US Curriculum Alignment
CCSS SL.K.5, NGSS 1-ESS1-1, NGSS 5-ESS1-1
Fan Puzzle – Solar System
- Instant digital download after checkout
- Print at home, as many times as you like
- High-resolution PDF — ready for A4 & US Letter
- Formats
- A4, US Letter
- Type
- Puzzle
A fan puzzle of the solar system: overlapping pieces that pivot open from a single corner to reveal the Sun and planets in their order outward. Fanning and re-stacking the pieces gives small hands rotation and grip practice while fixing the sequence of the planets.
An instant printable digital download, formatted for A4 and US Letter. Print, cut, and fasten the pieces at one corner to assemble.
No invented anatomy.
No blurred or fused details.
The same hand-drawn look across the whole collection — verified against the real species, animal by animal.
“The closer you look, the more it should hold up.”
Every animal is reviewed against real species references before it becomes part of a product. We check the body structure, proportions, joints, feet, paws, hooves, beaks, horns, tails and species-specific markings.
Where toes and claws are visible, their number and arrangement match the real animal. There are no fused paws, missing limbs, unexplained extra toes or shapes that fall apart when you look more closely.
The illustration remains soft and hand-drawn, but the anatomy underneath it must make sense.
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Fanning the overlapping pieces reveals the planets in order, linking fine-motor manipulation with the sequence of bodies out from the Sun.
The pieces open in a fixed sequence, so the child rebuilds the outward order of the planets each time they fan the puzzle.
Grasping and rotating the stacked pieces exercises the pincer grip and wrist rotation that prepare a hand for writing.
Instead of edges meeting on a table, pieces overlap and pivot from a single point, adding rotation and order to ordinary shape-fitting.
