Today is more of a “free art” day. Provide a supply of plastic spiders and let the students use their Boardmaker symbols to choose a color of paint and a color of paper. They can then dip their spiders in paint and use them to paint their paper, whether by walking or rolling their spiders across the paper or using them to splatter paint across the paper.
A great fine motor activity for this theme is to make spider lacing cards. Simply print a large spider pattern on a piece of cardstock, cut it out, and laminate it. Punch several holes around the edge of the pattern. Have the students use laces, yarn, or plastic beading thread to lace the spider. This activity can easily be adapted to fit any theme.
A fun literacy extension is to make your own classroom “very busy spider” book. Put the characters from the book onto the All-Turn-It (see the picture above), available from AbleNet, and have each child spin the wheel to see which character they will be. Paste a picture of the child’s head onto the body of the type of animal that they land on, and assemble your pages into a binder or folder to make a book, substituting the child’s name for the animal. You could even have a separate version of the board book that you can tape the children’s faces to. The students will love to look at themselves in the book!
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