Up came the sun, and dried up all the rainĪnd Incy Wincy spider went climbing up again. Itsy Bitsy Spider Presented by Marguerite Bilm The ' Itsy Bitsy Spider ' adapted book was created by Marguerite Bilm for her preschool students. In other versions, “crawled” is replaced with “climbed” or” went” “Incy Wincy Spider” Alternative Versionĭown came the rain, and washed poor Incy out. Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,Īnd the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again”
“The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout.ĭown came the rain, and washed the spider out. The rhyme has more than one accepted versions as it follows: “Itsy Bitsy Spider” Lyrics
The kids have to mimic its movements while singing the song, a very entertaining activity, useful to improve their manual dexterity. It tells the adventures of a Spider, named Itsy Bitsy (or Incy Wincy – more popular in England) who is going up and down, and up again, as the weather is chaining. “Itsy Bitsy Spider”, more often recited than sung, is a finger-play rhyme for children. The spirited itsy bitsy spider has captured the hearts of generations of children in the much-loved nursery rhyme. It appears as a nursery rhyme in 1948 in the American Folk Songs for Children a collection by Mike and Peggy Seeger and in 1955 in Maxwell Slutz Stewart’ book “The Growing Family: A Guide for Parents”. The actual version of “Itsy Bitsy Spider” was later printed in 1947 by the California Folklore Society in the Western Folklore collection. It was first published in 1920, more as a song for adults in “Camp and camino in lower California” with the words “blooming, bloody” instead of “itsy bitsy”. “Itsy Bitsy Spider” or “Incy Wincy Spider” is a modern nursery rhyme that is very popular among children.