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| Materials: Yellow Tissue Paper Pipe Cleaner Fishing Line Stapler |
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| After learning about the planets, don't just stop there! Teach children all about space exploration too! |
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- Talk with children about directional cues.
and sets in the West. Give them tangible
reminders for how to find North. - Read about creation, how God made the
sun.
| This shiny sun makes a great classroom decoration, and provides some fun demonstrations as well! Children love to hold the sun while you hold a globe and "revolve" and "rotate" your way around them! |
| Step 1 Choose the colors you'll be using for your sun. I picked gold, shiny yellow, and light yellow. |
| Step 2 Stack up the colors alternating them as you like. 10 sheets works out about right. |
| All Done! Hang up your sun and enjoy the beautiful day! This makes a fantastic classroom |
| Step 3 Fold the sheets up accordion style. (Like your making a paper fan) |
| Step 4 Use your pipe cleaner to tie a knot around the middle of the papers. Make a little loop if you like to make hanging it up easier. |
| Step 5 Fan it out to look like a girls hair bow. |
| Step 6 Start to pull apart and fluff each layer of paper by separating them. |
| Step 7 For each side, gather the papers at the top to form a peak. Turn over and repeat with the bottom as well. |
| Step 8 The Pipe cleaner is in the middle, and we're looking down on the top peaks. They are stapled together at both the tops and the |
| Step 9 Take both of the stapled tops and bring them together. Staple again. |
| Step 10 Tie a piece of fishing line or dental floss to the pipe cleaner. Make sure that the string the bottom peaks. |
| Step 11 You should now have a ball shape. Fluff out the paper to cover any gaps. |
