Spider Webs

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 I love this lesson! It teaches students how to use lines in a picture. And what better way than to teach students how to make a spider web.
It's a great review of types of lines. We covered straight and curved lines in this lesson, of course they love it!

Supplies used:
9 x 12 inch white paper
white oil pastel (white crayon)
Black or blue liquid water color
Brushes
For this lesson I did a teacher led demonstration on how to draw a spiderweb using a pencil. I love to practice before going straight into a lesson. Especially something like this with first grade.
So, day 1 is practice. Day 2 they show me what they have learned by using a white oil pastel to draw their spider web, and yes you can see it on the white paper. Once they have drawn their spider web it's time to add the liquid watercolor.


I have three first grade classes to do this with so recycling the liquid watercolor works.
My example

Adding the spider
Once they were dry we used black pom poms to create a spider. We glued it to our papers and added 8 legs using a black marker.
Early finishers coloring a spider coloring sheet

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