Interplanetary Hike

After making Easter bunny ears, we explored the solar system by walking through a scale model of it. I made flags with construction paper and bamboo sticks. The flags represented the sun and the planets. From the sun, the 36 million miles to Mercury was represented by 1 step, the 67 million miles to Venus was represented by 2 steps, etc. After walking the 103 steps to walk all the way to Pluto (yeah, yeah...I know Pluto is now a dwarf planet), Carson was shocked to find out Alpha Centauri would be 200 miles away. I put it into perspective and told him "about the distance to Grandda's ranch). I think he got the point!