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Spiders

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Inspiration from the Daycare Spaces and Ideas Facebook Community

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Holly Jennifer
This fun "Spider" Dough invitation was created by Daycare Spaces and Ideas Community member Holly Jennifer.

Arts & Crafts

 

1. I love crafts that are made from items I have on hand like this Handprint Spider Lacing Card craft from Mom Endeavors. It also combines a fine motor activity-Love that! 
2. Be sure to pop over to Inner Child Fun for the recipe for this Play Dough Spider invitation.
3. I thought these Water Color Resist Spider Web Paintings from i heart arts n crafts were so beautiful!
4. I remember making spider hats, do you? Check out the tutorial from Education.com
5. This Spider Craft from Munchkins and Moms is perfect for the littles in your care.
6. I'm a huge fan of process art. This Spooky Marble Spider Web project from Tinkerlab is the perfect way to round up your week.

Dramatic Play

Turn the  dramatic play into an Entomologist Lab this week!
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Mrs. Alexander's Amazing Ants

Construction Area-Blocks & Building

Add pretend spiders, and Materials to Create Webs to your Construction Space this week.
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Imagine Learning Center

Items to Enhance your Space:

Daycare Spaces and Ideas Printable activities

The following spider activity pack is available in my shop and in the Pre-K Printables Club Member download area! Find out how you can join for unlimited access to my printables!
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Spider Printable Activity Pack-Digital Download

$5.00
This 53-Page Spider activity pack includes 19 easy to assemble printable preschool activities.

You'll find the following 19 activities in this pack:
Spider Shape Clip Cards
Rainbow spider web color matching activity
Spider Race Rolling Game
Spider Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice
uppercase and lowercase letter matching file folder activity
Spider Count and Clip Cards
Spider Puzzle
Spider Web counting mats 1-10 without frames
Spider Web counting mats 1-10 with frames
Spider Patterning Activity
Spider Sorting by size 
Parts of a spider
Spider life cycle
Spider Match Up
Counting Spiders Play Dough Mat
Spider Cut & Paste Color Matching
Spider Cut & Paste Number Matching
Spider Number Matching
Positional Phrases

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Activities

1. Scoop spiders from this spooky spider fall sensory bin from the eye of a boy.
2. Check out this fun Spider Oobleck from Little Bins for Little Hands
3. This giant spider web from Teach Preschool is a great group activity.
4. Doesn't this spider light table display from Casa Maria's look fabulous? 
5. This "The Very Busy Spider " cutting activity from Munchkins and Moms is a great way to incorporate a fine motor activity in a Themed unit.
6. This clever fine motor activity from PreKinders is perfect for spider week. Be sure to visit this post for several other fine motor activities that you can incorporate into your weekly themes.
7. This fun Giant Sticky Spider Web  is featured on Barbara Zab's page. What a fun way to get out some indoor energy.
8. Check out how Homeschool Life Journal went outside and collected some real spider webs!

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