Preschool Spiders Theme Activities
Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Preschool spiders activities!
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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!
This fun "Spider" Dough invitation was created by Community member Holly Jennifer. Visit Inner Child Fun for a recipe for black play Dough.
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'm a huge fan of process art. This Spooky Marble Spider Web project from Tinkerlab is the perfect way to round up your week.
This fun "Spider" Dough invitation was created by Community member Holly Jennifer. Visit Inner Child Fun for a recipe for black play Dough.
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'm a huge fan of process art. This Spooky Marble Spider Web project from Tinkerlab is the perfect way to round up your week.
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!
*Turn the dramatic play into a spider exhibit this week, with this free
Spider exhibit dramatic play pack from Pre-K Printable Fun!
Spider exhibit dramatic play pack from Pre-K Printable Fun!
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.
Imagine Learning Center
*Add pretend spiders, and Materials to Create Webs to your Construction Space this week. Include yarn or string to turn their structures into spider webs.
Math Activities from the Spider Activity Pack
Here is a peak at some of the engaging math activities that are included in the Spider Activities Pack
This pack makes it easy to set up math activities and individualize instruction.
This pack makes it easy to set up math activities and individualize instruction.
Spider and Web Color Matching: Help these colorful spiders find their web in this color matching activity.
Spider Counting Cards: How many spiders can you count up? Examine the cards, count up the spiders then find and clip the correct total at the bottom of the card.
Spider Positional Phrases: Preschoolers will love this positional phrases activity mat! Practice positional phrases by reading the sentence strip and then placing the pieces on the mat.
Spider Number Cut & Paste: Work on cutting skills and number word and numeral matching with this fun activity.
Spider Counting Cards: How many spiders can you count up? Examine the cards, count up the spiders then find and clip the correct total at the bottom of the card.
Spider Positional Phrases: Preschoolers will love this positional phrases activity mat! Practice positional phrases by reading the sentence strip and then placing the pieces on the mat.
Spider Number Cut & Paste: Work on cutting skills and number word and numeral matching with this fun activity.
Spider Counting Mats: Member Erica P. printed our counting mats on vellum and laminated them to use on her light table!
Spider Counting Ten Frames: Member Jess T. combined our 10-frame spider counting mats with a yarn web, plastic spiders, and tweezers to create a fun math activity that builds fine motor skills at the same time!
Spider Web Color Match-up: Laminate these color matching web cards for repeat use or try as a cut and paste activity! Either way these cute little spider cards make for a fun color matching activity.
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!
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All these games, and more, can be found in the PKPF Spiders Activity Pack
Spider Counting Ten Frames: Member Jess T. combined our 10-frame spider counting mats with a yarn web, plastic spiders, and tweezers to create a fun math activity that builds fine motor skills at the same time!
Spider Web Color Match-up: Laminate these color matching web cards for repeat use or try as a cut and paste activity! Either way these cute little spider cards make for a fun color matching activity.
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!
Get this activity for free in my shop!
All these games, and more, can be found in the PKPF Spiders Activity Pack
Spider Ten Frame
Provide students with plastic spiders or spider rings, printouts of numbers 1-10 and have the child place the correct amount of spiders in the ten frame based on the number card.
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.
Language & Literacy Activities from the Spider Activity Pack
Flip and Find Letter 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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Parts of a Spider
Set up an invitation using the Label Parts of a Spider and Pre-Writing/Cutting activity pages.
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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
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Flip and Find Letter Matching: Practice matching letters by flipping a spider letter card and marking the matching letter on the web.
Parts of a Spider and Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice: Member Alina set up this fabulous invitation using the Label Parts of a Spider and Pre-Writing/Cutting activity pages.
Spider 3 part cards: Learn the names of all kinds of fascinating spiders with these 3-part cards!
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
Parts of a Spider and Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice: Member Alina set up this fabulous invitation using the Label Parts of a Spider and Pre-Writing/Cutting activity pages.
Spider 3 part cards: Learn the names of all kinds of fascinating spiders with these 3-part cards!
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
Spider Names
Write or print out a child's name on a piece of paper, give them plastic spiders to place the spiders onto 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
Learn more about the spider life cycle & label spider parts with these activities found in our Spider Activity Pack
Scoop spiders from this spooky spider fall sensory bin from the eye of a boy.
Check out this fun Spider Oobleck from Little Bins for Little Hands
Check out this fun Spider Oobleck from Little Bins for Little Hands
Doesn't this spider light table display from Casa Maria's look fabulous?
Check out how Homeschool Life Journal went outside and collected some real spider webs!
Learn more about different spiders with the 3-part cards found in our Spider Activity Pack
Check out how Homeschool Life Journal went outside and collected some real spider webs!
Learn more about different spiders with the 3-part cards found in our Spider Activity Pack
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
This "The Very Busy Spider " cutting activity from Munchkins and Moms is a great way to incorporate a fine motor activity in a Themed unit.
This clever fine motor activity from PreKinders is perfect for spider week. Be sure to visit this post for several other fine motor activities that you can incorporate into your weekly themes.
This fun Giant Sticky Spider Web is featured on Barbara Zab's page. What a fun way to get out some indoor energy.
*Just love this Spider Web Walking Game from No Time for Flashcards
This giant spider web from Teach Preschool is a great group activity.
This clever fine motor activity from PreKinders is perfect for spider week. Be sure to visit this post for several other fine motor activities that you can incorporate into your weekly themes.
This fun Giant Sticky Spider Web is featured on Barbara Zab's page. What a fun way to get out some indoor energy.
*Just love this Spider Web Walking Game from No Time for Flashcards
This giant spider web from Teach Preschool is a great group activity.
*Spider Shape Clip Cards
Shape 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
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 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.
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.
Group Activities, Family Engagement, and other ideas for Educators
Spiders in the Corners Roll & Graph Game
This game is such a fun way to practice color matching and graphing with a small group..
Roll the playing cube, then color in the spider in the matching color column, or use colored spiders like our friends over at Erica's Educare. At the end add up the total for each color.
See more about this activity on my blog post Spiders in the Corners Roll & Graph Game
Roll the playing cube, then color in the spider in the matching color column, or use colored spiders like our friends over at Erica's Educare. At the end add up the total for each color.
See more about this activity on my blog post Spiders in the Corners Roll & Graph Game
*Spider Color Race Game
Spider 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!
