Materials
Paper
Markers, two colors
Colored chalk, two colors
What to do
- Ask the children if they know why spiders don't get stuck in their own webs. Explain that not all of the treads in a web are sticky. Spiders first spin vertical threads, which are not sticky,and then horizontal threads, which are. Insects get caught when they touch the sticky threads, but spiders "tiptoe" over them.
- Give the children paper and have them draw the vertical lines of a spider web in one color and the horizontal lines in another.
Go outsied and draw a large web with chalk on the playground. Draw the vertical lines in one color and horizontal lines in another. have children pretend they are bugs and try to walk across the webwithout stepping on the "sticky lines.
More to do
Art: Use regular and double-sided tape to create the web on paper.
Movement: do listening activities involving horizontal and vertical (e.g., lie down, stand up, hold out your arms, lift your arms). Related books
I Love Spiders by Parker
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani | 
