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9-13-00Make edible play dough (using peanut butter, powdered milk and honey). Have children shape the play dough into egg shapes. Give each child a small paper bowl and a handful of chow mien noodles. The chow mien noodles form the nest. The "eggs" are placed in the nest and then add dinosaur shaped gummies to represent dinosaur babies that have already hatched. The students will love this cooking project and they can eat it for snack when they're done!
7-15-00When talking about dinosaurs hide plastic Easter eggs on the playground and have a dinosaur egg hunt. The class is sure to love it.
2-23-00Dino-Dash One of the children is the T-rex, and the others are all plant-eaters. Make a square area with cones, big enough so the children can run around without bumping into each other. The T-rex needs to tag the plant-eaters. When he tags them, they fall to the ground, and stay there. When the T-rex has tagged all of the plant-eaters, the last person to be tagged is the T-rex. Children love this game! You need to make sure they just tap each other. Sometimes they get carried away. Good for outdoors!
2-17-00I pre-traced dinosaur shapes on a color of paper that the student chose. They then added stripes, circles, triangles, etc... or some colored the feet, spikes, etc... We then wrote a story for each My dinosaur is (what color) and it has 1 triangle, 2 purple squares, 10 stripes, etc.... They loved the idea that they wrote a story and counted the shapes.
Date: 1-31-00When studying Dinosaurs, I make several different large dinosaurs. I punch a hole in the top and thread yarn through to make a necklace. During circle time, I will choose a child to be a dinosaur. I hang the necklace on the child's back so that they cannot see what they are wearing. One at a time, the rest of the children provide clues about the dinosaur. The child wearing the necklace has to guess who they are according to the clues. This works great for building questioning skills, and helps the children to master concepts about the dinosaurs. This activity works well with any Unit you are teaching.
Date: 1-19-00Play duck duck goose, only change it to Triceratops, triceratops, BRONTOSAURUS!! The brontosaurus gets up and runs around the circle. The kids love this game, and it is great for their gross motor!! 1-3-00Don't Fall into the Swamp! Will need to regular size jump ropes. set the two jump ropes parallel to each other (representing a swamp) The children jump across them trying not to jump in the swamp. Move jump ropes farther apart after each attempt. Date: 12-30-99Dino Bone Search. Have the children paint dog bones (The Lg. Dog Biscuits) white. When they dry, put each child's name on a bone w/ permanent marker. Hide them throughout the class room and ask each child to sit in circle once they have found a bone. Now, they need to look at the name on the bone and give it to that friend. This would be for 4-5 year old children. Date: 12-20-99Dino Dino Who Has Your Bone. This game is played with one player closing his eyes. One of the other players hide the dino bone. When ready, all players sing, "dino dino who has your bone, somebody stole it from your home.....guess who." A dog's chew toy bone makes a good dino bone. ideaFor our dinosaur unit, I turned our sensory table into a place to hunt for dinosaur bones. I filled the table with white beans, and then took 2 or 3 of our dinosaur puzzles and hid them in the table. The kids had a blast looking or "hunting" for the dinosaurs! Date: 10-31-99Date: 12-6-98You can select a student to pretend to be a different type of dinosaur,while the student is modeling his/her dinosaur have the other students guess what that person might be. Also, you can change the concept by changing up various time periods. The children will enjoy it!!!!! 3-8-98 Name: Staci E-Mail: sbridges1@capecod.net Mark off a ten foot circle on the rug/floor with masking tape. Do not tell the children what it is for. Hide 6 inch dinosaur teeth around the room before they get there. During group time I tell the children to be dinosaur detectives and go searching for these white pieces of paper and bring them back to group. As they bring them back I tape them along the tape. We then try to figure out what it is. It is the jaw of a T-Rex, it can open to 10 feet wide. We figure out how many kids fit inside, what else is big enough to fit inside?? 2-23-98 Name: Michelle E-Mail: buttonml@aol.com Tarpit Tag is played just like TV Tag. When a child is tagged, he must call out the name of a dinosaur or go to the tarpit! The kids love it! 2-12-98 Name: Cathy E-Mail: CL9177 Dinosaur Dig Hide mini-dinos all over the "sand area" and have the children do a dig for bones or fossils. 2-9-98 Name: Marlene E-Mail: mapiggy@aol.com Tie large paper grocery sacks on the childrens feet. The sacks will be their dinosaur feet. Let them stomp around to music. Wee-Sing has a great dinosaur music tape. 2-9-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol.com Make dino footprints and put in a circle on the rug. I use double sided sticky tape so the footprints stay in one place. The children then go around the circle stepping on the footprints. When the music stops the one not on the dino footprint is out. (They get to operate the tape player until the next person is out. No one feels left out this way.) The children always love this game. Have fun!!!!!!!! 2-8-98 Name: Robin E-Mail: jpmooar@fidnet.com After talking about Dinosaurs and reading a story, you could use a real bone or one you made and hide it in the sandbox and have the children find it. The one that finds it gets to hide it the next time. Editors Note: Make sure that you boil the bones in bleach water and let them dry before letting the children handle them. This kills all the germs that are on the bones. Also, make sure you do not use any sharp bones.
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