Spider Games for Kindergarten

Colored Web

• Have all your kindergartners sit in a circle and hand each person a different color ball of yarn. Help the children tie the yarn loosely around their waists. When you say, "Toss," the children have to toss the ball of yarn to someone in the circle. Make sure each person catches a ball of yarn after each toss and wraps it loosely around his waist. Keep doing this until the children run out of yarn. This will create a large colored spider web. If you want to make it a game, award a prize to the first five players who can get untangled from the web.

Spin for Spiders

• Divide the class into teams of two to six children each. Place a large metal spinner in the middle of a poster board. Metal spinners are available online and at many craft stores. Use a marker to make four sections on the poster. Write "In" on two sections and "Out" on two sections. Place two piles of plastic spiders on the poster board. Give each player a small basket. The first player spins the spinner. If it lands on "In," she puts a spider in her basket. If it lands on "Out," she must take a spider out of her basket (if she has one in there). The first player to get five spiders in her basket wins the game.

Spider Bingo

• You can teach children spider names and how they look with this bingo game. Make bingo cards with different types of spiders in each square. Some examples include a brown recluse, a black widow, cane and a tarantula. Put the picture and the name in each square so the children can learn the names with the pictures. Write the spider names on small slips of paper and place them in a bowl. Give each child a bowl of plastic spiders to use as bingo markers. Call out the names of spiders and the first child to get a bingo wins the game.

Find the Spider

• Tie a piece of yarn several yards long to a plastic spider ring for each child in the class. Hide the end of the yarn tied to the spider under a desk or in a drawer. String the yarn all over the classroom to create a large spider web. Place the ends of each string where the children can see them. Have each child find the end of a string and find his spider ring attached to the end by following the string. Award a large plush spider to the child who finds his spider first.