We got into the Halloween spirit at Long Key Nature Center, where we learned about spiders and their webs in a weekly class for the littlest scientists.
We started by comparing spiders and insects, particularly how many legs each has. Zelda noted that the ant model was red, like the actual red ant that bit her foot three times during a nature walk at Long Key a few weeks prior, but unlike our ant model, which is brown. She also noted that the spiders on the plastic table cloth were "wrong" because they only had six legs. We played a spinner game (probability) and then recorded our data on a bar graph.
Then it was time to make a golden web (in honor of the Golden Orb-Weavers that live in the surrounding trees) with glitter and glue, both of which ended up in Zelda's hair and other inappropriate places. She also got to "weave" white yarn around a notched black plastic plate to form a web. Both crafts were taped to the wall near our front door because they were adorable and I didn't want to do any actual decorating for Halloween. We finished the class with a little nature walk, where we counted spiders, spied a turtle and a heron, and did not get bitten by anything.
She's hugging the spider model. "I love him."
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