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ideaDinosaur Paper Plate Headdress You will need 5-6 paper plates per child. (may need more/less depending on child's height) Have children decorate their paper plates with crayons, paint, etc. Next fold all but one paper plate in half and tape or staple. Using the plate you did not fold, punch a hole on each side (this will be the top children will wear on their heads) Tie ribbon or yarn on each side (enough to tie together so their headdress will stay on) Next connect the folded plates together using hole punch & yarn or staple/tape. The rounded edges should all face the same direction. Once that's done connect the dino "spikes" to the unfolded plate.
ideaGive each child a dinosaur name. ie) Tomceratops, Jennyadon, Jimasaurus.
3-12-01Fill half of a plastic Easter egg with play-do, then stick a small toy dinosaur in it. Fill the other half of the egg with play-do and then stick them together. Your kids will love to dig through the play-do looking for the dinosaur!
7-18-00Make a paste of dry Ivory Snow detergent and water. Form it into an egg shape around a plastic dinosaur. When they're dry, send them home. The eggs will "hatch" during bath time.
6-11-00To really develop the idea of the meaning of extinct, we hang a sign up saying that cows have been placed on the endangered species list.. then several days later, another sign saying that cows have been declared extinct - what will you miss having?
6-6-00Create Dinosaur World -- Purchase two foam boards (used under siding) at your local home building center. These two boards were less than $3.00. They are about a 1/2 inch thick. Using a round or hexagon table. Join the two boards on the back side using duct tape. They will lay side by side on the table. Spray with adhesive and then start adding whatever you can think of to create your world. We took dirt out of the garden and sprinkled. We also took sand out of our sandbox. We gathered items on a walk around our building! We collected rocks, twigs from all types of plants (some with leaves and some without) and some bark chips from our playground. We made water from blue construction paper. It stuck to the adhesive very easily. We then created a mountain from brown play dough. We created a tar pit from glue and black paint and added chicken bones (clean). Finally we brought out the plastic dinosaurs and the language was flowing! Hope you have as much fun as we did!
5-31-00Rock Garden - Collect many different rocks (Thundereggs, pumice, agate, crystal, obsidian, river rock or slate). Place an inch and a half of water in the sensory tub. Place the rocks in the tub. Provide scrub brushes and dry towels. This is best done outdoors in the sun. The rocks quickly dry in the sun. My children love to see the colors come alive with the water. I use this with my dinosaur unit.
4-26-00I work for a drop in playground program in Edmonton, AB, CA and we make Dino snouts. It is a paper cup with a triangle cut out of the closed end of the cup with construction paper teeth glued on. The cups can be painted or covered with paper and a string can be attached so they can be worn. The kids love to do Dino parades with their snouts and noises of their dinosaur after.
2-23-00When we learned about dinosaurs we had a fun activity for the kids. Fill a water table and give the kids "islands" to float. We cut foam meat trays into different shapes for the islands. We then gave the kids plastic dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. They then had to place the dinosaurs on the islands until they sank the island. Our kids had so much fun with this they still ask us to play and we did that theme 2 months ago!
2-20-00I place a small plastic dino on an overhead projector, then I trace him on butcher paper taped to the wall. Afterwards, I have each student stand by him and write their name. Then we see how each measures up to the dino in size. Good for math, sizes, etc.
Date: 2-9-00We are studying dinosaurs this week. We filled our water table with shaving cream and buried our plastic dinosaurs in it. The kids are having a great time!
