Wee Steamers: Midnight Spider
Meet Midnight Spider, the clever little arachnid who spins webs in the moonlight! In this educational video, young children will discover fascinating—and surprising— spider facts! Perfect for curious kids and great for teachers and parents looking for engaging STEAM content.
 | CATEGORY:science | GRADE LEVEL:early childhood |
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ACTIVITIES:
Spider Web I Spy
Take your budding arachnologists on a nature walk to search for spider webs. They’ll gain classification, comparison, and documentation skills as they note the size, design, and location of spider webs and, if they’re currently inhabited. Take photos for later display—a terrific way to document their search! https://naturestudyhomeschool.com/spiders-activities-for-kids/
Spider Exhibit
Transform the dramatic play area of your classroom into a spider exhibit, and help your future docents and biologists share what they are learning about spiders and their habitats! Experience in documentation like this goes hand in hand with skills in observation, classification, and comparison. https://www.prekprintablefun.com/spiders-lesson-planning-page.html
Spider Web Painting with Marbles
This activity encourages young artists to explore texture, line, and spatial relationships as they create spider webs with white paint, black construction paper, and marbles. Creativity, process orientation, and observation are important skills to the learning process. https://www.gluedtomycraftsblog.com/2013/10/marble-art-spider-web-kid-craft.html
Spider Ring Counting Game
Help your mini mathematicians build number, quantification and comparison skills in this fun game of spider counting! Encourage players to mark a tally sheet of the number of spiders collected in each turn, to see which player collects the most spiders! https://www.prekinders.com/preschool-spiders-activities/
Spider Life Cycle
Young scientists will have a variety of ways to show the life cycle of the spider with this activity, and in the process, build order/seriation skills, part-whole relationships, and concepts specifically around arachnology – the study of spiders! https://thekindergartenconnection.com/spider-life-cycle-activities-for-pre-k-kindergarten/
CRAFT:
Doodle Lou's "Spider King Crown"
Make way for the Spider King! Young children will love crafting this delightfully spooky crown that’s crawling with fun! To download instructions, click the CRAFT tab.
