h a l f b a k e r yThere goes my teleportation concept.
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The box would be shaped like the lower say, 15% of the sun to give the comparison, picture a smile shape, which would be appropriate because inside, from the middle to the ends, arranged by size you'd get:
1- Jupiter cookie
2- Saturn cookie
3- Neptune and Uranus (get your mind out of the gutter)
macaroons on either side of the big Jupiter and Saturn cookies.
4- Earth and Venus M&Ms.
5- Mercury and Mars jelly beans on the ends.
They'd all be printed with appropriate frosting or coating representing the surface of each planet with the name printed as well.
Alternatively you could do the portion thing with Jupiter and Saturn to get the treats closer in size. You'd still get the relative size comparison doing the same thing with the big gas planets as with the sun box. Could just do all cookies then, no need to do the jelly bean thing for the little guys.
Kids learn about the planets in a fun way.
Like so
https://starlust.org/how-big-is-the-sun/
[doctorremulac3, Dec 24 2023]
These only with correct relative sizes.
https://cookieconne...em-by-peony-cookies
Larger planets showing only a portion but such that size can be extrapolated by shape given and the Sun being the box shaped like the lower 15% or so.. [doctorremulac3, Dec 24 2023]
Planet cookie cutters to scale
https://www.etsy.co...anet-cookie-cutters
But they left out the sun . [a1, Dec 24 2023]
The Planets Today
https://www.theplanetstoday.com/
[a1, Dec 24 2023]
Like this, but with cookies
https://www.jpl.nas...scale-solar-system/
[a1, Dec 26 2023]
Earth-chan is not flat
https://pbs.twimg.c...rmat=jpg&name=small
[Voice, Dec 31 2023]
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It should come with layout instructions to build a scale model of the solar system. You could walk or ride them to each planet, then they get to eat it. With a big marshmallow sun at the end |
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That's friggin brilliant. |
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So you open the box and say "Oh no! It's empty! Ohh, here's a map. 5 paces to mercury." The parent walks 5 paces to a very obviously not well hidden mercury cookie, half way behind a plant or something, then another 5 paces to Venus etc. |
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You could customize the map to your house, there might be a website you log into. |
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I would absolutely buy this for the kids. |
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Obviously the distances between the cookies would be unrelated to the scale of the cookies. |
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Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to fit the solar system map in a single house. |
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Assumed that was obvious. |
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But it would be cool to go on a picnic at a park where you could pace off the distances true to the scale of the cookies. |
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Just down the block. If Mercury is 5 paces from the sun, Neptune is 77. Though you'd have to go the right direction - it's not often they're all lined up in a row. Maybe match the positions of the planets on the day you gave them the box. See "The Planets Today" (link) for the right layout. |
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The plan (obviously the sun would need to be represented by a big pinata, not a single marshmallow) is to leave one's premises entirely, having left the items on public property. |
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//Why stay in the house?// |
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That's a whole new great idea. Okay, since they'd be placed outside, maybe on top of a tree branch or something, not too well hidden, you'd need to wrap them so the birds and squirrels don't get to it, but make it into a treasure hunt taking that map with you. Once you paced off the distance between Jupiter and Saturn when the kids found it you could sit down and read about Saturn while sharing the Saturn shaped cookie. |
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I don't think a spherical cookie is still a cookie. At a certain degree of spheroidness it becomes a cake. |
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Did I say spherical? I meant round. Already have to deal with the issue of massive amounts of cookie due to the gas planets. |
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You said //Saturn shaped//. If you meant something else I'm sure you would have said it. |
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Well, Saturn shaped and flat. It’s a cookie. |
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//Saturn shaped and flat.// |
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There’s flat Earthers, there’s probably flat Saturners too. |
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