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.
Egg Fry
If you live somewhere that gets particularly hot. Take an egg outside and show
your children how that you can fry an egg on asphalt.
The Animals In The Desert
(Sung to: The Wheels
On The Bus)
Verse 1:
Jackrabbit - have your children jump in placeThe jackrabbit in the desert hops like this, hops like this, hops like this
The jackrabbit in the desert hops like this, all night long
Verse 2:
Cuff hands and howlThe coyote in the desert howls Awwww, Awww, Awww
The coyote in the desert howls Awww, all night long
Verse 3:
Have your children hiss exaggerating their tongue movementThe rattlesnake in the desert goes hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss
The rattlesnake in the desert goes hiss, hiss, hiss, all night long
Verse 4:
Have your children run in placeThe roadrunner in the desert runs fast like this, fast like this, fast like this
The roadrunner in the desert runs fast like this, all night long!
Desert Jackrabbits
Give your children Rabbit ears and let them pretend to be jackrabbits hopping
around the classroom.Alejandro's Gift
Sylvia Long, R. Albert
