The Marbled Planets among the stars is one of my daughters favorite art project and I’d love to share this with you and help you make your own with your kids. We loved to create the classic shaving cream marbles effect on the planets and then set them on a piece of A4 black cardboard painted with glitter glue to give a special space effect to our beautiful Marbled Planet Artwork!
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Making the Marbled Planets Preschool Space Craft
Supplies Needed:
– Black and white cardstock paper A4 size
– Acrylic paint in many colors
o We had silver and purple for Jupiter, red, orange and gold for Venus and green and blue for Earth
– Shaving Cream (the white fluffy one, not gel)
– 3 foil containers, round would be ideal
– Rubber spatula (the one for cooking)
– Toothpicks
– Squeegee
– Gold or Purple glitter glue (ours is from Elmer’s)
– Paint Brush
– Glue stick
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ART WORK:
1. Start by cutting 3 different sizes circles on your white cardstock paper.
2. Squirt shaving cream into the foil containers. Use your spatula to spread it uniformly.
3. Squirt various colors of the acrylic paint over the shaving cream.
4. Use the toothpicks to creates lines up and down, left and right. The design will be making, it will be transferred on your white circles (planets)
5. Press the white paper circles down the paint and rub slightly all over the circle to get the colors stick all over the circle.
6. Carefully remove the circle from the paint. Let them rest for a couple of minutes and then use the squeegee to remove the excess. You are now left with a beautifully marbled design.
7. Paint the black cardstock paper with glitter glue and add your marbled planets to the black cardstock to create the impression that these planets are in space.
8. Optional: sprinkle some gold glitter to make your project look like it has millions of stars. We skipped this step.
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