Learn the numbers 1-20 with this creative Incy Wincy Spider Game! In this dice game, your spider piece needs to be the first to get to the top. Preschoolers will love playing this nursery rhyme inspired game!
Alas, by whichever name you call it, this Incy Wincy Spider Game is the same : )
This fun game is great for:
Counting Skills
Number Recognition
Turn-Taking
Building Number Sense
Fine Motor Skills
Incy Wincy Spider Game
For our second week of Playful Preschool, I set up learning activities with a nursery rhyme theme. Other nursery rhymes activities were inspired by: Five Little Monkeys, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and Three Blind Mice.
This math game was inspired by Incy Wincy Spider.
Race to 20 Incy Wincy Spider Game
Supplies:
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- two small clothespins
- two adhesive spider stickers or small plastic spiders
- markers
- numbered die
- yellow construction paper
- glue stick
- scissors
This clever math game uses a paint stick (aka paint stir stick) as the "gameboard." The paint stick is the "water spout" in the nursery rhyme!
First, you'll need to decorate the "water spout," i.e. paint stick using markers. I drew raindrops and some flowers on our paint stick.
On a separate piece of paper I drew a sun, cut it out, and glued it to the top of the paint stick.
Our paint stick was long enough to make 20 marks, which I kinda eyeballed.. but you can choose what number you'd like to "race to" and fit the numbers on the paint stick accordingly.
Next stick the adhesive spider stickers to the clothespins.
Grab someone to play with and you are all set!
How to play
Simply roll the die and move that many spaces "up the waterspout" (ie. paint stick).
First to reach the sun, wins! Oh, and bonus that this math game is also working on fine motor skills!
** If working on basic addition skills, you could make a die with addition facts on them for your child to answer OR roll two dice and have your child add the numbers together to move up the paint stick waterspout!
** Now that you made it up the paint stick waterspout, "down comes the rain".... play the game backwards and see who makes it down the paint stick waterspout first!
** Don't forget to sing this simple nursery rhyme, too!
The Incy Wincy Spider went up the waterspout,
Down came the rain, and
Washed the spider out.
Out comes the sun
and dried up all the rain,
And the Incy Wincy Spider
Went up the spout again.
More Preschool Nursery Rhyme Theme Activities:
Literacy:
- ABC Maze on the driveway
- Sang 5 Little Monkeys Nursery Rhyme and wrote M's all over a chalkboard that Little Sis 'erased' with water and a qtip.
- Borax and Glue Gak; we used black colored glue and sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
Extra Fun:
- Fall Leaf Rhyme; as I said the rhyme all three kiddos threw leaves bought from the craft store into the air. We "raked" them up with our fingers, and did it all over again!
- Five Little Monkeys Fine Motor Activity
- Race to 20 Game
- Mouse Sorting and Sizing Activity inspired by Three Blind Mice
In case you missed it, check out our first week of Playful Preschool Spice Up Your Name Activity for our Five Senses theme!
Plan your preschool year, too with our Weekly Theme Ideas & Printable Planning Sheet!
Awesome idea!!!!
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