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Incy Wincy Spider & Little Miss Muffet

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Nursery Rhymes Series Part 1: We have decided to do a series of activity and crafts articles to help you and your toddler make the most of the Nursery Rhymes we all know and love. Here we are looking at two that refer to spiders: Incy Wincy Spider and Little Miss Muffet. (more…)

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6 Sorts of Spiderwebs

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Spaghetti Spiderwebs

What you need:

Cooked Spaghetti (cold)
White glue
Wax paper

What to do:

  1. Children dip the spaghetti into the glue and arrange the pieces onto the wax paper.
  2. When the spaghetti has dried, carefully peel the “web” off of the wax paper.
  3.  Add a small plastic or paper spider to complete the look.
  4. Hang from the ceiling or against a window.

* If you want different coloured webs, use a few drops of food colouring in the water when you boil the spaghetti!

 

Puffy Paint Spiderwebs

What you need:

  • Equal parts of Flour, salt and water
  • Squeeze bottles
  • Black paper

  • Spider (homemade or plastic)

What to do:

  1. Mix equal parts of flour, salt, and water in a large bowl.
  2. Pour the mixture into squeeze bottles.
  3. Give each child a black paper plate or a piece of black construction paper.
  4. Let the children squeeze the white puffy paint onto the black paper.
  5. When the puffy paint dries, it will look like glittery spider webs.
  6. Then add a cut-out or plastic spider to the web.

*You could make the webs colourful by adding a few drops of food colouring to the mix.

Glitter Spider Webs

 

What you need: 

  • Black paper

  •  glitter in desired colours

  • PVA glue or other runny glue in squeeze bottles

What to do:

  1. Draw a web on a piece of black paper (an x across the whole paper with a spiral or circles starting in the middle of the x an extending to the edges of the paper). 
  2. Cover the lines with glue.
  3. Sprinkle on some silver glitter, and shake off the excess. 
  4. Then attach a spider to the middle of their web. 

 

Woven Paper Plate Webs

What you need:

  • a paper plate
  • Scissors and or Hole punch
  • wool/string/yarn

What to do:

  1. Using a paper plate, either punch holes around the plate or make slits around the plate – slits are easier for younger children.
  2.  Use some wool/string or yarn and weave back and forth to make a spider web. 
  3.  Place a spider in the web.

*If you punched holes, put some celotape on one end – making it easier to put it through the holes.  

 

Blow Paint Spider Webs

What you need:

  • Black paint

  • Straws

  •  paper

What to do:

  1. Use runny black paint and using a straw, blow the paint across the page to make a spider’s web pattern.
  2. Stick spider and bugs stickers onto the finished web.

* For a variation, use white paint on black paper.

 

Marble rolling Spider web

What you need:

  • Black Construction Paper
  • Round cake tin
  • White Paint
  •  Scissors

  • Marble

 What to do: 

  1. Cut a piece of construction paper to fit into the bottom of the cake pan.
  2. Place about a half teaspoon of white paint in the middle of the paper.
  3. Drop the marble into the cake pan and tilt the pan back and forth. As the marble passes through the paint it leaves trails of white on the paper. 
     


 


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3 Spidery Things to Make and Eat

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Get some creepy crawlies into your kitchen with child friendly spider treats! (more…)

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