This week we have been embracing the coolness of spiders. Yes, they can be kind of creepy. Yes, arachnophobia is real, impacting 10% of men and 50% of women. Despite that, they can be very fascinating to learn about, and I think they are a fun creature to explore this time of year. As a group of moms, we decided to celebrate spiders for the first grade harvest party at my daughters’ school. We decided a theme would be a fun way to go. I decided to make this fun spider facts for kids printable because I can’t waste an opportunity for learning.
I am a teacher turned stay-at-home mom. When we discussed the food, crafts and activities we wanted to do with the students, we did not discuss adding fun spider facts. As I have been working to contribute to bringing it all together, I just had to add interesting characteristics of our creepy, crawly friends.
I thought it would be fun to create this printable with little “place cards” that we could set at the food table. As we introduce the food items – spider eggs, spider guts, spider juice boxes, spider donuts and spider cupcakes – we can also introduce some of the information about spiders presented on these cards.
Here are the fun facts attached to the cards:
- Spiders lay between 2 to 3000 eggs depending on the species.
- Most spiders have 8 simple eyes.
- Spiders with hair on them are mammals, and thus produce milk. UGH – UPDATE: I was absolutely wrong about this. Spiders are not mammals. I had grab this fact from an incorrect source. I cannot re-make my printable, but please don’t use this fact to teach kids.
- Giant Huntsman spiders have leg-spans of around12 inches – the length of a ruler.
- A web made of strands of spider silk as thick as a pencil could stop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet in flight.
- Some spiders eat their webs and then reuse them.
- A spider has no bones. Rather, it has an exoskeleton, which is like a hard suit of armor that protects its body.
- Most spiders live for about a year. However, some tarantulas live more than 20 years.
Those are 8 of the many facts I found. Here are 83 more amazing spider facts for you. It’s super interesting, right?
Spiders with hair are NOT mammals!!! Mammals do have hair or fur at some point in their life but also must be warm-blooded, nurse their young with mammary glands, give live birth, and breathe air with lungs. A spider is an arachnid, part of the class of animals called Arthropoda which also includes insects.
I stand corrected, and I will make sure to let people know in a correction to the post. I am so sorry for the mis-information. I had looked at a variety of sites for interesting spider facts. This is one of the ones I grabbed, but I should have looked into that more closely. Thanks!
it is kinda cool
Thanks!