Everyday comparison to your reader learn the scale of the planets in our solar system

As we were reading all our books for #SpaceWeek I ran across this amazing comparison. Did you know that you can show the scale of the planets with FRUIT?! 🤯🤯🤯

My kiddos are pretty young to digest the size and scope of the universe…. Let’s be real, I am too young or finite to understand the size and scope of the universe! Comparing the size of each planet to a piece of fruit was the perfect thing to give all of us a reality check!

With fruits that I have on hand (and one or two extras grabbed at the local grocery) we were able to line up the planets in their distance from the sun order.

Mercury and Earth are approximately the same size – the size of a grape or small cherry tomato. Venus and Mars are the size of a blueberry, but I couldn’t buy just 2 blueberries so I grabbed some dried cranberries to fill those spaces.

Jupiter was everyone’s favorite. It is so GIANT in comparison to the rest. Plus then we served the watermelon to our Community Group and my daughter went around saying “Did you know you’re eating Jupiter?” It got lots of confused looks and laughs as she explained the project we had done!

Saturn is a large grapefruit, Uranus is an orange, and Neptune an apple. All very approachable and easy to find foods!

Check out my little fact checker measuring to see if I picked tomatoes that were the correct size 😂

“You did a good job picking fruit mama” she says.

I say that’s a win!

Happy Comparing!