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Love Your Planet! Clay Hearts Solar System Project

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When the weather starts to warm up, we start to get a little obsessed with the night sky. My kids love identifying the plants in the solar system as well as any constellations they can identify by sight. We love transforming our STEM activities into STEAM projects that will last more than just during the lesson.

This clay heart solar system project shows how much you love our planets and would be the perfect showcase in any science fair or space day at school! Kids will love making this simple solar system mobile and displaying it in their bedroom or classroom.

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Make this creative and colorful solar system mobile made from clay hearts! This solar system project is perfect for summer crafts or the science fair!

Scroll to the bottom of the post for more solar system learning ideas to complete a thematic unit!

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Love Your Planet! Clay Hearts Solar System Project

Make this creative and colorful solar system mobile made from clay hearts! This solar system project is perfect for summer crafts or the science fair!

 

What you’ll need to make the clay hearts solar system project:

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  • Salt
  • Flour
  • Acrylic paints
  • Wire hanger
  • String
  • Heart cookie cutter
  • Circle cookie cutter
  • Paintbrushes
  • Hot glue gun and glue sticks
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The first step in this project is making the salt dough. We always use one part flour, 1/2 a part salt, and 3/4 of a part water. This makes the perfect texture for the planets.

Roll out the dough onto a smooth surface and cut out eight hearts and one circle. The circle will become the sun and the hearts will become the eight planets in the solar system.

Bake the salt dough in the oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for about 2 hours or until both sides of the salt piece are dry. Let them cool completely.

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Paint the hearts to look like the planets in the solar system and the circle to look like the sun. Set aside to dry.

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Bend the hanger into a circle shape. Use straight pieces to divide the outer circle into four sections, using twine to hold each section together. You can use hot glue to stabilize the joints until they are tied.

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Cut sections of string so that the planets can hang down from the circle and the sun can hang from the center of the mobile. Add another section of string at the top to make a hanger.

Tie the tops of the string to the mobile and glue the other end of each piece of string to the hearts and sun.

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Hang from a window or another area where you can examine the mobile and use it to study the solar system.

Build a Complete Space Unit Study for Early Learners!

Make this creative and colorful solar system mobile made from clay hearts! This solar system project is perfect for summer crafts or the science fair!
Love planet crafts? This solar system craft transforms melted pony beads into a solar system mobile. Melted pony bead suncatchers will be your new favorite!

Pony Bead Solar System Suncatcher

Learn all about the in these exciting moon activities perfect for a moon unit study! Kids will love learning about the moon with these ideas.

Moon Unit Study

Love watching for stars in the sky and identifying constellations? Learn what to look for with this summer skies marshmallow constellations project!

Marshmallow Constellations

Want to learn about astronomy but don't have a telescope? You can learn about summer constellations with this simple flashlight constellations activity!

Flashlight Constellations 

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About Brenda Priddy

Brenda grew up thinking she hated science. But when her 4-year- old daughter was more interested in reading science facts than fairy tales, Brenda realized she had to learn more. Through simple at-home science experiments, Brenda developed a passion for science and now works as a STEMed advocate with a team of science educators to create hands-on STEM projects and curriculum for kids.

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