Spider Themed Light Table Activity for Kids
I found some colorful spider string lights at the dollar store recently. Each string of lights cost $2. I wasn't planning on hanging spider lights around my house as I don't really like spiders that much. Instead, I wanted to pull the spiders off of the individual lights so that they could go on the light table. And it worked like a charm because they look pretty cool on the light table.
I placed some cut up pieces of yarn on the light table along with the spiders so that the boys could build some spiderwebs. You could also have your child help cut up the yarn for some good scissor practice.
J initially used the yarn to make letter spiderwebs for the spiders. You can see his letter C below.
K used a blob-and-go kind of approach. He grabbed a handful of yarn, placed it on the light table, and put a spider on top. Voila! Instant spiderweb!
K also enjoyed adding multiple spiders to one web.
Then J started using the entire light table to make a really large spiderweb for all of the spiders to happily live and play on.
This activity was such a fun way to introduce spiders to the boys. And it makes a great activity for Halloween since that's coming up pretty quickly!
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