Dinosaurs Books:
*Make new name tags that read: Joey-o-saurus, or Sarah-o-don....just for fun.
*Put out scraps of color paper and glue and dinosaur shaped pasta and have the children make a dinosaur scene or collage.
*have a large selection of plastic dinosaurs in a pile. Have the children work out a way to put these dinosaurs into groups. for example: all the long tails or all the ones with spikes...etc. They can come up with great ideas. I love doing this with them. We always group then regroup....and try again...
*if your students are ready for some letter stuff...look at the dinosaur's names....talk about the letters...what are the beginning letters? what letters are in all the words?
*sing: Colorful Dinosaurs (Tune: One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians) {Have felt dinosaurs of the various colors to put on flannel board as you sing.}
*we did a plaster cast of some dinosaur mold that I found at a hobby store...and kids painted them
*we put rice in a huge vat..and buried bones...and plastic eggs that i filled with small dinosaurs....
*get one of those plastic models that you put together..and show it in skelton form
*find some shells......rocks with fossils...etc and talk about what they are...
*Theres a cute poem: "PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS (pak-i-sef-a-lo-saw-rus)" by Richard Armour and another "The steam shovel" by Rowena Bennett. They both appear in Sing A Song of Popcorn,1988 ; Scholastic Inc. *I know I can probably find more when I have a chance to look, but I get Dinosaur shaped Chicken nuggets from a food wholesaler that some of the providers order from! They are really good chicken(tyson) and the kids think they are great too!
*we took mural paper and cut it into two dino shapes big enough to cover a large table. The first day I left out dino shaped sponges; for the other dino I left out collage materials. Small dinosaurs on 8x11" paper were marble painted on a third day and when dried, mounted on colored construction paper egg shapes. Mounted on a wall; the eggs followed the "parent dinos" walking along. The next day we painted huge leaf shapes and the children painted gold metallic on three or four paper towel rollers. Mounted together on the wall, these made the dinosaur's three-dimensional dinosaur food.
*Cute book: "If the Dinosaurs Came Back" by: Bernard Most
*Game: Dinosaur Bone Hunt
Cut out several kinds of "dinosaur bones" from cardboard. Hide bones
inside
or outside. Tell kids they are going to pretend to be "paleontologists",
the
scientists who study dinosuars. Paleontologists find bones from dinosaurs
in
the ground, and these bones are the things that have taught us about
dinosaurs. Have the kids hunt to find the bones.
*Show kids pictures of different dinosaurs and their skeletons. Some older kids can make dinosaurs out of clay. Tell kids the names of the dinosaurs too, having them repeat the name (pretty funny the way they come out, actually!)
*You could use brown paper bags and make mountains. Just dampen the bags with water,(very little) then crumble or squeese and form mountains. Then let the kids put some paint on them. Use another for the land and then make some trees to glue on the land. Put the dinos on there and bravo a dino community. You could make a volcano also with the brown bags and paint. Put it all in a cut off cardboard box for a foundation. Or use shoe boxes and make individual small communities for each child.
*There are lots of snacks that are in dino shapes cookies, jelly candy, animal cookies, ect. Or bake your own with dino cutouts.
* Knowledge Adventure, Inc. (Keyword to:
*Dinosaur stew... like stone soup. Use a calf femer as the bone and stir
the
pot with it.
*Be palientologists: Bury another femer and help them "find" it.
*Match skeletons to the pictures of dinosaurs.
*How many dinosaurs will hatch. Using plastic easter eggs, put small dino
figures or construction paper cutouts. Use it as an adding game, a number
recognition, or a sorting activity.
*Tape actual-sized footprints on the ground using butcher paper. Have
children compare the size of their feet or the size of their favorite
animal.
*Sort animals by herbivours or carnivours. Great opportunity to learn
some
fun words.
*Cut out felt dino shapes... have them match the babies to the parents.
*If anyone has the David Jack video he has a song called dinoasaur dip.
its
great fun and the kids love it. it's kind of a rock and roll beat with
the
repitition of Dip, dip, dip, dip-de-dip-de dip doing the dinosaur dip.
*Our speech dept., bought some wonderful plastic dinos. they are about 18
to
24 " tall and have realistic features. we also bought a bag of the small
plastic dino and put them in our sensory table. we group them by color and
type of dino. since "Land Before Time video, most kids have the names
down...
long neck, sharp tooth, sara and if forget the others but its a great
association of them to make. they also enjoy aa giant floor puzzle.
*Dino Soap Box Derby
this is an activity to give the kid's dinosaurs "wheels" ...will also work
for other "stuffys, barbie dolls etc!!
