{"id":21259,"date":"2022-06-16T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=21259"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:17:07","slug":"spider-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/06\/16\/spider-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children have shown an interest in spiders and today in the noisy and quiet room we decided to create our own spider puppets. We did this in the small world spider area that has been set up for the children to explore their spider interest further.<\/p>\n<p>First, we had a read over one of our favourite spider books and discussed all the different types of spiders you can get . We found out \u00a0that the first spiders lived about 300 million years ago, even before dinosaurs roamed the earth. We found out spiders are not insects and most spiders are web weaver some, weave sheet, funnel shapes webs, triangle webs and \u00a0the Orb spider spins a beautiful pattern of many \u00a0different circles .<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/E7F01EA6-433D-435A-B503-164DAE162CD7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21260\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/E7F01EA6-433D-435A-B503-164DAE162CD7-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201dThat\u2019s my favourite one \u00a0he\u2019s called the Tarantula and he is very hairy \u201c<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/015E478D-81A4-4F4B-8ED7-0A4CB128B7AC-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21261\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/015E478D-81A4-4F4B-8ED7-0A4CB128B7AC-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201dThat goddess turned into a spider\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/57656385-0924-413A-85FF-1F061604CF03-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21262\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/57656385-0924-413A-85FF-1F061604CF03-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201d This spider has got 10 legs \u201c<\/p>\n<p>we then set to work creating our own spider puppets, for this we used paper plates, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, glue, sellotape and some pencils.<br \/>\nwe began by sticking our googly eyes onto our paper plates and by doing this first it allowed us to see where the holes for our spider\u2019s legs should go.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/B1AFCB64-C27D-477D-A5C8-16997969CF20.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/B1AFCB64-C27D-477D-A5C8-16997969CF20-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/1ECF08A9-0DB6-4A7C-991C-CD2BE6CF1825-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21264\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/1ECF08A9-0DB6-4A7C-991C-CD2BE6CF1825-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/5529F19A-79B6-4FCC-9AD2-02DA4ABAFE7A-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/5529F19A-79B6-4FCC-9AD2-02DA4ABAFE7A-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c I am going to put on eight legs on my spider \u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/CCC2F9B6-3239-4A6E-8D80-2FD6CEFE9B02-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/CCC2F9B6-3239-4A6E-8D80-2FD6CEFE9B02-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201c my spider is a daddy one\u201d<\/p>\n<p>we used the tip of a pen to carefully poke holes for our fingers to go through to create the spider\u2019s legs. Some of us wanted more legs for our spider so we decided to use pipe cleaner to create more .<\/p>\n<p>look at our lovely spider\u2019s!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/EFFB568D-F92B-44C7-89E2-B65ABDEB64A8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21267\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/EFFB568D-F92B-44C7-89E2-B65ABDEB64A8-267x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/5A612F48-0493-4861-BB66-DE8DCEF16E6A-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21268\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/5A612F48-0493-4861-BB66-DE8DCEF16E6A-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/67527980-D44B-42E3-8AD5-CBA7FC06EBEA-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21269\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/67527980-D44B-42E3-8AD5-CBA7FC06EBEA-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/082303C4-D5DC-476B-A0A9-C9B77A2261E5-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21270\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/06\/082303C4-D5DC-476B-A0A9-C9B77A2261E5-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe children enjoyed making their spider puppets whilst learning lots of facts about spiders \u00a0and developing their fine motor and language skills.<br \/>\nwhy not give it a try at home and make your own spider puppet and put on a puppets show! Let us know how you get on, have fun!\ud83d\udd77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children have shown an interest in spiders and today in the noisy and quiet room we decided to create our own spider puppets. We did this in the small world spider area that has been set up for the children to explore their spider interest further. 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