Why does this slime look weird? It was actually failed attempt to do slime with clear glue but the texture was a fun one. It is like Playdough got married with slime, so I let it and Manu loves it. You can use just Playdough or just slime to recreate the bin. This activity encourages creativity, fine motor and malleable skills, one to one correspondence and counting skills.

Alexa is a sensory teacher, bilingual mother, stepmother, and promoter of learning through play. She shares play and learning ideas for moms, dads, and caregivers to try at home. Alexa runs sensory classes, virtual Mommy & Me and private play coaching. She dedicates herself to creating learning resources to give your little ones an advantage when entering Pre-K. having a full week of Itsy Bitsy spider was a lot of fun! I always aim to make a sensory bin, an art project, and some fine motor work . This week was a lot of fun and we definitely enjoy it! I hope you too! Rigby Star Guided Phonic Opportunity Readers Lilac: Incy Wincy Spider: Phonic Opportunity Lilac Level (Star Phonics Opportunity Readers) Once upon a Spidery time... If possible have a selection of pictures of spiders, soft toys or puppets to represent the characters and to focus attention. These will also aid any additional retelling and sequencing activities. This is a fun way to bring a song to life and to create a lasting resource for home or classroom using kids’ artwork as the main decoration. Using some velcro to create detachable pieces makes it interactive and prompts involvement from the child at the right part of the song. You could create a whole book of favourite songs and rhymes this way!Age: Tabbies to work on learning colors and 2’s to practice on similarities and differences as well as color matching. Fill the reminder 1/4 of the bottle with clear glue or clear soap (hand or dish soap works fine). The glue or soap will make the confetti and spider fall slower than I’d you just do water. Small group discussion: what was special about Anansi’s spider sons? Who was your favourite? Why? How can we work together and help each other? Ask questions to encourage the children to give more information: What? Why? Where? Who? One of my favorite sensory bin themes is using water. This is perfect for those babies and toddlers still putting things in their mouth. Using a colander, create a water sensory bin, practice pouring skills as well as taking the time to splash and start learning “sink or float” concepts. Itsy bitsy Rice sensory bin Use this file folder printable to practice matching shapes. Use the color matching spider sheet to match each shape.

This is a wonderful resource Anna! I am really looking forward to your series. Just wondering if this is suitable for 3 years of age? Sorry I mean I really struggle to engage their interest in anything and I never know what I should be doing. It would be good to have some advice from you as you are obviously doing a great job. A collection of Incy Wincy (Itsy Bitsy) Spider activities and resources to encourage creativity, counting and literacy development for young children! Thanks Amie! Yes I am all about hands on , playful learning so most of the ideas are play dough, painting and active learning so will be perfect for 3 year olds (and toddlers too for that matter!) Some of there resources I share may be better for 4+ but the numbers and alphabet for e.g. are great for any age to have as free play manipulatives. Thanks so much for this it’s a real inspiration for me as I love looking at your blog but really struggle with how to engage my 1 and 2 year old girls.Our new thing around the house is themed bath time. Sometimes is for our morning time and sometime like today is for our night time. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth I just love every one of these ideas…my twins are loving incy wincy at the moment so i think i will need to incorporate a few of these! Enhance your water play provision with plastic bugs and mini-beasts frozen in ice. Add plastic spiders and tubes to scaffold ‘Incy, Wincy Spider’ rhyme.

How many different creatures can you find - worms, slugs, snails, caterpillars, beetles, ants, woodlice, ladybirds? Make a simple graph to record your findings. Go for a mini beast hunt: can you hunt for spiders and their webs? What else can you find? Explore the outdoor environment, provide magnifying glasses and pooters, clipboards, paper, pencils, Information books. Get tons of creative ideas to do with your toddler at home! Become a PLAY MEMBER by signing up for the newsletter. Down comes the rain and washes Incy out. Out comes the sun and dries up all the rain, so Incy Wincy Spider climbs up the spout again.

Toys

Itsy Bitsy Spider tells the adventures of a Spider, named Itsy Bitsy (or Incy Wincy – more popular in England) who is going up and down, and up again, as the weather is chaining. Rhyming text and beauitful, hand-stitched illustrations make this an ideal book for parents and young children to share. Itsy Bitsy Spider” or “Incy Wincy Spider” is a modern nursery rhyme that is very popular among children and one of our favorite nursery rhymes at home. At the time of creating these activities my son is 2.5 years old but some of these activities can be adjusted to older or younger toddlers. Kids develop at different times so just judge what your child can and can’t do. Lesson plan for itsy bitsy Spider

I love how ideas just come out of doing other activities. This was initially a spooky spider sensory bottle because Halloween is just around the corner and when I shared it with my son I started to sing the itsy bitsy spider. Ohhh I had purple glitter because it was a spooky spider but I’d I changed it to blue, then it would act as the rain!! For this activity all you need is a basket with holes on the side, white yarn, and plastic spiders.A fantastic collection of twenty songs, nursery rhymes, stories, puzzles and tongue-twisters performed by Sophie Aldred and Richard Mitchley. This will be the real test to see which shapes he knows and which shape they still need to practice. This is an overview of the activities we did and the breakdown by day. Based on our homeschool schedule, we do two activities each day. Our Products FOR Itsy bitsy spider activities