Spider | Paper Bag Puppet | Printable Craft

Let students creativity crawl wild with this printable paper bag spider puppet craft! Perfect for retelling stories, dramatic imaginative play, and engaging science lessons on arachnids.

The complete resource includes an assembled spider template featuring all of a spider's body parts. This has everything needed for students to craft, customize, and animate their unique eight-legged friends. Just add a paper bag!

Start by having students color and cut out the paper bag template parts including the foldable bottom, sides, and flap top. Glue together into a standard bag formation. Then have students think about their spider’s personality – will it be silly or serious? Friendly or sneaky?

The coordinating props lend themselves beautifully to open-ended creative play as students animate their spiders in webs and nets while munching on fly snacks. Acting out authentic behaviors and scenarios facilitates science connections, bringing key concepts like anatomy, habitats, adaptation and more to life in an engaging, hands-on manner.

Cross-curricular projects can extend learning further with students applying literacy skills to storyboard and perform original spider-themed puppet shows or conduct research to design factual habitat dioramas. Photos of students with their completed puppets also make for wonderful bulletin board displays documenting this STEAM-rich craftivity fusion.

Let creativity take hold as students construct their unique spider paper bag puppets and ignite imaginative play merged with impactful science learning!