Planet Art

Get creative with fun shaving foam paintings to make puffy planets or ones with beautiful marbled colours.

  • For tips on making puffy planets, click here, and to see a finished project, click here. A schematic of the planets, in order, can be found here, with even more photo inspiration here.
  • For ideas about making marbled planets click here.

If this activity gets you excited about the planets in our solar system, why not explore NASA’s ‘space place’ for interesting facts about the planets (click here) or a short video (click here)

Jupiter: A New Point of View. Credit: Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Check out some of our questions and resources about space for more!

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What might exploring all the different kinds and colours of planets tell us about a God who created them all?