Preschool Spiders Theme Activities
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Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Preschool spiders activities!
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Spiders Theme Planning Map
Free Spiders Preschool Lesson Plan
Spider Stamping
I love easy crafts where you can use recycled items. For this you will use a toilet paper roll, cut four slits on each side of the bottom, it will make eight legs. Invite the child to dip it in black paint and stamp onto paper. Add googly eyes to your spiders!
Spider Web String PaintingExplore the process of painting with strings to create fun spider webs. This invitation is fun and simple, be sure to provide plenty of materials for children to repeat and create a variety of designs.
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Spooky Marble Spider Web
*I'm a huge fan of process art. This Spooky Marble Spider Web project from Tinkerlab is the perfect way to round up your week.
More Spider Arts & Crafts Ideas
I love crafts that are made from items I have on hand like this Handprint Spider Lacing Card craft from Mom Endeavors. It also combines a fine motor activity-Love that!
I thought these Water Color Resist Spider Web Paintings from i heart arts n crafts were so beautiful!
I remember making spider hats, do you? Check out the tutorial from Education.com
This Spider Craft from Munchkins and Moms is perfect for the littles in your care.
I thought these Water Color Resist Spider Web Paintings from i heart arts n crafts were so beautiful!
I remember making spider hats, do you? Check out the tutorial from Education.com
This Spider Craft from Munchkins and Moms is perfect for the littles in your care.
*Spider Exhibit
*Turn the dramatic play into a spider exhibit this week, with this
Spider exhibit dramatic play pack from Pre-K Printable Fun! |
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Spider Hunting
Turn your dramatic play area into a spider hunt, create spider webs in the dramatic play area and place spiders throughout the web. Encourage the students to catch the spider.
*Set up a Spider Lab
Pretend to be an Arachnologist this week.
*Add Materials
Add pretend spiders, and webs to your building space
Add Yarn
Include yarn or string to your building space, so that your students can turn their structures into spider webs.
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Imagine Learning Center
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Language & Literacy Activities from the Spider Activity Pack
* Spider Web Alphabet Match
Flip and Find Letter Matching: Practice matching letters by flipping a spider letter card and marking the matching letter on the web.
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Pre-Writing PracticeWork on pre-writing practice with this activity. Use a marker or try lining up spiders from left to right.
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*Spider 3-Part Cards
Learn the names of all kinds of fascinating spiders with these 3-part cards!
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Spider Patterning
Learning to identify and extend a pattern are important skills for children to learn before they learn to read. Add this spider patterning activity from the Spiders Activity Pack for hands on practice.
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Spider Names
Write or print out a child's name on a piece of paper, give them plastic spiders to place the spiders on the letters in their name for a spelling activity.
Sophies Masterpiece A Spiders Tale by Eileen Spinelli
Walters Wonderful Web by Joe Hopgood
Are you a Spider? by Judy Allen
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Anansi the Spider: A tale from the Ashanti
Walters Wonderful Web by Joe Hopgood
Are you a Spider? by Judy Allen
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Anansi the Spider: A tale from the Ashanti
*Spider Web Counting Mat
This spider mat is a fun way to work on counting skills and number recognition, older children can also practice addition and subtraction. Try using this mat with fake spiders, black pom poms, or play dough!
This mat is included in my Spiders Activity Pack, download this activity as a free sample in my shop. |
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Spider Web 2D Shape Puzzles
Try this spider shape matching activity for free! Practice matching the 2D shape spider (and shape word) to the 2D shape web!
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Spider Ten FrameProvide students with plastic spiders or spider rings, along with these mats from the Spiders Activity Pack and have the child place the correct amount of spiders in the ten frame based on the number card.
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Spider Counting
Create a sensory bin of cooked spaghetti noodles, place spiders into the sensory bin and invite the child to use tongs to remove the spiders placing them into an empty ice cube tray, this will work on one to one correspondence.
*Parts of a Spider and the Spider Life Cycle
Learn more about the spider life cycle & label spider parts with these activities found in my Spiders Activity Pack
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Spider Sensory Bin
Scoop spiders from this spooky spider fall sensory bin from the eye of a boy.
*Spider Oobleck with tongs
Counting Spiders on the Light Table
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Member Erica printed these counting mats on vellum to use with the light table! What fun!
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Collect a spider web
Check out how Homeschool Life Journal went outside and collected some real spider webs!
Construct a Spider
Invitation to build their own spider with this play dough tray, provide various materials such as googly eyes, pipe cleaners, straws, and play dough to invite the children to build their own spider.
Activities to help preschoolers work on their Fine Motor and Gross Motor Development through play
*Spider Shape Clip CardsShape clip cards are a fun way to practice shape matching while developing fine motor skills, you can find these clip cards in my Spiders Activity Pack
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Spider Ring Stacking
This is a great activity for building those fine motor skills. You will need black play dough for the base, add a pipe cleaner and provide the children with spider rings. Have them stack the rings onto the pipe cleaner, see how many they can fit.
Spider Web WeavingCut slits around a paper plate and invite children to weave with black yarn to create a spider web for fine motor fun!
Extend the fun by adding tweezers and small spiders for kids to move around on the plate. |
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Spider Web Cut
Provide preschooler with white straws, have them cut the draws into smaller pieces and glue onto paper to construct their very own spider web. Cutting practice is a great way to work on fine motor skills.
Make Spiders from DoughMake your own Black Play dough with this recipe and then get to creating spiders!
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Giant Web Crawl
Create your own web in the classroom as an obstacle course for preschoolers to climb through. Encourage them to crawl through the web to pretend they are spiders.
*Spider Web Walking Game
Group Activities, Family Engagement, and other ideas for Educators
*Spider Color Race GameSpider Race Rolling Game: For this collaborative spider race rolling game, children take turns rolling to cube to see which colored spider will make it to the top first!
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