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Spider Puppet Halloween Craft

By Shaunna Evans 1 Comment · This content may contain affiliate links.

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I have always loved making our spider headband craft with kids in the classroom and at home.  It’s a sure bet for creating some giggles around here! This year for our spider activities I decided we’d try a bit of a twist on that classic favorite and create spider puppets. They make a cute Halloween craft to hang, but this way the girls can also use them for playtime. We’ve used them to act out The Itsy Bitsy Spider, make up our own spider plays, and scare each other–fake or not a giant spider in a dark hallway is no joke–heehee!

Coffee Filter Spider Craft and Puppet for Halloween or an Itsy Bitsy Spider Activity

FIND EVEN MORE SPIDER THEME ACTIVITIES IN OUR PRINTABLE LESSON PLANS
FOR HOME PRESCHOOL AND PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS.

Coffee Filter Spider Puppet Craft

We started this activity by painting a coffee filter with black paint. You could also use paper plates, but you’ll want to paint both sides if you use a paper plate. Then Tinker and I folded eight strips of black paper accordion style. Kids will likely need you to help model how to fold accordion style, but do let them do it on their own. It’s great fine motor practice!  I like to say “flip, fold, flip, fold” as a simple pattern to help kids remember the process.

Folding accordion style

There are a lot of ways to incorporate additional learning skills into craft time. We stopped to discuss how many legs a spider has, and Tinker double checked to make sure we had the correct number of legs for our spider.

Counting

Then Tinker glued her legs onto the bottom of the dry black coffee filter.

Attaching spider legs

Next we talked about how many eyes spiders have, and we counted out eight eyes. I love the way Tinker approached this. Instead of just counting a pile of eyes she matched each eye to one leg, demonstrating an understanding of one-to-one correspondence and making sure she had eight eyes.

Counting eyes

Then she glued the eyes on the top of the spider. Let kids put the eyes anywhere on the body that they want. Seeing how they choose to arrange them is part of the fun!

Spider Craft-Adding Eyes

If you want a craft to display on a wall this is a great spot to stop. We wanted our spiders to be interactive so we grabbed a craft stick, tape, and some fishing line (any string will do).

We cut the fishing line to a length that would allow Tinker to hold the ends while standing and still allow the spider to touch the ground.

On the bottom of our spider we taped the the craft stick so that it would keep the body of the spider from collapsing too much. Then we taped the fishing line along the bottom of the spider too. We placed the string so that it would come out between the second and third legs on both sides.

I also tied loops in the end of the fishing line so Tinker could hold it easily.

Spider Craft and Puppet for Kids

Then it was time to play!

Itsy Bitsy Spider Puppet Craft

With your own little ones take time to see how many different ways you can get the spider to move. Make it walk slowly, walk quickly, hop, bounce, sway, etc.  Introduce vocabulary words like scurry and scamper and act them out with your spiders.

Spider Puppet Halloween Craft for Kids

You can also use your spiders to act out songs like The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Little Miss Muffet, and more. Continue the learning by creating your own spider plays.

More Fun with Spiders

Spider Books

Spider Play Dough

Itsy Bitsy Spider Sticky Wall

DIY Spider Ring

Spider Headband

Paint with Spiders

GET A FULL WEEK OF SPIDER THEME ACTIVITIES

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

Learn some facts about real spiders and use toy spiders to learn math, literacy and science concepts in this full lesson plan pack for preschool. Watch this short video to see just a few examples of the types of activities and printables included in this set:

The full 31-page Spider Theme Lesson Plan Pack also includes:

  • My Spider Emergent Reader
  • Spider Babies Fine Motor Activity Mat
  • Spider Patterning Task Cards
  • Spider Roll and Add Counting Game
  • Spider Letter Building Mat
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider Story Sequencing Pieces
  • Spider Calendar (or general number) Cards

    GET YOUR LESSON PLANS

Home Preschool Spider Theme Lesson Plans (in our shop or on TpT)

Preschool Classroom Spider Theme Lesson Plans (in our shop or on TpT)

Preschool Halloween Activity-Spider Puppet Craft

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  1. Alison

    October 5, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    This is adorable!

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