Desert crafts

Play with watercolors and visit the desert with this colorful contrasting art project for kindergarteners!

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 […]

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 […]

8 Desert Craft Ideas | How To Make Egg Carton Cactus. I have 8 desert craft ideas for you. Also you'll love these other ideas on my post Desert Sand Art (Colors of the Desert). And I have a fun tutorial that teaches you how to make egg carton cactus. Cactus is of course easily one of the most identifiable symbols of the desert. They offer food and shelter to many desert dwelling species and are drought tolerant. Your study can include cacti as well as animals like camels and desert lizards.

Kids will love playing with this soft. sand-like 2-ingredient "desert dough."

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, […]

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…

Venture into creative lands with these fun ideas for Wild West art for toddlers! From horse crafts to cactus silhouettes, explore the process of art!

Are you in need of a cactus pattern for your next craft? This free printable cactus template is the perfect tool to help you make creating with cacti easy!

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

Create a captivating Torn Paper Camel Collage Craft using torn brown paper from magazines and brown paper bags. Express your creativity by piecing together a textured artwork in this fun and engaging craft activity.

Here's a lesson I have posted about many times, and I think I have found the best presentation so far - so new post! Here goes - first I'll share a few pics from earlier... We have made these clay pinch pots with cacti and succulent plants for several years in 4th grade: And since starting our Artsonia portfolios, we needed a better presentation method, so we tried some different ways of photographing our 3-D works, starting with variegated tissue paper which looked a little like a sunset…

Puffy Paint Covered Cactus Craft Idea For Kids Get ready to get your hands messy with this fun and colorful cactus craft idea! Let your little ones

Camel Handprint

These Cactus Crafts come with a Free Printable Template! Make a cactus craft as a desert activity with your preschoolers or just for fun. Get the Free Cactus craft Template and instructions for this fun desert Activity for Kids! I show you step-by-step how to make the supplies and even include lots of tips to make crafting easier for groups of kids. Great for Preschool, Kindergarten, Daycare and scouts! #daycareCraft #preschoolcraft #kidcraft #CraftingJeannie

Learn how to make these easy cactus rocks. This is a simple tutorial and a fun craft for kids! Make a whole cactus rock family too!

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A simple handprint craft to make a full cactus! Perfect for preschool and kindergarten!