Spider | Paper Bag Puppet | Printable Craft
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- 8
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Arts, Art
- Topic
- craft activity, fine motor skills
- Resource types
- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Preparation
- Print ready
About this resource
What's inside this resource
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!
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Assemble a spider puppet by following sequenced picture instructions.
Strengthen scissor and gluing control by cutting out and mounting the spider's parts.
Use the finished puppet for dramatic play and animal talk.
Teaching tips
Choose the black-and-white version when you want a coloring step, or the pre-colored realistic version for a faster assembly session.
Keep the assembled-example image visible while children work — the craft page itself tells them to use it as a build reference.
Extend the craft into a mini spider lesson: the vendor designed the realistic artwork to spark deeper connection with real animals than cartoon styles.
Have paper lunch bags, scissors, glue, and crayons ready; every step beyond printing uses them.
Skills covered
Fine motor control — children color, cut out, and glue the spider's head and body pieces onto a paper bag.
Following directions — six numbered steps with pictures sequence the build from printing to puppet play.
Dramatic play — the finished bag puppet is designed for children to 'put your hand inside and make it talk!'
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Is the spider cartoon-styled or realistic?
Realistic — the vendor commissioned lifelike artwork and provides it both in full color and in black-and-white so students can color their own, positioning it as an alternative to cartoon crafts.
What materials does the craft need beyond the printout?
A paper bag, scissors, glue, and coloring supplies if you use the black-and-white version — children cut out the pieces, glue them to the bag, and let it dry before playing.
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Paper bag puppet
Spider
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Realistic animal art
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