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.