At a Glance
This Build an Itsy Bitsy Spider craft has preschool, kindergarten and other young learners cutting out the pieces and sticking them together to create their very own friendly spider. The hands-on activity strengthens scissor skills, fine motor control and concentration, then doubles as a storytelling prop for acting out the nursery rhyme. Color and black-and-white templates are both included.
Here’s another fun nursery rhyme activity – a cute build an itsy bitsy spider craft!
This simple nursery rhyme activity is great for developing your child’s cutting and sticking skills, and an awesome chance to practice some pencil control and fine motor skills as well!
There’s a color and a plain template – so your little ones can choose the colors and decorate their little spider as they wish.
If you’re a teacher, this simple craft could also make a lovely nursery rhyme activity for the classroom!
You can browse all the other printable cut and paste crafts here and check out this article if you want to learn more about the benefits of nursery rhymes!
What Skills Can Your Children Learn And Practice?
When making this itsy bitsy spider, your children will have the chance to practice and develop some skills such as:
- Cutting Skills – if you feel they’re ready, you can let them have a go at cutting out the pieces all by themselves – they’ll need to be careful and have good scissor control if they want to cut out the pieces neatly
- Fine Motor Skills – when they’re sticking and picking up and moving the parts and placing them where they need to go
- Pencil Control – if you print off the black and white version they can practice their pencil control and develop hand strength through coloring.
This simple craft will also give them a chance to practice their concentration and perseverance skills as they may find it tricky to place the pieces exactly where they want them to go.
How To Prepare This Build a Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft
First you’re going to want to download the simple nursery rhyme craft by clicking on the download box at the bottom of the page.
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Other materials you’ll need:
- Safety scissors
- Card stock or Craft paper
- Some good glue
- Some coloring pencils or pens
Once you’ve downloaded the templates, you’ll need to print them off onto paper or card.
Then, you can cut them out. Or if you’d like your children to get some cutting practice, you can let them have a go.
Then you can stick all the pieces together to make incy wincy spider.
It can be really nice to let you’re kids have a bit of free rein here and see if they can work it out – kind of like a puzzle.
If they’re struggling, the order I’d do it in is:
- Stick hat to the head
- Stick the head to the body
- Stick the legs on (or stick it all to a piece of paper and draw on the legs if they’re a bit fiddly)
(I expect you could have worked that out but I do like to be thorough…)
The finished one should look something like this:
Lovely stuff!
If you want to, you could always laminate the pieces before putting them together and use them as a puzzle. That way, the different parts would be kept nice and they can use them again and again.
After that you’re all done!
Let your kids practice their cutting and sticking skills in a simple and fun way!
But Wait… There’s Also A Black And White Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft Template!
I’ve also made a black and white version which would be an awesome way for your little ones to practice their coloring skills and personalize their spider in their own way!
So why not crack out the pens, crayons, paints or collage (or all of them if you’re feeling adventurous) and let your kids get creative!
I’d love to hear about what they create!
Enjoy and let’s nurture those neurons!
