Scratchy Cactus
Materials:- Paper
- Green Paint
- Liquid Starch
- Salt or Sand
- Have your children outline a cactus on light green or white construction paper. Then provide them with a mixture of liquid starch, salt, and green tempura paint. Let your children paint their cactuses. When they dry they will fill scratchy.
Desert Scene
Materials:- Paint
- Paper
- Various Other Art Supplies
- Give your children the
materials and tell them to create a desert scene.
Some great scenes that my children have done are: - One child used different colored chalks (red, pink, purple, and yellow) to make streaks (sunset) on black paper while gluing on green cactuses.
- Another child painted a ghost town.
Cactus
Materials:- Potato or cucumber or paper or play dough
- Toothpicks
- Paint
- Either give your children a potato with the bottom cut off or a piece of paper cut into the shape of a cactus. Let them stick toothpicks in it and paint it to make it look like a cactus.
Adobe House
Materials:- Paper
- Paint
- Sand
- Make a house outline on a piece of paper. Then give them brown or tan paint mixed with sand. Let them paint the house to form an Adobe House.
Sand Painting
Materials:- Glue
- Sand
- Have your children paint a picture with glue. They can then sift sand on top of their picture. This will cause their painting to look like it was painted with sand!