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EnchantedLearning.com Glitter Galaxy Craft More Kids Crafts This craft makes a beautiful picture of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The stars in our galaxy are represented by the glitter (or sand). |
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The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, and our Solar System (the Sun and its nine planets) is located in the outer reaches of the Orion arm.
Our Sun is a star located in the Milky Way Galaxy. There are 200 billion stars in this galaxy (which is just one of a great number of galaxies in the Universe). For more information on the Milky Way, click here.
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Work on some old newspaper. On the black construction paper, draw a rough sketch of our galaxy, the Milky Way using a pencil (or white crayon). Our galaxy is a spiral galaxy with five arms. The center is a dense disk containing many older stars. |
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Put glue along the lines of your galaxy drawing. |
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Sprinkle glitter (or sand) on the paper. Tilt the paper onto some newspaper to shake off the loose glitter (or sand).
You now have a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, the galaxy where we live - each grain of glitter (or sand) represents a single star (like our Sun). Optional: label the arms of the Milky Way and label where our Solar System is located. |
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