Webs of Color

Part 5 of the 5 Posts of Fright series

Did you know that a spider's silk has a tensile strength 300 times that of steel?  First graders learned this as well as the fact that spiders didn't always use their webs to catch food, but rather used it to pad their nests, learning along the way that they could build webs to catch tasty treats!

After learning these facts, the students learned how to create both sheet and orb style webs, then used their white glue (slow and steady!) to create the a web on black paper.

After drying time (next class) the students used colored chalk to color over the web (the glee keeps the chalk from binding to the paper, so the web shows through) creating a wonderful example of pos/neg relationships and looks almost like a stained glass window!