- Spider season in your area is a great time to go outside on a spider hunting expedition. Take magnifiers, clipboards with paper and pencil and a digital camera. Children can look at the (nonpoisonous and non-jumping) spiders up close, and then make a life drawing of one (doesn’t have to be accurate).
- Go inside and discuss what you have seen. Read a book, discuss body parts and web making, egg laying and food.
- Spiders are not insects. Describe the major differences large simple diagrams to illustrate your point
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- Spiders are living animals. They are not insects. Spiders are arachnids, with 2 body parts (cephalothorax and abdomen), 8 eyes and 8 legs.
- Many spiders spin webs to help them capture food (insects) to eat, to stay alive. The web substance is extruded from the spider’s body, and is sticky. I wonder why spiders don’t stick to their own webs?
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- Be a spider and spin a web - wind a ball of over and under furniture around the room
- Sensory box with natural items such as leaves, grass, rocks, small branches and some model spiders.
- Draw a directed “scientific drawing” of a spider – even 3 yr olds can do this. Teacher labels.
- Make a spider hat – this is a black headband, with 4 legs stapled on each side, and 8 red circle eyes glued on the front. Over 4s can use zigzag folding for the legs, and the younger ones can curl and fold them any way they want.
- Categorize animals that are insects and animals that are spiders.
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