‘Empty’, ‘hot’, ‘dry’, and ‘lifeless’ are some of the common words that we use to connect with desert. But, deserts are not lifeless. Even though the amount of water available is less, deserts are home to a variety of animals, plants, and other organisms. Let us teach kids how to portray beautiful deserts by making them practise on desert drawing activity. 

Vast areas of barren land with sandy mountains, dunes, cacti, camels, palm trees etc., are some of the common images that come to our mind when we think of deserts. BYJU’S desert drawing for kids activity offers an opportunity for them to visualise the image of a desert and to portray their creative ideas. Exercising desert drawing easy for kids helps them develop their organising and presentation skills as well. Moreover, it helps them grab a basic idea about geometric shapes, colour mixing, designing etc. 

Think Before You Act

Have you ever heard the term desertification before? Desertification is a type of land degradation in which the land loses its productivity due to natural processes, climatic variations, and human activities. It is not the expansion of the existing desert but the formation of new desert areas as a result of the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. If it continues, the entire land on earth will get deserted, and numerous living organisms will go extinct. The future of our earth is in the hands of upcoming generations. They have to be made aware of the necessity of controlling desertification and conserving nature. Including activities like desert drawing easy for kids not only simplifies kids’ learning but also develops a social awareness in their minds. The following images on BYJU’S desert drawing for kids will help them develop a basic idea about the consequences of desertification. 

Drawing Desert

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Colouring Desert

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Tips on Desert Drawing for Kids

Drawing and colouring exercises are widely included in kids’ learning processes all across the world. It helps to increase their interest and active participation in learning. The following tips on dessert drawing for kids are easy to follow and help them create a sublime portrait of a desert. 

• As the foremost part of drawing a desert, ask kids to visualise the image they are trying to depict. 
• It will be better to sketch the image in a landscape mode, as the portrait requires more space. Kids can draw a vast area of sandy terrains with cactus plants grown randomly. If interested in drawing, kids can add more details like the image of a camel, cactus plant, palm trees, blue sky with clouds, etc., to make the image appear more impressive.
• Be confident with the images that have to be included in the portrait. Divide the spaces for each image accordingly and start sketching the outline using a pencil. 
• Use a pencil and a ruler to sketch the frame of the picture. Draw straight lines on the four sides of the paper to form the frame, and start sketching the picture fitting inside it. 
• Drawing the image of a desert is a slightly complicated task when compared with topics like trees, flowers, fruits, etc. As the picture is big and rich with multiple images, the possibility of committing mistakes is high for kids. When sketched with a pencil, they can easily erase and clear those errors and rework them to improve the precision. 
• Kids can apply drawing techniques like shading and rendering to bring a sandstorm effect to the drawings. Adding such effects will help kids to make their portraits appear more original. 
• Use indelible markers only after the completion of the entire sketch. 
• Applying the right set of colours is one of the crucial areas of drawing a desert. Be more focused while choosing and mixing colours. 
• Use a dark colour to fill the frame of the portrait. Choosing a dark frame will help kids to make their portrait appear more attractive. 

With proper guidance and instructions, drawing and colouring become an unchallenging learning activity. Kids can use similar drawing pattern exercises to refine their ideas on drawing pictures. Also, exercising such activities will help their young minds to think out of the box. For more worksheets, essays, poems, etc., visit BYJU’S website.