How to Draw The Planets Step by Step Drawing Space for Kids

Drawing the planets can be a fun and easy way to learn about our solar system while creating colorful artwork. You don’t need to be an artist to create amazing planet drawings. Simple materials, such as paper, pencils, and colored pencils, are all you need to get started. Each planet has its special features that make it interesting to draw, from Saturn’s famous rings to Jupiter’s swirling storm colors.

How to Draw the Solar System

How to Draw the Planets

Here, you will learn how to draw the planets and create complete solar system pictures that kids will love making. You’ll learn the correct sizes, colors, and order of all the planets so your drawings look realistic and teach you about space at the same time.

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Drawing Planets for Kids

Drawing planets helps kids learn about space while having fun with art. Each planet has special features that make it unique, and following the right order makes it easier to remember.

Understanding the Planets’ Order in the Solar System

Learning the planets in order helps you draw them correctly. Start with Mercury, the smallest planet closest to the sun.

The eight planets go in this order:

Mercury – closest to the sun
Venus – hottest planet
Earth – our home planet
Mars – the red planet
Jupiter – biggest planet
Saturn – planet with rings
Uranus – tilted planet
Neptune – farthest from the sun

You can remember this order with a fun saying: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos.” Each first letter matches a planet name.

When you draw the solar system, put the sun on the left side. Then draw each planet getting farther away as you move right across your paper.

Solar System Directed Drawing

Drawing Each Planet with Free Printables: From Mercury to Neptune

Start by drawing circles for each planet. Mercury and Mars should be small circles. Venus and Earth are medium-sized. Jupiter needs to be the biggest circle you can draw.

Mercury appears as a gray circle with small craters visible as dots. Venus is yellow or orange and very bright. Earth has blue oceans and green and brown landforms.

Mars is red with some darker spots. Jupiter has colorful stripes going across it. You can use orange, brown, and white stripes.

Saturn is special because it has rings around it. Draw a circle, then add oval rings going around the middle. Uranus is light blue or green. Neptune is dark blue.

Grab your Directed Drawing free printables with planet outlines. These help you trace perfect circles and focus on adding details instead of worrying about shape.

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Adding Distinctive Features and Details

Each planet has unique features that make it easily recognizable. Adding these details makes your drawing look more real.

Earth needs continents and oceans. Draw wavy shapes for land and leave blue spaces for water. Add some white swirls for clouds.

Jupiter has a large red spot that resembles a storm. Draw an oval shape on the planet and color it red or orange.

Saturn‘s rings are its most important feature. Make some rings thicker than others. The rings should look like they go behind and in front of the planet.

Mars has polar ice caps at the top and bottom. Add small white areas at these spots. You can also draw some lines to show canyons and valleys.

Step by Step Drawing for Kids

Coloring Techniques to Bring Planets to Life

Use bright colors to make your planets stand out. Metallic markers work great on black paper because the colors pop off the page.

Earth looks best with bright blue for oceans and green or brown for land. Add white for clouds and ice caps. Jupiter needs orange, brown, and cream colors for its stripes.

Mars should be red or rust-colored with some darker red spots. Saturn can be yellow or light orange with gray or white rings.

Use light pressure when coloring to blend colors smoothly. Color in small circles to create texture on rocky planets like Mercury and Mars.

For space backgrounds, use black paper and add tiny white dots for stars. You can make stars by dabbing metallic markers on the paper quickly.

Step by Step Solar System Directed Drawing

Drawing the Complete Solar System for Kids

Drawing the solar system is a fun way to learn about space. You can create all eight planets and the sun in one picture.

Start by drawing the sun as a big circle on the left side of your paper. Make it large since the sun is much bigger than the planets.

Draw the planets in order from the sun:

Mercury (smallest)
Venus
Earth (blue and green)
Mars (red)
Jupiter (biggest planet)
Saturn (with rings)
Uranus (with rings)
Neptune (blue)

Place each planet at different distances from the sun. The planets closer to the sun should be smaller. Jupiter should be the largest planet you draw.

Make it colorful!

Add special features to make your solar system drawing more realistic:

Draw flames around the sun
Add rings to Saturn
Make Earth blue and green
Color Mars red
Draw stars in the background

You can draw curved lines to show the orbits where planets travel around the sun. These are the paths planets follow.

Label each planet with its name. This helps you remember the order of planets in our solar system.

Use bright colors to make your drawing pop. The sun should be yellow or orange. Each planet has its own special colors that make it unique.

Drawing the solar system teaches you about our space neighborhood while having fun with art.

Solar System Drawing for Kids

How to Draw The Planets for Kids

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