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February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments

Spiders don’t have to be scary!

Egg Carton Spider!
An egg carton and pipe cleaners are not just for making caterpillars!

  1. Gather your materials. You will need an egg carton, any size will work. Some paint and a brush,scissors, 4 pipe cleaners and something to protect your table. Painting such a small thing means lots of mess! * You may want to get some googly eyes for older children but I discourage you using them for toddlers, they love popping them in their mouths and those suckers are sharp when bitten and a choking hazard.
  2. Cut your carton so you have just one little section.
  3. Paint it, and let dry completely.
  4. Make 4 small holes with sharp scissors on each side of the carton, and feed pipe cleaners through.
  5. Glue on googly eyes or for younger toddlers you can draw them on with a marker as long as the paint is completely dry.

* Now 2 days after making this spider my son who is 15 months old is in LOVE with his spider. I really thought this activity would be more of one about painting for him, but he has been carrying this spider around and to the dinner table now for a day and a half!

Song!


The Itsy Bitsy Spider

The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout,
down came the rain and washed the spider out!
Out came the sun and dried out all the rain,
and the Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the spout again!


Books!

There are a lot of great spider books, in fact a whole series of ” Miss Spider” books the by David Kirk. These two books I am showing are both board books although there are hard cover and soft cover versions as well. ” The Itsy Bitsy Spider” by Taggies is a great, there are soft ribbon tags along the pages and offers a tactile activity for young babies and toddlers that are not ready for static pictures. ” The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle is a great story about hard work!

” The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle
” The Itsy Bitsy Spider” by Taggies

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  1. Sam says

    August 23, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    Oh, this is perfect. I have my own little arachnophile right now, and I bet he’d love this. Though it may become an octopus if I can’t find blue/black/brown pipecleaners in the closet. I’ll have to remember this one for our next rainy weekend.

    Thanks!
    .-= Sam´s last blog ..Review- Chicky Chicky Chook Chook =-.

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