Riley's Rhymes - Itsy Bitsy Spider Activities

For the past two weeks, Riley has been working with the rhymes of Isty Bitsy Spider. We have had some spider fun using the min pack that I posted here. Riley insists that I do "school" with him first, before the other kids because he feels left out. I always keep his activities in a plastic bin, ready to grab and do:) Here are a few of the activities that we completed for our rhyme.

I included a fine motor activity of using the tweezers to pick up the spiders. This was slightly difficult for him as he had trouble squeezing the tweezers. We will revisit this type of activity.

I made a simple sensory bin of black beans, tp tubes, and spiders. He had fun having the spider slip down the water spout.

This activity is included in my printable pack - counting spiders. He used magnetic pom pom spiders to match the spiders on the cards while we practiced counting. He did exactly what I thought he would - he matched each color with the correct color pom pom magnet.

Another printable from my pack - matching the color spiders. I added magnets to the back and he matched the colors of the spiders together.

I found this activity at a consignment sale - magnetic bugs and spiders. He made a tower of the spiders and bugs to see how tall he could go.

He is practicing his shapes with this button activity. Riley is super-dinosaur crazy right now. That was his favorite puzzle to do.

Another printable from my pack - matching the shapes. My goal for this year is to have him learn his shapes and colors. We have been working on the color black and circles so far.

He is singing the rhyme while playing with the pieces from my pack.

Riley is making a simple foam spider with pipe cleaner legs. He is threading the pipe cleaners through the holes on the spider body.

I made a painter's tape spider web and gave Riley some cotton balls. He had to throw the cotton balls onto the spider web. They all had fun doing this. I kept this activity up for a week. They just kept reusing the cotton balls and by the end of the week, the web was all fuzzy.

I added a spider web to my floor and had Riley walk it. He also played cars with it, running on the roads. We left this for several days as well.

He painted a plate black and added google eyes. Then I painted the color circles and a few clothespins. Together, we made a spider match game - he had to match the colors of the pins to the colors on the spider. The hardest thing for him was pinching the clothespins to get them on the plate. We practiced this all week.

We are onto pumpkins for the rest of October. Stay tuned for my pumpkin mini pack. Enjoy your day.


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