Spider Web Letter Sort

Today two or three bins become spider webs! Your little one tapes a web across the top of each bin, gives each web a letter, then pokes letter cards through the gaps into the right web. It's sorting, letter practice and a little bit of spider magic.

What you need

• 2 or 3 bins, boxes or baskets

• Painter's tape

• Index cards and a thick marker (or magnetic letters or letter blocks)

• Optional: a toy spider or a pom-pom spider to "guard" each web

How to do it

1. Make the webs. Stick strips of painter's tape across the top of each bin, crossing in the middle like a web. Leave gaps big enough for a card to slip through.

2. Label each web. Write a big letter on a card and tape it to the front of each bin. Start with G and one other letter your child knows, like A or S.

3. Make the cards. Write the same letters on 8 to 12 cards, a few of each.

4. Sort it. Your child picks a card, says the letter and pokes it through the web into the matching bin: "G! That goes in the G web."

5. Count the catch. Pull out the cards and count how many each web caught.

Why we love it

Sorting things into groups is a big early thinking skill, and matching letters by shape is how kids start to read. Poking cards through the gaps is great hand work too, and the webs make it feel like a game.

Tips from our table

• Two-year-olds do best with two letters that look very different, like G and T.

• Ready for more? Add a third bin, or sort lowercase letters into the uppercase webs.

• No tape? Lay yarn across the bins and tie it underneath.

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• Clear storage bins

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• Oxford index cards

• Crayola washable markers

• Craft yarn

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More for this week: see all our Spider activities, Letter G activities and Number 7 activities.

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