!

      Reply
  5. Acadnets Infocom says

    June 26, 2018 at 3:21 am

    i am IN LOVE with your solar system craft! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
    • Victoria says

      June 26, 2018 at 10:46 am

      Thank you so much! It’s so easy and fun to make!

      Reply

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