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MAKE-BELIEVE
DINOSAUR PICTURES
Give your children extra-large pieces of
paper. Invite them to use crayons, markers, and paints
to create giant pictures of make-believe dinosaurs. Ask
them to think about how their dinosaurs would be different
from known ones. Are they colored orange and purple? Do
they have curly tails? Are their ears long and floppy?
When the children have finished, give them tiny magazine
pictures of such items as trees, houses, and cars to glue
at the bottom of their pictures to make their dinos look
gigantic.
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MAKING
FOSSILS
Use a favorite recipe to make clay that will harden when
dry. Give your children balls of the clay to flatten into
rounds. Show them how to press small shells or leaves
into the clay to create clear impressions. Then have them
carefully remove the objects and allow the clay to air
dry. When the clay hardens, display their “fossils” on
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DINO MATCHING
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Set out several picture books about
dinosaurs for your children to look at. Using one
of the books, point to one of the dinosaur pictures.
Then ask the children to see if they can find pictures
of the same dinosaur in any of the other books.
Continue with pictures of different dinos.
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Add a set of plastic dinosaurs
to the dinosaur books you have set out. Can the
children match the plastic dinos to pictures in
the books?
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DINO
STORY
Place small plastic dinosaurs in a bag. Remove one of
the dinos and start a make-believe story in a way such
as this: “It was sunrise, time for T-Rex’s breakfast.
‘Grrrr, I’m hungry!’ he roared.” Then pass the bag of
dinosaurs around your group. As you do so, let each child
in turn take a dino from the bag and incorporate it into
the story you started. Continue until all the dinos have
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DINO HUNTS
Try one or more of these games with your group.
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Hide paper “dinosaur bones” around the room for your
children to find. |
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Place small toy dinosaurs in plastic eggs. Mark each
egg with a different sticker and attach a matching sticker
to each child’s hand. Hide the eggs and have the children
find the ones that are theirs by matching the stickers. |
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Draw a giant dinosaur on a piece of posterboard. Cut
out the shape and then cut it into pieces: legs, feet,
head, neck, torso, and tail. Invite the children to search
for the pieces and put them together to form a whole dino.
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DINOSAURS
ARE IN THEIR EGGS
Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Dinosaurs are in their eggs, (Curl up on floor in pretend
shells.)
In their eggs, in their eggs.
Dinosaurs are in their eggs,
Waiting to break out.
Dinosaurs are hatching now, (Break out of pretend shells.)
Hatching now, hatching now.
Dinosaurs are hatching now.
See them move about. (Crawl and hop around.)
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THE DINOSAURS ARE MARCHING ROUND
Tune: “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again”
The dinosaurs are marching round,
Hooray, hooray.
The dinosaurs are marching round
Today, today.
They clomp and clomp across the floor,
They open their mouths and give a loud roar,
Then they all go marching
Round and round once more.
Let the children act out the song as you sing.
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DINOSAUR SNACKS
- Cut dino shapes out of bread slices with cookie cutters
and spread on peanut butter or soft cream cheese. Let your
children decorate their shapes with raisins and dry cereal
pieces.
- Make blue or green finger gelatin. Use cookie cutters
to cut out dino shapes for snacking.
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