*We also do the volcano experiment but take it one step further. After we
do
a large demonstratation, I tell them it's their turn to be scientists. We
talk about how important scientists are and how they do experiments. Then
we
bring out the equipment. I have a tray with pipetts, popsicles sticks,
little
cups(we use medicine cups from the hospital), a tub of water,and the most
important ingrediants baking soda and vinegar. I show them how to put
baking
soda in the cup using a stick, use the pipette to get vinegar and presto,
a
mini volcano. Next we talk about how the scientist always cleans his
things
for the next scientist by rinsing out his cup in the tub of water. All of
this plus extras go into the water table for the kids to experiment on
their
own. They love it. Some children will spend all free play there. We also
do
this with color mixing, and what dissolves.
*Stuffed Dinosaurs:
For each child cut two dinosaur shapes out of brown paper bags or brown
butcher paper. Have the children hold their shapes together while you
staple
together around three sides. Then let them crumple small pieces of
newspaper
and stuff them into their dinosaur shapes. When the shapes are full,
staple
the remaining sides closed. Let the children decorate their stuffed
dinosaurs
with paint. When the dinosaurs shapes are dry, attach loops of yarn to
them
and hang around the room.
Variation: Punch holes around the edges of the pairs of dinosaurs and let
the children lace together with yarn.
*Dinosaur Fact Book:
Have the children take turns dictating a favorite dinosaur fact to you.
Write each child's fact on a separate sheet of paper and let him or her
illustrate the fact with crayons, markers or dinosaur stickers/stamps.
Staple
the pages together to make a Dinosaur Fact Book.
*Tyrannosaurus Toss:
Draw a picture of a large Tyrannosaurus head on a piece of sturdy
cardboard.
Use a sharp knife to cut the dinosaur's mouth including lots of teeth.
Then
prop the cardboard Tyrannosaurus head against a chair or secure it with
tape
across a doorway. Give the children bean bags and let them take turns
"feeding the dinosaur" by tossing the bean bags into its mouth.
*Prehistoric Parade:
Play different types of instrumental music. Have the children move around
the room, pretending to be the dinosaurs that the music reminds them of.
For
example, a march might remind them of Tyrannosauruses; light airy music,
Pteranondons; slow music, Apatosauruses, munching on plants in the swamp.
When you stop the music, encourage the children to tell you which dinosaurs
they were.
*Tyrannosaurus Rex:
*A suggestion for a Dinosaur lunch is:
*Using clay make a Dinosaur
*color Dinosaur pictures and trees, cut them out and make a 3 D scene in
a
shoe box
*decorate dino eggs. Look in a book at what the eggs look like (color,
spots) and decorate the eggs like you do at Easter to look like the ones
in
the book
*let kids cut out lots of feet (in the shape of dino feet) and set them
on
the floor all through your house and go on a dino hunt. Leaving clues to
find the Dinosaur where the trail ends. (we used a stuffed Dinosaur at the
end of the trail).
*DINO HAT
Duplicate a dinosaur pattern on construction paper for each child. Have
the
children decorate their dinosaur. Glue the dinosaur to a sentence strip
shaped paper, staple ends of strip together to fit around the head. Have a
dinosaur parade with children wearing their dino hats.
*Dinosaur Shadow Box: Shoe box,crayons, grass (real or fake), toy
dinosaurs or playdough dinosaurs that children make and rocks
*Draw moutains or marsh on inside bottom of shoe box...turn box onn side
and fill shadow box floor with grass, rocks and dinosaurs
*Outdoor play:
Dinosaur is Sleeping
One child is Dinosaur who pretends to be asleep while everyone else
hides. The everyone yells "Wake up, dinosaur." Dinosaur wakes up and
tries to find everyone. Let Children take turns being dinosaur.
*Storytime:
Let children take turns making up stories using their shadow boxes.
*Music:
Dinosaurs (tune of "Row Your Boat")
*Learning Time
Make statements to which children answer yes or no. Use such statements
about dinosaurs as:
*Dinosaur folder
*Volcano
*Clean Mud
*Dino Felt Boards
*We also set out:
*CASSETTES
*How about making up a story about your "classroom dinosaur". Have the
children work together to come up with a name and story for the dino.
*Drama: Use paper plates to make a stegosaurus costume Use plates/cups
to make a stegosaurus mask
*Art: Stand Up Stegosaurus w/paper plates, paper tubes and paper Make
dinosaur crowns (can add stickers for each dino studied)
*Games: Tyrannosaurus Rex Tag Build a Dinosaur Use Hula Hoops to define
the
water and let children act out the various plant-eating dinosaurs. Call out
"T. Rex" they scramble to their safe zones inside the hoops.
