 Hello, everyone. My name is Evelyn. I'm a staff member here at the Long Beach Public Library. I'm very excited to be crafting with you today. Before I get started, I did want to mention if you haven't signed up already for our summer reading program, make sure to do so. It's going to be filled with lots of fun activities for your summer. And then you'll be able to sign up at LongBeach.BeanStack.org. And if you haven't signed up already, join us. If you do need the code, it's going to be Nebula, where you'll be inputting that into Beanstack to make sure you get points and win prizes along the way. Okay, so let's get started. Today's craft, we're going to be making a mobile solar system. It's gonna like sell cool like this. It'll be a great addition for your room decor. And then also it could be a great gift for a family or loved one. Let's get also started talking about the supplies you're going to need. We're going to need a stick and that's mainly going to hold your solar system up. I bought this one at Home Depot and it was 50 cents. You can also go to your neighborhood, walk around. I found these branches from trees and I also went to my local park and I found this really cool one, which I really like. And then there's also smaller ones. You can make a smaller solar system. It's totally up to you. Note, all of this is completely customizable. If you want to use stuff you have at home, feel free to do so. Anything you have at home will work. This one, yours might look different from mine. And that's totally okay. So I'm going to be using, let's see, I think I'm going to be using this medium one for mine. And then we're also going to need glue. I use a hot glue gun. It's very much easier to do with the hot glue gun because it's just the yarn gets on there quicker. But if you don't have that, you can use a regular glue stick. Just know that it's going to take you a little longer. You're just going to need to hold it on there for it to dry off and then be able to hang. But that's totally okay. And then we're also going to need string. I use some leftover yarn I had at home. We're going to need nine for the planet. So we have eight planets and then our sun. So we're going to need nine strings and then one long one that's going to hang the entire thing. So regular string works. If you have leftover ribbon at home, even shoelaces, if you have about nine, that would totally work. So remember, you can customize this, check with an adult. Maybe they have something at home that you can use before you go off and find your string. And then also we're going to need paper. I use paper, card stock paper, because it's just less flimsier than regular paper. If you have regular paper, you can totally get a cardboard. Just cut it up. And then that way it's not as flimsy than the card stock paper. So you can do that. And then I use some jars. And this is mainly to trace and make my circles. You can freehand that, but I'm not really great at making circles. So I use some jars, different sizes. And I even use this tiny one to make tiny planets. I did want to mention we are going to need one large circle. That's going to be our sun. We're going to need two medium planets circles. So that's Saturn and Jupiter. And then we're going to need four smaller ones, which is Venus, Earth, Uranus and Neptune. And then our two smallest planets. I'm calling these the teeny tiny ones, Mars and Mercury, because they are the smallest planets. And then for Saturn, it does have a ring around the planet. I basically cut up two seas, trace them, and then that'll wrap around the planet. And it'll make the ring for when we do that part. And then lastly, for our supplies, black foam paper. You can use regular card stock paper. Color that black and cut up stars. I kind of like the black foam because it kind of has a cool, soft effect. But whatever you want to do, I have all my stars right here ready. We're going to get started. This is the stick I'm going to be using. I have all of my string already cut up. As far as length, you can kind of just do one sample and see how long you want it. They don't have to all match up once you do them. You do want them kind of long. And then you can go down and cut them. That's kind of what I did towards the end. So I'm just going to start wrapping these up to just tie them. And we're just going to tie them. You can do about two knots. That's about perfect. I hung up my string. We should have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Perfect. So this is ready. I really like the little curve effect it has going on. Okay, next we're going to start painting our planets. So let's start first one. It's going to be our far left. That's going to be the sun. And let me pull out the sun. So some facts about the sun. The sun is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. It's a hundred times bigger than the earth. That's insane. And it also takes about eight minutes for the light to reach earth. When drawing, you can use your also supplies for crafting, which is going to be your crayons, markers, whatever you have at home. I used crayons. I don't know, I just found it easier with crayons. So I used a little yellow and orange to kind of give that hint of the natural sun. This is what mine looks like. Yours does not have to look exactly like mine. Be creative. Challenge yourself to, you know, create the sun that you think would be up in the sky. So I created this one. And then later, we're also going to add the names of the planets. And actually, I'll add them as I go. I'll just use, I'm going to be using my colors. So we have the sun. So that'll be the first one hanging. And this is when you also decide what way do you want it to go? I'm going to do it this way. And then also notes, all the planets, they're kind of wavering. They don't have to be in line exactly. Feel free to move those around however you'd like. So I'm going to put this one kind of towards the middle bottom. Next, we're going to add mercury. Here's mercury. And then some facts about mercury. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. So that's the second planet. And then also mercury has no moons or rings. When coloring it, I did different shades of gray and kind of like striped it. And this is what we got. So we have Venus. And then let's learn some facts about Venus. Venus is the second planet from the sun and the third brightest object in the earth sky. Venus is the closest planet to earth. And then for Venus, it's different shades of orange with some grays and tans in between. We're going to be at a familiar with this one. It's earth. And let's learn some facts about earth. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets. It is the only planet not named after a mythological being. And 70% of earth is covered by water. And then we're going to add, you know, 70% blue, which is water, and then the rest is green. Earth is also called the red planet. Mars has huge dust storms and polar ice caps. Its moons are called phobos and demos. So because all of those dust storms and everything going on on Mars, we're going to add different shades of red. So here we go. We have lines also. See seven moons. It's the fourth brightest object in our solar system. And its great spot is an enormous storm over 300 years old. So I kind of drew kind of like the tannin spot for that. And then you're going to add light tans, a little bit of orange and grays and black on that one. It's my favorite planet, especially since we have our cool ring. So we have those seas that I told you about earlier. We're going to color those. The Saturn itself, you want to do different shades of yellow, some gray. I really like this one. I did up here. It's different shades of gray, lines, and then a really gold ring around. And you're going to glue the seas together and then grab my glue stick. And we're going to glue it on the planet. So I cut my ring here, but I didn't cut it there. I kind of like how it looks not cut. So it's totally up to you. Next we have Uranus. Some facts about Uranus. This was Uranus was discovered in 1781. It is the coldest planet in our solar system. And Uranus has 13 rings. That's very cool. Because it's the coldest planet, I did this one light blue. And then the last planet we're hanging is Neptune. And Neptune has darker shades. And I did darker lines on Neptune. It's the eighth planet from the sun. Neptune has 14 moons and three major rings named Adams, Laverre, and Galet. So cool. Looks pretty cool. Don't forget to hang the string. And we can do that right now, actually. So hanging against the wall. It should, if you turn it over, all the planets will show nicely. But I hope you have fun joining us for today's crop. This is your mobile solar system. Make sure to have fun doing this with family. And yeah, enjoy the rest of your summer. We're going to be crafting a lot in our summer reading program. We hope you join us for those. Thank you.