Spider Craft 2D Shape Activities A Busy Spider Eats 2D Shapes

Here's a super-cute spider craft to help practice 2D shapes. Great transition activity after reading "The Very Busy Spider" as this spider is busy eating shapes!

Teacher Comments:

• "Fantastic for our nursery rhyme theme with math integration."
• “Fun!” “Very cute way to review 2D shapes!”
• "I loved that this was something that the students could take home with them and practice."

My students absolutely love making sliders. I named them that, because you "slide" a strip of paper through a "window" of a little craft.

We'll be working on 2D shapes in October, so I thought I’d design a "shapely spider slider" to go with our science theme.

The 2D shape options are the basic 5: circle, oval, triangle, square & rectangle, as well as options for a hexagon, pentagon, octagon, star, heart, trapezoid & rhombus.

There are sliders with the blank shapes, as well as patterns with a fly on each shape.

My students like to pretend that the spider is slurping up the flies as we identify the various shapes.

I’ve included templates if you want to pre-cut the circles, as well as patterns you can run off to have students trim their own.

There are also eye patterns with and without pupils, so students can add wiggle eyes with glue dots for that extra bit of 3D pizzazz, or they can draw their own.

Because spiders can be a variety of colors besides just black, I give children a choice of what color they want to make their spider.

Cut 1/2 inch by 10 to 12 inch black strips on a paper cutter. These will be the spider’s legs.

To reinforce the fact that a spider is an arachnid and not an insect, we count the 8 legs and I remind students that insects have 6.

Accordion-folding the "legs" is not only fun for your students, but a great fine motor activity that will help strengthen their finger and hand muscles. I think it also adds that “finishing touch”

Choose the 2D shapes you want to review and print those sliders off. Children color, cut & glue the strips together.

The spider sliders also provide a quick, easy and fun way to whole group assess. Simply call out a shape.

Teacher IDEA:

• "I used this as the MOST adorable pre-assessment ever!"

Students slide to it then hold their spider up. You can see at a glance who is having difficulty.

I’m Diane from Teach With Me, hoping your students enjoy making a shapely spider slider as much as mine do.

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