Slime… It’s probably Miss G’s favourite thing to give to her friends when Halloween rolls around each year. I don’t blame her – it’s stretchy and gooey and just plain fun. In the past we’ve done mini mason jars of pink sparkly slime for her ballerina friends and little Franken-SLIME containers for the kiddos that live in our building, and this year we’ve decided on two new types of slime giveaways for her buddies – the first of which is these spider web slime halloween favours.
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.}
This fun breakfast is quickly becoming a Halloween tradition in our house. G loves spiderweb pancakes because they’re ‘really cool and spooky’ and I like them because they make for a fun, but healthy way to start the day. Plus despite how it may look, they’re really easy to make.