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FLOWERING CACTUS
- Using the large cactus pattern, make a green cactus shape
for each of your children.
- Give your children some glue in a cup with some Q-Tips,
plus some small straw or silk flowers.
- Have your children place a drop of glue on their cactus,
then place a small flower on top.
- Show your children pictures of flowering cactus, so they
understand what they are making.
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PRICKLY
CACTUS
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Once again, make a large green cactus cutout
for each of your children. |
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Next, take a package of thin flat wooden toothpicks
and break a number of them into 2 or 3 pieces. |
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Have your children glue the wooden pieces all
over their cactus. |
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STAND-UP CACTUS
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You can turn either of the two large cactus
above into a stand-up cactus by gluing it to the front of a
clean toilet tissue tube. |
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If you prefer, you can use a paper towel roll cut in-half.
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Using the medium or small pattern, make 2 - 3 green cactus
for each of your children.
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| Give your children a piece
of light blue construction paper and brush glue across the bottom
half of the paper. |
| Next, give your children a large
box lid to set their paper into and a cup of sand to sprinkle
on top of their paper. |
| When the sand dries on their
papers, have your children glue the cactus sitting on the sand. |
FELT BOARD NUMBER RHYME
- Cut out three medium or large cactus shapes from
green felt.
- Make a blue felt board with brown felt on the
bottom to represent the desert.
- Place cactus on the board as the poem below indicates.
DESERT CACTUS
One giant cactus
Under skies so blue,
Called to a friend,
Now there are two.
Two giant cactus
As big as two trees,
Called to a friend,
Now there are three.
Three giant cactus
Wanting one more,
Called to a friend,
Now there are four.
Jean
Warren
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