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How do you make a solar system out of candy?
I am a preschool teacher and I am trying to make a solar system out of candy with the children in my class.
I remember doing this when I was younger;we glued candy to foam craft balls of varying sizes. I forgot what candy we used for each planet. I know we used lemon drops for the sun, and I figured we could use twizzlers or something for mars, but I can't remember which candies we used for the other planets.
Does anyone know what I am talking about, or does anyone have good ideas?
You are going to have to sacrifice scale on some level.
Either you will have an extremely huge sun, or a miniscule Mercury.
You will also have quite a problem wiht the distance scale...
Here are the scales:
Distances (in AU)
Sun = 0
Mercury = 0.39
Venus = 0.72
Earth = 1.00
Mars = 1.52
Jupiter = 5.20
Saturn = 9.58
Uranus = 19.23
Neptune = 30.04
Sizes (earth idameter)
Me = 0.382
V = 0.949
E = 1.000
Ma = 0.532
J= 11.209
S= 9.449
U = 4.007
N = 3.883
So, you will need candy that will vary in size from 4/10 (in diameter) the size of whatever you use as the earth, to 11x larger.
If you used an M&M for earth, picture putting 11 of them side by side... for the equivalent of Jupiter... and then think about cutting that M&M in half (actually a little less, closer to 1/3) for the size of Mercury.
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