*Science: Volcanic Eruption Dinosaur Soap Eggs (with small toy dino
inside) Serve Broccoli ("trees") and Lettuce ("leaves") for snack
*Math: Make various large cutouts of dinosaurs. Cut several shapes
(circles, squares, triangles, etc. -- or draw irregular "bone" shapes)
out of tagboard. Use the shapes to draw outlines on each dinosaur -- maybe
three or four per dinosaur. Laminate all. Bury the bones or shapes in the
sensory table and have children "dig for bones" and match them to the
dinosaurs. Photocopy a dinosaur on one side of a paper and its skeleton
on the backside, lining up the pictures. Children paint dino, glue to
small white paper bag. Shining a flashlight up inside will show the
skeleton!
Hide dog bones in sensory table Make plaster of paris fossil molds.
Hold a scavenger hunt. Draw simple pictures of various areas in the
classroom and number from 1-?? Hide the sheets in the classroom
(giving the first card to the children) so that when the children look
at each card, it leads them to the next card. Have something special
hiding (maybe a dinosaur book for story time??) at the last location.
Songs: Brontosaurus is my name My footsteps sound like thunder.
although I'm large, I'm gentle too. And seldom leave the water.
The Triceratops lived long ago in prehistoric time. We know that it was
living here by fossils that we find. On its head it had two horns and one
was on its snout. To keep it safe, no doubt.
(Tune: Where oh where did my little dog go) Oh, where, oh where did
the dinosaurs go? Oh, where, oh where can they be? They were much too
big to just disappear. It sure is puzzling to me!
*Put paper sacks on feet for dino feet and dance around to dino music
wee
sing has a good one) i got this idea from a terrific penpal
*Make Dino bones
Combine P.B. and milk add honey mix well divide into equal portions after
shaping them into bones sprinkle with crackers
*measured out the length of a apatosaurus with yarn 70 feet
*collage a cardboard cut out of different dinos
* My favorite dino idea is the stegasourus hat. Trace 2 Steg shapes and
have
the kids cut them out. Then they use all the scrap construction paper
from
other projects to make the spikes and bigo boppers or markers to color the
steggie. We fit it on their heads then and they are a Dino.
We also played a Mommy/Daddy Dinosaur and Baby game. Again, like
"Doggie, Doggie" except we used model dinosaurs, the children were
either Mommy or Daddy Dino.
We also watched Curious George and the Dinosaur and the children also
like the Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone. It helps the
children realize that the only place we can see dinosaurs is a museum,
as opposed to tv suggesting otherwise.
*DINOSAUR HUNT
Note: For anyone who hasn't done this before (and it's similar to Going
on a Bear Hunt) this is a chant. You should say the line first and do
the action and then the children will repeat it back to you.Each line
has an action. On the obvious ones, I just left it out because it is so
much typing!
*Dinosaur mountains.
Mix together 5 parts sand, 2 parts plaster of paris, and 2 parts water.
You
may need to add a little more water to make it about the consistancy of
pancake batter. Pour it into paper cups. Push into each cup a small
plastic
dinosaur. When it is hard tear off the paper cup and give the children
craft
sticks to scrape off the "stone" to find what's inside ( it's really soft
and
easy). I crumpled up the paper cup before adding the mountain mixture.
Then
after I took off the paper I rounded off some of the sharp edges and
created a
few new dips in the flat top. It looked a lot more like a stone that way.
*Dinosaur Delight
*Dinosaur Fossils
I save all my old playdough and use it to make fossils. I divide it into
small balls and the children roll it flat either on a small paper plate or
yogurt lid. Then they press small plastic dinosaurs into it. I usually
let
them harden for a couple of days before I send them home.
*Dino shadow matching
(folder game-match the dino picture to a black silhouette)
* dino sewing cards
*Dinosaurs
to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
*I found a great book at the library called Monster Soup (sorry I can't
find
the auther's name) and in it are two great poems relating to dinos. The
kids
have memorized both because the rhythm of the words roll off of their
tongues
and are such fun to say.
*Allosaurus (Tune: "Alouette")
*Ten Big Dinosaurs
*Five Enormous Dinosaurs
BABY DINOSAUR
Dinosaur Count
Category: Animals: Dinosaurs
Category: Animals: Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Days
Tell your children that you are going to be talking and learning about
dinosaurs. Ask them what they know about dinosaurs and make a list on a
large
sheet of paper. Do the same on the last day, you will be surprised at how
much
they have learned. Have the children draw a dinosaur, keep them and do the
same on the last day of the unit. See how much their drawings have changed.
