Desert crafts preschool

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

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 […]

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 […]

These paper plate snakes are a fun and frugal craft for kids to make. The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you! We love simple paper plate crafts! We used a simple collage technique to make the pattern on the snake - it looks really effective! To make these snakes we used: White paper plates White glue Small pieces of construction paper and tissue paper in greens/browns/yellows…

Handprint cactus

Desert sunset painting for kids

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, […]

Cactus Craft Students created a sensory cactus craft by adding dyed rice to a cactus made from green construction paper. At the bottom of the paper, students sprinkled orange “sand” (dyed salt). They used tissue paper to make fruit for the cactus and black poppy seeds for the seeds of the fruit.