We have been singing and reading about the Itsy Bitsy Spider and my oh my this is truly a fun song or rhyme to extend into all parts of the classroom experience including putting together some Itsy Bitsy waterplay…
For our itsy bitsy waterplay, we put a piece of gutter for the water spout, some pitchers of water, and a few spiders made out of pipecleaners into a long, shallow container with water…
All throughout the morning this center stayed busy with children washing spiders down the spout. As the children played, I would walk by and casually hum or sing “The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.” …
All morning the children poured water down the spout. They would move the spout up higher or lower at times to see what worked best too…
And then some of the children decided that it would also be fun to wash cars down the spout…
So the cars and spiders went down the spout in our itsy bitsy waterplay. This meant the words to my song had to change too! “The itsy bitsy car went up the water spout.” …
Whether it was cars or spiders going down the spout, I had children engaged in exploring water and distance and height and flow and all the while loving the process…
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