The Solar System Model

Age range

5 years

Developmental Areas

1. Cognitive & Scientific Development: Helps children easily grasp and visualize the shapes, sizes, and sequence of the solar system planets, making any school science lesson simple and fun to understand.
2. Fine Motor & Creative Development: Nurtures artistic expression and creativity through painting the planetary models, while boosting fine motor control and hand-eye coordination through hands-on assembly.

Play Location

Indoors (on an activity table, or a study desk to seamlessly bridge play and education).

How to Play

1. The Building Phase: Work together with your child to assemble the mechanical pieces, rods, and base designed to hold the planets.
2. The Creative Phase: Let your child unleash their imagination by painting each planet. (You can research the actual colors of the planets together to maximize learning).
3. The Scientific Ordering: Guide your child to place the planets in their correct orbital order starting from the Sun (Mercury to Neptune) to reinforce the concept.
4. Use the finished model as a dynamic visual aid for bedtime stories about outer space and astronauts.

Suitable For

1. Mover: Tracking the movement of planets
2. Talker: Listening to interesting information about space

Expert Tip

Around age five, children experience a massive wave of curiosity about the universe and things beyond their immediate sight.