Charlotte's Web Program Ideas

Crafts and Activities:

• Make a blue ribbon nametag
• Charlotte's Web Coloring Pages
• Create pink pigs from pink paper plates, paper, and pipecleaners
• Make pipecleaner spiders
• Play Spider Toss (a spider web and create a bulls-eye game out of it. Each section will be a different color. The player will toss the spider onto the spider web and win a prize corresponding to the color the spider lands on)
• Play Templeton's Trash Trough where the kids will "fish" for candy and spider rings with a magnetic fishing pole. The goodies will be covered up with trash (crumpled up paper).
• Make a Toilet Paper Spider Web- using a roll of toilet paper, participants spread out and throw toilet paper from one person to the next, creating a web effect.
• Preschool Pig Parade - This is basically a special pig story time -but a local farmer will be bringing in a real, live piglet
• Spider crafts, games, and snacks.
• A Charlotte's Web book discussion for 3rd-5th graders
• Creature Feature - A wildlife expert is bringing in real spiders
• Avery Egg Toss - kids throw Styrofoam eggs through Avery's egg basket
• Spider Fling (kids throw pipe cleaner spiders at a spider web to make them "stick")
• Charlotte's Word Web- Children create their own word (to describe Wilbur) and added it to our 12 foot spider web
• Create a farm animal friend
• Make paper spiders and have the kids glue on their legs
• Parachuting spiders: make spiders out of pipe cleaners and "parachutes" out of coffee filters, attached to the spiders with yarn.
• Feed Wilbur: make bean bag toss of a pig with his mouth open
• Making web collages- kids can look through discarded magazines for words to include in their webs. Make the webs from string or yarn, maybe provide printouts of a spider's web picture, maybe paper doilies or paper snowflakes.
• Animal sounds - give each kid pictures of different animals, they had to find the other people with the same animal by making that animal sound
• Egg Carry - just use Styrofoam eggs and have the kids carry them on spoons.
• Have a pig calling contest with each kid shouting out Sooo-ey! or snorting like a pig
• Make spiders from marshmallows, using pretzel sticks for legs and raisins for eyes
• Invite a spider expert and a hog farmer who will talk about the creatures.

Tips

• Read little passages from the book that to explain why you are doing each activity

Web Resources:

http://www.walden.com/web/teach/home

Charlotte's Web Materials

Harpercollins Charlotte's Web Printables