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Common questions about this coloring page
Each planet has typical colors. Mercury is grey, Venus yellowish-white, Earth blue-green, Mars reddish-brown. Jupiter and Saturn are striped in yellow and brown tones, Uranus and Neptune bluish. Encourage your child to use these colors for a true-to-life representation.
Start with Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, and work from left to right through the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. This helps reinforce the correct sequence and gives the child a sense of their arrangement.
Saturn's rings are typically light grey to yellowish and consist of ice and rock. To make them stand out, your child can draw fine lines with a pencil or colored pencil and then lightly shade over them. Glitter pens can add a special effect, simulating the ice crystals in the rings.
This coloring page focuses on the eight main planets. If small dots are visible near a planet, these could be moons. Explain that some planets have many moons, like Jupiter and Saturn, while Earth has only one. Dwarf planets like Pluto are not the focus here, as we concentrate on the larger celestial bodies.
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