Incy Wincy Spider Craft

Incy Wincy Spider crafts are perfect for autumn or Halloween and with spiders taking over our garden and house at the moment we thought it would be fun to make a toy spider. As we have been having so much fun singing nursery rhymes lately we decided to make rain, a sunshine and a drain pipe along ith our spider craft so we could act out the nursery rhyme 'Incy Wincy Spider'.

It is so much fun making props to go with nursery rhymes to get children really engaged with them. Nursery rhymes are really important for young children. They help to develop language among many other things. Read our article on the importance of nursery rhymes to find out more or to check out our list of nursery rhymes for different ages. 

If your child really engages with this incy wincy spider craft they may enjoy taking a look at some of our other spider crafts too. 

As an alternative, you could make a pipe cleaner spider or conker spider in place of the egg carton spider. This spider web craft is also fun for working on fine motor skills (younger children will need a little help). 

Incy Wincy Spider Craft

Incy Wincy Spider Craft Supplies:

• egg box
• pipe cleaners
• googly eyes
• paint
• thread
• card
• yellow collage
• blue tinsel

How to make Incy Wincy Spider:

1. Cut out and paint a section of an egg box. 
2. Once dry make 4 holes on each side of the egg box and poke the pipe cleaners through for the legs. 
3. Add googly eyes and a smile. 
4. Put a piece of thread through the top of your spider so you can make him dangle. 

For the drain pipe cover a piece of cardboard in kitchen foil. Make a sunshine from yellow card. We covered ours with yellow items from our collage box. Tinsel makes great rain. Put a bit of tape around the top of it to create a handle.

Use the incy wincy spider props to sing-a-long to the popular nursery rhyme

Harry has played with it every day since making it, either singing the song or chasing his dad around the house with the spider.

Incy Wincy Spider

Incy Wincy spider climbed up the water spout,

Down came the rain and washed the spider out,

Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain,

and Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the spout again.

Harry: Age 2

After making this fun Incy Wincy spider craft why not use our printable spider coloring sheet to make a cute 3D spider craft!