My daughter loves learning about animal facts and then telling them to me. One of her favourite sets of animals (besides rainforest animals are desert animals. Being the mommy that I am, I wanted to see how much she knew about where animals live. I also wanted to help her work on her fine motor skills and so I created this fun Desert Animal Cut and Paste Sort for her.
Desert Animal Books to Check Out from Your Library
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Creatures of the Desert WorldDesert Animals and Plants for Kids: Habitat Facts, Photos and Fun | Children’s Environment Books Edition
Many Biomes, One Earth
Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry?: All About Deserts (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)
Way Out in the Desert
What Animals Live in the Desert? Animal Book 4-6 Years Old | Children’s Animal Books
Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats
Who Pooped in the Sonoran Desert? – Scat and Tracks for Kids
Who Lives Here? Desert Animals
- Desert Animals Cut and Paste Sort pack (at the end of the post)
USING THE DESERT ANIMAL CUT AND PASTE SORT PACK
- Print both the board game (main sorting page) as well as the animals.
- Cut out the animals and have your child identify them.
- Let them tell you as much as they can and be sure to see if they know where they live.
- Have them sort the animals under the two categories: lives in the desert and does not live in the desert.
- Once sorted, they can glue the animals in their respective sections.
Try some of these desert animal activities in your desert animal lesson plan!
- Desert Sand Alphabet Writing Tray by Mom Inspired Life
- Desert Animal Writing Prompt by The Educator’s Spin On It
- Desert Animal Game for Preschoolers by Life Over C’s
- Desert Sunset Paintings by Still Playing School
Devany says
Great idea for desert animals!
Anna says
This is really great, Alecia! I pinned it. And I really, really like how you have your printables set up now. So easy to see where to get the file. It’s the best I’ve seen anywhere. I wish I knew how to set mine up this way. 🙂
alecia says
Thanks so much Anna! That means a lot.
Traci says
Where do you print the animals?
alecia says
Hi Traci. Simply click the blue button at the end of the post that says CLICK TO DOWNLOAD. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Khawlah says
Wow it is a great activity for students to identify desert animals.