Today at Bright Minds we focused on spiders. Our key concepts included the fact that spiders are not insects {they eat often eat insects}, spiders have 8 legs, spiders spin webs of silk, and those webs help them to catch food. We started the class with a really fun activity where we passed a huge ball of white wool back and forth across a circle, unraveling it and having the kids hold onto the yarn tightly as we went. The result was a giant collaborative spider web that I then flew giant insect figurines through in order to illustrate how spiders collect their food.
Afterwards, we created our own spider webs using hole-punched paper plates and yarn, and then made handprint spiders like we do each year at Halloween to attach them. {This is Grae’s spider and she is a girl, fyi.}
Afterwards, the munchkins had two play dough stations they could explore. Miss G chose this one first.
Here’s the very leggy spider she created.
Afterwards, she moved onto one of our very favourite play dough games, imprint matching, this time with all sorts of creepy crawlies.
She and a few friends worked together until they’d made all of the matches, then smushed up the imprint pancakes and made new ones for each other afterwards.
It was a great class and we’re looking forward to learning all about lady bugs next week!
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I think your spider activities are wonderful and I especially love how you started them with the large yarn spider web!