We learned to count to eight, and participated in many interactive readings of the book with props. Mr. Carle's books are good for the speech skills my students must master to succeed in school. Children can poke black pipe cleaners into the egg carton sections to create eight legs, then paint the spider black or color it. Use black construction paper to create a web. Fill empty glue bottles with white paint.
Children can squeeze the paint onto a piece of black construction paper to form a web.
Place the spider into the web and let the glue dry. We used glitter glue to trace over the webs, giving them the same raised effect as in The Very Busy Spider . The next day the children made spiders out of shiny, metallic paper. The spiders and the webs looked great together. The students snipped around the edge of the circle with scissors and then wound wool across the circle, slotting each strand into the scissor cuts.