Sandpaper Lizards

We recently moved to Arizona, and the house we have moved into has lizards EVERYWHERE.  They are on the walls, on the ground, crawling through the outdoor toys.  I’ve never seen so many lizards converge on one spot before.  I’ve counted four different types.  Obviously this has stirred up some curiosity, so I decided we needed to make a lizard since the boys were not fast enough to catch one.  Believe me, they have tried. and tried and tried. 

This craft was a lot of fun.  It is simple and easy.  You can make this complicated for older children by having them do designs on the lizards, or you can make this very simple for a young toddler to just color and experience the texture of the sandpaper.  You can buy colored sandpaper to use over the plain brown if you wouold like.

Things you need:

• Sandpaper
• Lizard cut out
• Black marker
• Crayons
• Scissors

I found some cool lizard color sheets here, or you can look and find one on another website or in a coloring book.

Print out a lizard that the child would like.

Cut it, making a template. 

Trace the lizard onto the sandpaper with the black marker.  (This will ruin the tip of the marker.) 

Have the child color the lizard with crayons. 

Cut out the lizard, which will sharpen the scissors.  (My boys refused to let me cut out their lizards.)