diff --git a/packages/skia/src/sksg/Recorder/commands/Shaders.ts b/packages/skia/src/sksg/Recorder/commands/Shaders.ts
index 8d93b568b1..3a8de49a88 100644
--- a/packages/skia/src/sksg/Recorder/commands/Shaders.ts
+++ b/packages/skia/src/sksg/Recorder/commands/Shaders.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ const declareShader = (
   const shader = ctx.track(
     source.makeShaderWithChildren(
       processUniforms(source, uniforms),
-      ctx.shaders.splice(0, children),
+      ctx.shaders.splice(Math.max(0, ctx.shaders.length - children), children),
       m3
     )
   );
diff --git a/packages/skia/src/sksg/__tests__/ShaderChildren.spec.tsx b/packages/skia/src/sksg/__tests__/ShaderChildren.spec.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1e41681538
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/skia/src/sksg/__tests__/ShaderChildren.spec.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import React from "react";
+
+import { importSkia } from "../../renderer/__tests__/setup";
+import type { SkImage } from "../../skia/types";
+import { SkiaSGRoot } from "../Reconciler";
+
+const SIZE = 16;
+
+// mix() with a runtime uniform keeps both children alive through the SkSL
+// optimizer, so the effect always reports two children and returns the first.
+const FIRST_CHILD = `
+uniform shader c0;
+uniform shader c1;
+uniform float w;
+
+half4 main(float2 xy) {
+  return mix(c0.eval(xy), c1.eval(xy), w);
+}`;
+
+const colorAt = (image: SkImage, x: number, y: number) => {
+  const pixels = image.readPixels() as Uint8Array;
+  const offset = (y * image.width() + x) * 4;
+  return [pixels[offset], pixels[offset + 1], pixels[offset + 2]];
+};
+
+describe("Shader children", () => {
+  it("resolves the children of a nested multi-child shader", async () => {
+    const { Skia } = importSkia();
+    const source = Skia.RuntimeEffect.Make(FIRST_CHILD)!;
+    expect(source).toBeTruthy();
+    const root = new SkiaSGRoot(Skia);
+    await root.render(
+      <skFill>
+        <skShader source={source} uniforms={{ w: 0 }}>
+          <skColorShader color="red" />
+          <skShader source={source} uniforms={{ w: 0 }}>
+            <skColorShader color="green" />
+            <skColorShader color="blue" />
+          </skShader>
+        </skShader>
+      </skFill>
+    );
+    const surface = Skia.Surface.Make(SIZE, SIZE)!;
+    root.drawOnCanvas(surface.getCanvas());
+    surface.flush();
+    const image = surface.makeImageSnapshot();
+    root.unmount();
+    // The inner shader must consume the two shaders declared under it, leaving
+    // red as the first child of the outer one.
+    expect(colorAt(image, SIZE / 2, SIZE / 2)).toEqual([255, 0, 0]);
+  });
+});