Cute Smiling Planets of the Solar System Chart

Eleven round characters with happy faces fill this page, each one labeled underneath in thin hand-lettered capitals. The spiky-edged Sun sits in the top left corner, and the Moon sits across from it in the top right, with the title Planets of Solar System lettered between them. Below are Mercury, Venus and Earth, then Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and finally Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Every face has two small cheek circles, two dot eyes and a curved smile. Saturn is the only one with a tilted ring circling its body. Because the outlines are simple and the spaces are big, young kids can color them without trouble. Try asking children to pick a color for each planet after looking at pictures of the real ones, then read the labels out loud as they finish each circle. It also works as a printable activity for a classroom space unit.