Nursery World - Make a spider

By Georgina Smith, nursery nurse at Gillas Lane Nursery Unit, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear Talk about spiders and reinforce your discussion by making a simple craft version of the creatures, and saying a rhyme.

Talk about spiders and reinforce your discussion by making a simple craft version of the creatures, and saying a rhyme.

Resources

Black card, buttons, black tissue, shearing elastic

Step by step

* Help the children to cut out black circles for the spider's body.

* Glue on the buttons for the eyes.

* Glue on eight tissue legs.

* Make a hole in the centre and thread through the elastic so it bounces.

* Say the following rhyme. The children will love to shout out the answer.

Have you seen me in the corner?

Have you found me in the bath?

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