Listen to 'Let's Sing About Dinosaurs' Wee Sing Dinosaur Tape. Read a
story!
Take the children outside and have them run like dinosaurs.
Required:
Start with a small box and punch four small holes on the sides, about 1/2"
from the bottom at each corner. Then take the four plastic yogurt tops and
puch a small hle in the center of each (you need to do the hole punching).
Affix each yogurt top to the box with a brad and you instantly have four
wheels (cover the sharp ends of the brad with tape for saftey). Attach a
string and handle, if you like. The rest is artwork. The child can decide
if
they want their dinosaur to ride in a chool bus, racing car, or pickup
truck.
When it's finished, let the dino take it out for a spin!!
Sung to: Mary had a Little Lamb:
Dinosaurs walked on this Earth,
On this Earth, on this Earth.
Dinosaurs walked on this Earth,
A loong, long time ago.Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king,
Was the king, was the king.
Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king,
A long, long time ago.Tyrannosaurus (child's name) was the king,
Was the king, was the king.
Tyrannosaurus (child's name) was the king,
A long, long time ago.
Craft ideas:
Dinosaurs, dinosaurs
Eating fruits and weeds
Take a bite and chew it well
And then spit out the seeds.
Children glued cut outs of dinosaurs (from construction paper) on to a
file folder. The children also drew whatever they wanted on the folder.
Matching cut-out of what they glued were given to them so that they
could do a matching activity with these folders.
Take an empty glass spice jar. Use playdough to surround the jar into a
mountain looking structure. Put a drop of food coloring we used green
into the spice jar about a tablespoon of baking soda and add vinegar to
it to make an erupting volcano.
Put two rolls of toilet paper into a container that has a lid. Add
water. Let the rolls of toilet paper soak over night. Take 2 Ivory
soap bars and using a grater shave the bars of soap into the container.
Let the kids have fun it feels pretty neat make sure the little ones
don't try to eat it though it taste awful.
Cut cardboard into square or rectangle shapes (a good size is about 10
inches by 15 inches) Either glue or tape felt to the board for a
background give the kids scraps of felt. They can cut out the scraps to
make clouds, mountains, grass, etc. Glue these shapes onto the felt on
board. We used an Ellison cut-out thingy to cut-out shapes of dinosaurs
on felt and the kids had fun with the shapes on their boards.
*PICTURE BOOKS
*EASY READERS
NONFICTION
*CD'S
*VIDEOS
"DINOSAUR, DINOSAUR, LOOK AND SEE
YOUR BABY IS GONE! WHERE CAN IT BE?"
Going on a dinosaur hunt. (slap thighs)
And I'm not afraid. (point to self)
There's a tall mountain. (look with hand over eyes)
Can't go under it. (move hand down)
Can't go around it. (move hand around)
Guess I'll go over it. (reach hands as if climbing)
There's a river. (hands over eyes. NOTE: REPEAT ABOVE ACTIONS AS
APPROPRIATE FOR THE REST OF THE CHANT)
Can't go over it.
Can't go under it
Guess I'll swim across it. (move arms as if swimming)
There's some tall grass.
Can't go over it
Can't go around it
Guess I'll go through it (slap hands up and down in front)
There's a cave!
Can't go over it.
Can't go under it.
Guess I'll go in it.
It's dark and spooky in here (shake)
It's cold in here! (wrap arms around self and shiver)
I feel some scales (prentend to rub something)
I feel some big teeth! (pretend to touch something)
OHH! It's a Dinosaur! (screan)
Run out of the cave (slap thighs)
Go through the grass
Swim across the river
Climb the mountain
Run home (slap thighs)
Open the door
Jump into bed (cover head with arms as if hiding under a blanket)
I went on a dinosaur hunt
And I wasn't afraid!
Mix cocoa & milk. Add sugar and butter. Boil about 3 min. Add peanut
butter
and oatmeal and stir until melted. Remove from heat and stir until mixture
begins to thicken, Drop by tabelspoonsful onto waxed paper cool,eat and
enjoy.....
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Dinosaurs are monsters of the past. The word dinosaur means 'terrible
lizard'.
There were many
types of dinosaurs, below are some of the most recognizable.
Triceratops (TRI SER A TOPS)
Triceratops looked sort of like a tank. It had a big body and a giant head.
On
it's head were two
long horns. Its nose looked like a parrots beak. On the nose was a short
horn.
Triceratops had a
strong ruffle around its neck. Only one dinosaur could beat a triceratops
in a
fight. That dinosaur
was Tyrannosaurus rex.
Pterodactyl - It had very large wings that helped it fly throught the air.
It
swooped down out of
the sky like a kite diving to the ground.
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