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Contact_FullName: Sherri Contact_Email: RRossimom@yahoo.com date:: 08/09/03 Area: Spiders-Art Idea: Materials: Black Paper plate, glue, plastic spiders Have children drizzle the glue on the paper plate, encouraging them to make crisscross lines of glue. Then have them make one small puddle of glue to put the spider in. This has to dry for a couple of days but when dry the web is raised like in "The Very Busy Spider" Thanks to my mentor Karen L for the idea. collect the "balls" that fall from SweetGum trees. Give each child one sweet gum ball and their choice of colors of pipe cleaners cut into fourths. The children will use their hand eye co-ordination and fine motor skills to insert the pipe cleaners into the naturally occurring holes in the sweetgum balls. We create a spider web with yarn from the ceiling of the classroom and dangle our spiders from a short piece of yarn all over the room. My four year olds love this activity! Contact_FullName: Darcy Contact_Email: cassiaflower33@hotmail.com date:: 10/16/02 Area: Spider Art Idea: We had the paper plate web with pretty yarn. Some children were afraid of spiders, but we had pom pon warm fuzzies and caterpillars, there were wiggly eyes and pipe cleaner legs everywhere too. The Very Busy Spider Paper plate web (Terri told me about this). For older children or small classes of 4 yr olds, you can cut slits in paper plates or hole punch them, then tie or tape the yarn to the plate. The 3-4 yr olds are better off glueing on the yarn (Hindsight after my group of 12). Add a ball of paper or a pom pon, wiggley eyes, and legs (pipe cleaners cut up). I got a 3 & 4 yr old to do it, but that was a class of 3, so I helped a lot. Contact_FullName: Erin Contact_Email: jamesone98@yahoo.com date:: 10-15-02 Area: Halloween-spiders Idea: You print a decent sized spider on a peice of 8 1/2 by 11" construction paper and then you have the dhildren fill the spider in by glueing black beans inside using red beans for the eyes or mouth and other beans for the eyes and then you have a cute spider with a "Happy Hallo-bean" Contact_FullName: DeeDee Contact_Email: missdeedee@juno.com date:: 8/6/02 Area: Bug Art Idea: Milk Cap Spiders Paint the caps black, using acrylic craft paint. Dry. Glue on black pipecleaner legs and add wiggly eyes. Bend pipecleaners to look like legs and feet. Contact_FullName: Brenda Contact_Email: bjhills74@cs.com date:: 7/27/200 Area: Art-Spiders Idea: After reading The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle, we make webs with glue! Take a 1/2 sheet of brown construction paper and notch out the corners and sides with scissors, making it look like a fence. Teachers add the look of a fence with markers connecting the sides Keep the inside of the paper intact and let the kids use glue to spin a web on the inside. Good for kids who have good glue control, tell them to make it with thin lines. Allow the glue to dry overnight and the next day have the children put their spider on it, using their thumbprint and adding legs to it. It makes a great texture art. The webs have been spectacular! Contact_FullName: Julie Maxwell Contact_Email: Jewelsmax@earthlink.com date:: 07/13/02 Area: Spiders -- art Idea: My co-teacher and I came up with this one together. She made spiders with them, while I made the webs with them. We teach 3 & 4 yr old preschool. Spiders: She prepared styrofoam balls by heating a knife and cutting them in half. Each child got half a styrofoam ball to paint and 8 1" or 2" pieces of pipe cleaner to stick on the sides for legs, and added wiggle eyes. Web. I had a black piece of paper cut in a circular or oval shape put in a flat box. I put silver and white paint in the box, with some marbles. The children tilted the box to roll the marbles, and stopped when it looked like a spider web. When both the spiders and webs were dry we glued the spiders on the webs. I do a spider theme a couple weeks before Halloween, but this would work well if you do spiders and bugs in the spring as well-- In Eric Carle's book The Very Busy Spider, the spider web pictures are raised from the page, so that you can feel them. We laid white paper over the page and did a "web rubbing" with a gray crayon. Then we put fingerprint spiders in our webs (thumbprint for the body, pinky finger for the head, and legs drawn on with a marker). They came out very cute, and since the kids enjoyed the book, they loved how they could create something that looked like the pictures in the book!
ideaSpider Print- Have the children make a fist. On the palm side of the fist paint it black and let the child stamp their painted fist onto a piece of white paper. Open the fist up. Paint all the fingers but the thumb! Let child put the finger prints on either side of the fist print. (this is the legs) Using their thumbs let them place two thumb prints on the spider. They have created a great holiday art project that not only they will love but the parents can keep to remember their little hands.
ideaPaper plate spiders. Use black paper plates or have children paint them black. Give children googly eyes and wrinkled construction paper legs. Let them glue their eyes and legs onto the plate. Punch a hole and hang from the ceiling.
ideaSpider webs: Cut black construction paper to fit inside a round cake pan (or you can use a square or rectangle pan and cut a circle out later). Place the paper in the pan. Dip a marble in white paint and place in the pan. Let the children tip the pan back and forth so that the marble rolls, making a paint trail that looks like a web. You can sprinkle with glitter while the paint is wet. My preschoolers loved making these. We also glued a plastic spider to the webs. Great for Halloween or an insect theme.
Date: 8-19-99Here's a neat idea the children really love. Use plastic spiders to paint with! Put the spiders on a tray of paint and let the children dip them in and make prints on construction paper. The design that it makes look great!
9-14-00After reading "The Very Busy Spider" we made spiders. I cut from cardboard egg cartons the body which consisted of two sections. The children then painted the spider bodies. We attached legs using pipe cleaners and then glued on eyes and hung them from the ceiling!
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