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Spider Sing-along Songs
Have some fun with Spiders. Enjoy creating these webs with your little one.
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Spaghetti Spiderwebs
What you need:
Cooked Spaghetti (cold)
White glue
Wax paper
What to do:
- Children dip the spaghetti into the glue and arrange the pieces onto the wax paper.
- When the spaghetti has dried, carefully peel the “web” off of the wax paper.
- Add a small plastic or paper spider to complete the look.
- 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:
- Mix equal parts of flour, salt, and water in a large bowl.
- Pour the mixture into squeeze bottles.
- Give each child a black paper plate or a piece of black construction paper.
- Let the children squeeze the white puffy paint onto the black paper.
- When the puffy paint dries, it will look like glittery spider webs.
- 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:
- 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).
- Cover the lines with glue.
- Sprinkle on some silver glitter, and shake off the excess.
- 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:
- Using a paper plate, either punch holes around the plate or make slits around the plate – slits are easier for younger children.
- Use some wool/string or yarn and weave back and forth to make a spider web.
- 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:
- Use runny black paint and using a straw, blow the paint across the page to make a spider’s web pattern.
- 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:
- Cut a piece of construction paper to fit into the bottom of the cake pan.
- Place about a half teaspoon of white paint in the middle of the paper.
- 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.
