A collection of Incy Wincy (Itsy Bitsy) Spider activities and resources to encourage creativity, counting and literacy development for young children!
I’m excited to begin a new series about singing, rhymes and music, starting with some popular nursery rhymes and counting songs over the next few weeks. Where possible I will be linking to one of my new favourite online resources, Twinkl, an educational resources site, who have partnered with me to create some bespoke materials that you can download and use at home!
Each post will be a quick round up of some favourite ways to play and learn about each topic, with links to resources included.
Play Dough Incy Wincy Invitaion to Play:
I set out black sparkly play dough, pipe cleaners, googly eyes and a book with a spider poem (Mad about Minibeasts) to inspire some spider creations! The forks were for encouraging them to add texture and patterns to the dough.
This activity encourages creativity, fine motor and malleable skills, one to one correspondence and counting skills.
Handprint Spider Puppets
We made handprints in black paint and then overlapped them and stuck them together to create spider shapes. On top we added googly eyes and then attached them to bamboo skewers with tape, and turned them into super simple stick puppets!
These are great for storytelling, acting out the main parts of the song, using as a counting stick to jump along a number line. You can print some numbers on spiders here and sit them out to create your own number line for the children to count along forwards and backwards.
Incy Wincy Interactive Songsheet
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!
This activity is great for promoting listening and concentration skills, and learning rhymes by memory.
Counting Number Line and Spider Stick Puppets
This fantastic Counting Activity Resource Pack from Twinkl has been created specially in conjunction with The Imagination Tree, after I asked if they could be done! These are free to download (click the link to be taken to their direct link) and are brilliant for using in nursery, homeschool or the classroom. You could simply print the number spiders and use them around the room in order, or give them to the kids to play with, playing ordering games or making number lines on a piece of washing line. There are lovely plain spiders in the kit too for doing whatever you like with, and these are prefect for turning into stick puppets (especially if you don’t have the time to make the handprint version I shared above.)
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