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Sugar Cookie Solar System

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We have been learning about the Solar System and since the boys love to cook, I thought it would be fun for them to help make some a sugar cookie solar system. Our solar system is full of planets, the sun, moons, comets and stars as well as a long list of other things. This is a fun way to learn the order of the eight planets in our solar system.

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We have been learning about the Solar System and since the boys love to cook, I thought it would be fun for them to help make some a sugar cookie solar system.

 

First we made the sugar cookies and when they were cool, we iced them. I used a cookie cutter to cut out the direct circle shapes. We made eight different coloured icing colours, mixing these to get the colours we wanted. The eight colours we used were: grey, black, red, yellow, orange, blue, white and green.

We have been learning about the Solar System and since the boys love to cook, I thought it would be fun for them to help make some a sugar cookie solar system.

Here is a list of how we mixed the colours for the icing for each of our planets:

  • Mercury – grey, yellow and orange
  • Venus – yellow and orange
  • Earth – green and blue
  • Mars – red
  • Jupiter – yellow, orange and white
  • Saturn – yellow, orange and red for the rings
  • Uranus – blue and green and then blue for the rings
  • Neptune – blue

We used yellow and orange for the sun and grey for the moon.

We also added a little bit of this Twinkle Shining Powder to all our cookies, to give them a little shine!

Here is a closer looks at the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon and Mars

 We have been learning about the Solar System and since the boys love to cook, I thought it would be fun for them to help make some a sugar cookie solar system.

 And of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

We have been learning about the Solar System and since the boys love to cook, I thought it would be fun for them to help make some a sugar cookie solar system. 

You could also make moons for each of the other planets, though some of them have a lot, which is why we only made the moon for planet Earth.

Other Space and Solar System ideas

  • Phases of the Moon Flip Book
  • Galaxy Shirt
  • Swirly-Whirly Planets
  • Watercolour Solar System
  • Space Cards
  • Space Activity Pack
  • Space Explorers Activities
  • Solar Eclipse Printables
  • Phases of the Moon Activities
  • Printable Constellation Book
  • Constellation Cards

Sugar Cookie Recipe

This delicious sugar cookie recipe can be cut into any shape you like. Making them into the shapes of the planets in the solar system is a great way for young children to study space.
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Servings 20 biscuits

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 3 cups plain flour

Instructions
 

  • 1. Preheat oven to 175˚C
  • 2. Cream butter and sugar until smooth
  • 3. Add essence and egg and beat well
  • 4. Combine the baking powder and flour in a separate bowl, slowly add the wet ingredients and mix well. If it gets too stiff, turn out onto countertop surface and finish kneading with wet hands.
  • 5. Divide the dough into workable batches and roll out on a floured surface.
  • 6. Cut into shapes.
  • 7. Bake for 6-10 minutes and let cool a little on tray before transferring to a cooling rack.

Notes

This is a no-chill dough, but if you do chill it, leave it on the bench for 10 minutes before working with it.
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 We have been learning about the Solar System and since the boys love to cook, I thought it would be fun for them to help make some a sugar cookie solar system.

We played a fun game with these Sugar Cookies Solar System cookies too. We made multiple cookies of each planet, sun and moon. The boys would choose one cookie and before they ate it, they would recite one fact about the planet, sun or moon cookie they were holding. If they didn’t know any facts, they would do some quick research before taking a cookie.


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  1. Ann

    April 18, 2015 at 9:56 am

    How did you cut the planet shapes? Cookie cutters? Thanks…these are super cute!

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    • Stacey

      April 18, 2015 at 2:30 pm

      Hi! I used cookie cutters for the shapes. For the planets with the rings around them, I used the cookie cutters to make in imprint into the dough and then used a knife to cut out the shape and ring.

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