Comments on: Relative Size of the Sun Activity https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/ Educational Learning Materials for Parents and Teachers Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:17:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Michelle https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-306052 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:17:41 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-306052 I am going to copy and past the comment here, but just let me know if you still have questions! "I know Iā€™ve done this calculation in the past with my own kids, because I remember giving them landmarks to tell them how far apart we should place the planets like ā€œat the post officeā€ and ā€œat the hardware storeā€, but I couldnā€™t find it. However, I just redid the calculation really quickly and I think this is rightā€¦ If you were to print out my planets and call the Sun the starting point, then Mercury would be about 70 meters away, Venus would be 130 meters, Earth would be 180 meters, and Mars would be 270 meters. At this point, Iā€™m going to convert to miles, since itā€™s easier to visualize. Jupiter would be about half a mile from the Sun, Saturn would be about 1 mile, Uranus would be about 2.2 miles, and Neptune would be about 3.4 miles. I canā€™t believe I never made a post with the distances! Iā€™m glad the information now exists somewhere on this site so that I donā€™t have to calculate it again in the future! šŸ˜‚ I hope thatā€™s helpful! Sorry fo the delay!"]]> In reply to Jen.

Hi Jen! I actually just did this calculation recently for someone else in the comments of my blog post about Pluto! I’m so sorry, I meant to find it and respond to you weeks ago and then I forgot. šŸ™ˆ I am going to copy and past the comment here, but just let me know if you still have questions!

“I know Iā€™ve done this calculation in the past with my own kids, because I remember giving them landmarks to tell them how far apart we should place the planets like ā€œat the post officeā€ and ā€œat the hardware storeā€, but I couldnā€™t find it. However, I just redid the calculation really quickly and I think this is rightā€¦ If you were to print out my planets and call the Sun the starting point, then Mercury would be about 70 meters away, Venus would be 130 meters, Earth would be 180 meters, and Mars would be 270 meters. At this point, Iā€™m going to convert to miles, since itā€™s easier to visualize. Jupiter would be about half a mile from the Sun, Saturn would be about 1 mile, Uranus would be about 2.2 miles, and Neptune would be about 3.4 miles. I canā€™t believe I never made a post with the distances! Iā€™m glad the information now exists somewhere on this site so that I donā€™t have to calculate it again in the future! šŸ˜‚ I hope thatā€™s helpful! Sorry fo the delay!”

]]> By: Jen https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-305210 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:36:17 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-305210 Have you ever done the scale to distance from the sun, also? I think it would be neat to do this project – but then show the distance of the planets compared to the sun’s size, outside. That would be neat! If you have provided that information somewhere, I would LOVE that for my middle and high schoolers (homeschool group)

]]> By: Michelle https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-230886 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:07:36 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-230886 In reply to Elizabeth.

Yay! I’m so glad your daughter enjoyed the sun activity! :)

]]> By: Elizabeth https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-227073 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:32:10 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-227073 Thank you so much! Kids and adults learned so much! We made our sun out of a yellow king size flat sheet. My daughter took it to school folded and the surprises came with each unfold.

]]> By: SolarGenic https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-153659 Thu, 20 May 2021 10:13:46 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-153659 Great efforts !

]]> By: Fun in the Sun! | https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-107534 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:24:40 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-107534 […] by printing and cutting out the printable planets from research parent. She has already made the planet pictures the correct size in relation to each […]

]]> By: Super Solar System: The Sun – Toomanyflower's Travels https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-54781 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 06:01:36 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-54781 […] started a lesson called Relative Size of the Sun, which is fantastic and very hands on. We actually had no room to display this as it was sooooobig, […]

]]> By: Michelle https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-6402 Mon, 02 May 2016 06:14:58 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-6402 In reply to Katherine.

You’re welcome. I’m so glad you found it useful. :)

]]> By: Katherine https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-6391 Mon, 02 May 2016 01:20:18 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-6391 Great! Thank you for the link to the relative size planets. Have been wanting to do something like this for awhile … this made it super easy!

]]> By: Michelle https://researchparent.com/relative-size-of-the-sun-activity/#comment-5986 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:15:27 +0000 https://researchparent.com/?p=8455#comment-5986 In reply to Paul Ian Cross.

I’m so glad. I hope he enjoys it. Let me know if you have any questions!

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