Desert preschool activities

This Water the Desert Activity is perfect for exploring earth science and practicing fine motor skills with your preschoolers.

Preschoolers can learn a lot from deserts. It teaches them about different animals, like spiders, snakes, and camels; and plants, such as cactus and elephant trees. Topics on deserts also help the little ones understand the weather and how water is important to all living things. Teaching preschoolers about deserts can be fun and exciting ... Read more

Build your own desert with this fun play dough activity for kids! We love adding interesting things to play dough – it makes it a whole new activity every time. This is perfect for a unit on desert animals. I mixed up some homemade play dough and added real play sand. You can find the […]

Free printable number recognition activity is great for your math center or small group activity. It also helps develop fine motor skills.

Make this easy paper mosaic cactus craft for kids using our free cactus template. Perfect for practicing easy scissor skills too!

These fun desert themed yoga cards and printables are the perfect activity to incorporate movement into your lesson plans. Great to use in the classroom, OT, PT, daycare or at home. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten and up. #kidsyoga

Mix up some 3 ingredient SAND SLIME! We’ll show you how to make it! This is a fun slime vacation for summer, although it’s fun anytime. We love making slime, and we love Safari Toob animals. Recently we combined the two with a simple sand slime recipe. It’s perfect for playing with desert animal toys, […]

Preschoolers love sensory activities and here's an awesome one to add to your next preschool desert theme. We're going to have lots of fun creating a desert oasis and talking about how people and animals cool off in the Sahara!

My daughter loves creepy crawly creatures. Yesterday, we had a family photo shoot with a photographer in a nearby field. There was a snake slithering through the field where our photos were being taken. While the rest of us tried our best to avoid the snake, my daughter went towards it. “I want to see the […]

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