Perfectly Preschool



Scratchy Cactus
Materials:
  • Paper
  • Green Paint
  • Liquid Starch
  • Salt or Sand
Directions:
  • 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.


Cactus
Bring in a real cactus and let your children look at it, and explore the cactus

Spiny the Cactus
Sung to: "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

In the desert, in the hot sun, grows a cactus big and tall.
It is green and it is spiny, its the best one of them all.
Oh Spiny, oh Spiny, oh, Spiny the cactus,
You are green and you are spiny, and the best of them all!



Snake Snack
Use unbaked French bread cans(avaialable near biscuits in dairy section of grocery stores) roll out like a snake, sprinkle cinamon on snake to make snake markings, and bake per directions on package. Use two olives for eyes and red peer for mouth of snake.


Desert Babies