Spider Themed Activities & Freebies for Speech Therapy

Spiders are a great theme to use in the month of October as an alternative to Halloween! It is also a great theme to help build background knowledge for students that will be studying or learning about spiders or arachnids in the classroom.

I hope these are helpful and if you have any suggestions for books or activities to add to this blog post, feel free to comment your suggestion(s) below!

🔴 Books 

🟠 Nonfiction Texts 

🟡 Digital Freebies 

🟢 Printable Freebies 

🔵 Free Crafts 

🟣 Videos & Online Activities

Spider Themed Books

• Story grammar: Frank the Seven Legged Spider, Aaaarrgghh! Spider!

• Younger students + story grammar: Walter’s Wonderful Web

• Nonfiction: The Spider Disgusting Critters

• Nonfiction: National Geographic Readers: Spiders

• Wordless: Be Nice to Spiders

• Fun story about the Itsy Bitsy Spider: Urgency Emergency!: Itsy Bitsy Spider

• Engaging: Diary of a Spider, Pete the Cat Itsy Bitsy Spider

Check out the whole list of spider themed book read alouds in my YouTube playlist!

Nonfiction Spider Texts

• Spiders (Kindergarten)

• Wolf Spiders (Grade 1)

• Spooky Spiders (Grade 2)

• Spider Webs & Glass (Grade 3)

• Anansi the Spider (Grade 4)

• All About Spiders (Grade 4)

• Saving Species: Chasing Spiders Down Under (Grade 5)

• Black Widow

• Tarantula

• Say Hellow to Sparklemuffin

• Sneaky Orb-Weaver Spiders Use Male Fireflies To Lure More Prey

• These Sea Spiders Feed On Methane-Eating Microbe

• "Giant" Trapdoor Spider Fossil Unearthed in Australia

• Meet Kim, The World's First "Pet" Spider That Jumps On Demand

Digital Spider Themed FREEBIES

• All About Spiders Google Slides

• Itsy Bitsy Spider Language Activities Boom Cards

• They Very Hungry Spider /r/ Boom Cards

• Aaarrrggh! Spider! Story Retell Boom Cards

Printable Spider Themed FREEBIES

• Complete and Incomplete Sentence Sort

• Bats & Spiders Nonfiction Writing for K-1

• All About Spiders

• Diary of a Spider

• Spider Activities for Older Students

• Feed the Spider /k/

• Spider Snacks (sequencing, comprehension, following directions)

• Spanish Articulation Drill Sheet

Spider Themed CRAFT Freebies

• Spider Label and Craft

• /s/ Blends Spider Craft

• Spider Craft

• Pipe Cleaner Spiders Craft (video)

• Thumbprint Open-Ended Activity

Spider Themed Videos & Online Activities

• Don’t Be Afraid of Spiders

• Spiders For Kids (with real pictures)

• The Largest Tarantula Spider in the World (animated)

• How Amazing Are Spiders (animated)

• I'm a Great Big Spider (Super Simple Songs)

• The Eensy Weensy Spider (Super Simple Songs)

I hope this has been helpful! 🫶🏽🕷️