Supplies

Directions

Gather 9 pieces of paper, one for each of the planets and for the sun. They can either be construction paper in the color of each of the planets or printer paper that you can color in yourself!
Cut out circles from the pieces of paper to represent each of the planets. The largest should be the Sun, followed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, and lastly Mercury.
Take these cutouts somewhere outside where you will have lots of space to spread them out.
Put your Sun down at the far left of your open space. For our purposes, one step will represent one astronomical unit.
Put Mercury half a step from the sun and Venus right after it. Earth goes to the right of Venus and should be one full step away from the Sun.
Your Mars will go a step and a half from the Sun while Jupiter will be 5 steps from the Sun.
Place your Saturn 10 steps from your sun and your Uranus 19 steps from your sun.
There’s a big gap between Uranus and Neptune- put your Neptune 30 feet from where your Sun is to finish up your backyard solar system!