How does a Spider Eat?

I have the best SPIDER SCIENCE ACTIVITY, and it’s a FREEBIE!! This is a classroom favorite every year!

Read on to see what all I do with Spiders. 

I love to add a little spider information around Halloween. 

This year I did an entire week of spiders! 

I bought an amazing unit from Clutter Free Classroom. 

Everything in this Spider Unit was perfect!

I did make my own vocabulary posters to hang-I like for my kids to have a color visual of their vocabulary words. Find these here! 

 Here are some of things we did this week!

I told you the Clutter Free Classroom Unit is amazing!

Now check out my favorite, the experiment!

Here are the steps to this totally awesome experiment!

Get my FREEBIE here.

STEP 1 - I always do this whole group on the floor. 

I have the kids get the Spider Food! paper (in the packet) 

and a clipboard. 

I give each child a little white cup, 

they draw a spider web on the cup. 

CUP=the SPIDER WEB

STEP 2 - Add the sugar cube to the cup. 

We answer #1. 

We discuss how the insect gets stuck in the net, 

and how the spider wraps the insect in silk.

SUGAR CUBE = INSECT

STEP 3 - The spider uses its fangs to paralyze its prey. 

The kids pretended the straws were fangs.

STRAW = FANGS

STEP 4 - The spider dribbles digestive juices on the insect turning its insides from a solid to a liquid.

GREEN DRINK = DIGESTIVE JUICES

    

    STEP 5 - The Spider slurps out the insect’s insides. 

                All that is left of the insect is wings and skin.

              Have the kids look in the bottom of their cup!

HAVE FUN!!!

Click below for the experiment!