Dinosaur Puzzle

Use heavy stock white paper with a dinosaur pattern drawn on
Children paint the dinosaur.  Cut dinosaur out and cut into puzzle pieces.

Dinosaur Play Dough

Make your favorite play dough recipe, color it green.  Make sure you have
 dinosaur cookie cutters, plastic Easter eggs, plastic volcanoes, and
 plastic dinosaurs, available with your other play dough accessories

Dino Alphabet Puzzles

Cut 26 identical dinosaur shapes from poster board.  Use a felt-tip marker
 to print uppercase letters at the tops of the shapes and corresponding
 lowercase letters at the bottoms. Cut each dinosaur shape into two puzzle
 pieces.  Give the children the pieces and let them take turns and putting
 the puzzles together by matching the uppercase and lowercase letters. 

Sensory Table Idea

Fill a plastic tub with clean aquarium gravel or filler, add small
 plastic or rubber dinosaurs, and have the children find them.

Ooey-Gooey Dino Fun

Take plastic dinosaurs and put them in glue-clay (white glue and starch).
 This is a good time to talk about tar, possibly even extend
 the discussion to natural resources with older children. 

Build a Dino Land

Set out rocks, plastic plants, toy dinosaurs and boxes of dirt or wet sand.
 Let your children arrange the rocks, plants, and dinosaurs in the boxes
to create dinosaur habitats or let the children build a dinosaur
 land with clay, paper, blocks, or other miscellaneous items.

Clayosaurus

Give the children some clay to make a dinosaur.

Shaving Cream

Use plastic dinosaurs and volcanoes at table time with shaving cream.

Fossil Hunt

Bury several plastic dinosaurs in a large pan of cornmeal and place the
 pan on a table.  Let the children take turns going on a "fossil hunt."  Give
 the children spoons to use to dig in the cornmeal.  When the dinosaur
 "fossil" is discovered, ask the children to identify it by looking carefully
 at its characteristics.  This activity can also be done in a sandbox.