Felt Solar System

Felt Solar System


 Michael and I got out the felt solar system the other day and lined up the planets with their labels.  Michael likes to hold one of the planets or the sun while we talk or read  books about each one.  It is not to scale but it gives him an idea of what they look like and has the names sewn on labels to match to each planet. 

 

 For example, Venus is very hot so we chose white as the hottest color while Mercury is very rocky so we chose a dark gray to reveal this.  I added green continents and blue for the oceans on Earth.

 Jupiter is lots of gases and the colors almost seem to swirl about so we chose red and yellow while we made a yellow ring around Saturn for recognition.  Uranus we chose a cool gray and Neptune has shades of blue in it.

Michael likes to dress up in his space suit and pretend to fly to planets or the moon.  I will post later about the moon felt mat I made for him to explore.  I like his curiosity in learning about new things.  There is so much to explore and to be shown it is exciting to watch him take it all in.