Print the page below. Have the children color the house and cut it out. Staple a flexible
straw to the house as shown. Give each child a spider ring which are available at Wal-Mart
or other similar stores in the Halloween section. Have they say the rhyme and manipulate the
spider up and down the waterspout.
Felt Board Pieces for Itsy Bitsy Spider
Print the patterns below. Follow the instructions on the pattern pieces.
Gluing pieces together with a hot glue gun is recommended.
Glue a face on your spider. We just used snippets of white paper and a black marker
Tie a piece of wool that is 2 1/2 times the length of the water spout onto the spider.
Put the wool through the spout. The child can pull the end of the wool to make the spider climb up the OUTSIDE of the water spout and let go of the wool so the spider falls down (when the rain washes the spider out).
You can attach a craft stick or a straw to the end of the wool the child holds onto as a handle if you like.
Kaitlyn (Age 2 at the time) also had fun swinging her spider in circles (ring around the rosy) and dragging it along behind her (walking her puppy)
Itsy Bitsy Spider Felt Board CharactersIn this section I've put together some simple pages to go with the nursery rhyme. You can use them in a couple of ways: Use the sheets as... PUPPETS
Either print the black and white sheet to color
OR
print the color page
Cut out each image and tape it to a popsicle stick or an unsharpened pencil.
Use the sheets as... FELT BOARD CHARACTERS
Either print the black and white sheet to color
OR
print the color page
You can cover with clear contact paper or laminate if you want them to last longer.
Cut out each character.
Cut out a small piece of coarse sandpaper and tape or glue it on the back of each character (if you laminated, it will need to be a larger piece of sandpaper). The sandpaper will allow the characters to stick on your felt board.
The nursery rhyme is quite short, but if you own a felt board it's still nice to put up felt board characters and point to them as they are mentioned in the nursery rhyme.
Templates:
Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
FOUR LITTLE BUGSOne little bug went out to play,
On a spider’s web one day.
He had ever so much fun,
He called for another bug to come.Two little bugs went out to play,
On a spider’s web one day.
They had ever so much fun,
They called for another bug to come.Three little bugs went out to play,
On a spider’s web one day.
They had ever so much fun,
They called for another bug to come.Four little bugs went out to play,
On a spider’s web one day.
They got stuck, all in a bunch.
And along came spider, in time for lunch!
Jean WarrenLet a small group of children act out this rhyme.
Have one child start and call in a friend at the appropriate time.
When all four children are crawling around the web, choose
A fifth child to be the spider, who crawls in and eats them up.
SPIDERS INVITATION
Tune: “Down By The Station”Early in the morning
The spiders love to spin,
Then by and by
The flies drop in.And when they come,
The spiders always say,
“We’re glad you came
For dinner today”!
Jean Warren
Adapted Traditional
EENSY WEENSY SPIDER
Tune: “Eensy Weensy Spider”Eensy weensy spider
Went up the water spout.
Counting out inches
As he climbed about.One inch, two inch
Three inch – four
Up, up he goes
On the spout by the door.Five inch, six inch,
Seven inch – eight
Hurry little spider
Don’t be late.Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
But as he slid down
Backwards he did count!
8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Jean Warren
Adapted Traditional
THE BIG BLACK SPIDER
The big black spider
Made a web on the tree.
It was big and round,
You would agree.
She might catch a bug,
She might catch a bee.
But the big black spider,
Can not catch me!
Jean Warren
SPIDER DANCE
Tune: “Farmer In The Dell” Spiders crawl around, (children crawl around)
Spiders up and down, (stand up, bend down)
Spiders, spiders make a web, ( join right hands to form a spoke)
Spiders circle ‘round. (walk around in a circle together)Spiders in and out, (crawl fingers on left hand, down and back on right arm)
Spiders all about, (repeat crawl action)
Spiders, spiders make a web,
Spiders now sit down. (children sit down)
Jean Warren
THE EENSY WEENSY SPIDER
Tune: "Eensy Weensy Spider"
The Eensy Weensy Spider
Crawled up the porch at night.
She spun a web,
It was a scary sight.
When the children
On Halloween night.
Came Trick-or-Treating
She gave them all a fright!
BOO!
Jean Warren
BUSY SPIDER
Tune: "This Old Man"
Busy Spider, he made one
Great big web on a drum,
With a spin, spin, spin
'Round and 'round he goes.
He puts on, quite a show. Busy Spider, he made two
Great big webs on some shoes.
With a spin, spin, spin
'Round and 'round he goes.
He puts on, quite a show.Busy Spider, he made three
Great big webs on a tree.
With a spin, spin, spin,
'Round and 'round he goes.
He puts on quite a show.Busy Spider, he made four
Great big webs on the door.
With a spin, spin, spin,
'Round and 'round he goes.
When he sleeps, no one knows!
Jean Warren
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FOUR LITTLE SPIDERS
Four little spiders, spinning all day
Hoping some flies would come their way.
"I caught one", the first one said .
I think I'll now go home to bed. Three little spiders, spinning all day
Hoping some flies would come their way.
Before too long, the second one said,
"I caught one, I'm off to bed".Two little spiders, spinning all day
Hoping some flies would come their way.
All of a sudden, one came through
And the third little spider went home, too!One little spider, spinning all day
Hoping some flies would come his way.
Finally, he caught one in his web
And got to go home to his bed.
Jean Warren
[Let children act this out with some children being the spiders and others being the flies.]
SING A SONG OF SPIDERS
Tune: “Sing A Song of Six Pense”Sing a song of spiders,
Up in a tree.
Six shinny spiders,
Sliding down by me.When they came near,
I began to run.
Sitting under spiders
Isn’t lots of fun!
Jean Warren