How to Make a Rainbow Spider Web

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This weeks featured book is the very busy spider by Eric Carle and our theme is spider webs. I had a crazy idea that we could spin some rainbow spider webs so I gathered a few items to try.

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Supplies needed to make a rainbow spiderweb

color yarn in rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple)
black yarn to use as the base of your spiderweb
white school glue (water and a bowl to mix in)
plastic zip bag on a tray to help contain any spills

Empty a generous amount of glue into the bowl and water down with water until glue turns liquid. It shouldn’t take that much water but your water mix should still be sticky-eish if you dip your fingers into it and press down on paper.

Cut lengths of black yarn, dip them into the watered down glue mix (fully wet) and make a circle in the middle of your (closed) plastic zip bag. We are using the plastic bag because it is easier to get the dried item off it! Make a few supporting lines with black yarn.

Start from the centre out with your rainbow yarn lengths. Make sure your yarns are close else they are going to come apart when you lift them when they are dry. Cut as many lengths as needed to complete. When we got the the outer colors we cut 2-4 lengths to go around.

My toddler also did this activity! She dipped the yarn and passed them to me, she had a fabulous time poking everything too. Preschoolers can totally do this one by themselves.

Place your tray on a flat area to dry overnight.

I added in a black yarn frame at the last minute so we would have something to hang it by. As we see in the book which we read for this activity (the very busy spider) the spider spins her web bit by bit on a frame as we created with this rainbow spider web!

Yes, my toddler loves this book too! 😉 It was actually read like 4 times before this activity took place. lol

Our rainbow spider web is almost ready for show! We are making a trip to the store this morning to get ourselves a spider to decorate it with 😀

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