Date: 1-12-00Place aquarium gravel, several different sized rocks and some dinosaurs in a sensory table. Add additional items such as plastic trees, blue paper for water, etc. Date: 1-11-00Dinosaur theme: when we study that unit we take earth and put into the water table, then we have the children fill the table with our dino toys. We also have plastic trees and we construct a dino Habitat. They children have fun with this and at the same time learn about Pre-historic life. We also read about Dinosaurs and play our dinosaur tape while the children are at the Sensory table. Date: 1-2-99fill the touch table with cornmeal or very fine sand. take a floor puzzle of a dinosaur and hide the pieces in the table let each child go on a "dig" for a "fossil" of the dinosaur. they then can work together to piece the dino back together. as you do this you can explain that this is what scientist have to do when they find bones to figure out which dinosaur fossils they have found and to get an Date: 1-2-99 of what the dinosaur looked like. 7-22-98 Name: Michele E-Mail: Mshlnmars@aol.com For our dinosaur unit I purchased an adorable stuffed T-Rex. I took him home, and paper-machied him into an egg. I took him to school and told the children that I had found a real dinosaur egg. We watched and studied the egg for two days, then one day ti started to move ( a trick played by the teacher :-) We all sat on the floor and watched him hatch. The children were instantly in love with him and named him Chomper. He has since become our class mascot. On weekends the children take turns taking him home. We even have a journal to record Chompers adventures. The children look forward of what chomper did over the weekend. Everyone loves Chomper, he even visits other rooms. 4-27-98 Name: Shelley E-Mail: swk65@aol.com A favorite book my preschoolers loved: "Mom, Can I Have a Stegosaurus, Please?"We read this book sometimes 2 or 3 times a day! Other Books we enjoyed:"The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone""Dinosaurs" A Pop-Up Book Published by Grandreams USA (This was a favorite!!) 4-24-98 Name: jen E-Mail: RK1JR2@aol.com Dinofour books are great!!!!!!!!! The author is Metzger. Look them up! 3-11-98 newberry@freeway.net (linda) I wanted to submit a couple of books about dinosaurs that my preschoolers really enjoy: A step into reading book: Dinosaur Babies by Lucille Recht Penner The Day Of The Dinosaur by Jan and Stan Berenstain Dinosaur Days Joyce Milton 2-28-98 Name: Rhonda E-Mail: thanasi@xnet.com. Stegosaurus Hats: You will need 4 paper plates per students, a stapler, yarn or string and bingo dotters. Fold 3 of the 4 plates in half and staple. These will be the plates of the stegosaurus. String the yarn through the last plate make a hat which will tie under the chin. Staple the 3 folded plates together (vertically), one on top of the other. Attach the line of stegosaurus "plates" to the top hat plate. Decorate with bingo dotters or anything colorful. The children look so cute leaving school with these on!! 2-23-98 Name: Erin E-Mail: emtmcasey@aol.com Great Dinosaur book- Dinosaur ROAR by paul & Henrietta Strickland. great book of opposites. Very realistic pictures and is a great read aloud and act out book. 2-23-98 Name: Staci E-Mail: sbridges1@capecod.net Stegosaurus hats-children cut along lines of paper (fold an 11x14 piece of paper and draw on one side spikes. We attached these cut outs to a headband. They can decorate with corn flakes for bumpy skin etc. We talked about what a paleontologist was and let the children search the sand table with paint brushes and tools to search for bones(we cut out bone shapes from plastic/Styrofoam plates) I also cut out a silver circle from shiny paper and attached it to a construction hat to resemble a light on a miners/paleontologist hat We also put some plastic bags in the table also as they placed the bones they collected in them just like a paleontologist would do-they loved this After they collected the "bones" they could take them to the table where they could then attached them together with brass fasteners like a paleontologist would. These came out so cute. I put out a variety of cereals for the children to use to decorate dinosaurs with to create the bumpy, rough effect Read Dinosaur Roar. Measure how large the biggest dino is and then have the children line up/lay down to see how many kids it takes-the kids are amazed. We read Whatever Happened To The Dinosaurs and then have the kids tell us what they think happened. They draw a picture of what they think and then we put it together in a class book Using hard boiled eggs have the children roll them gently on the table to create a crumbly cracked egg. Put these into a small bowl with Kool-Aid packet and 3 cups of cold water and-cover with plastic wrap and leave it in frig for one to two days-when they peel them the eggs look like dinosaur eggs all colored and tie-dye like they're cool! Using the bone cut out you made from Styrofoam plates glue these to a large piece of heavy paper or tape onto the table. Use these for fossil rubbings. Rub a crayon-side ways along a piece of paper placed over the top of the "fossil" We gave the children small chocolate chip cookies and toothpicks and had them try to pick out the chips with the toothpicks very gently, just like a paleontologist would when digging for bones. It was so funny and the kids were so careful. They get to eat everything when they are done. Dino sock puppet-Attach an egg carton to a sock puppet along the arm to make the spikes and use two other bumps for the eyes-attach with tape or string. 2-23-98 Name: CASi E-Mail: KC028@aol.com In our pre-K and Kindergarten classes, I have to admit that we all love our dinosaur days and we introduce the concept of fossils into the classroom. First we collect a variety of bones saved from meals in all households. I boil and clean the bones, and then they are laid out to dry (while the kids try to guess where they had come from. Then we cook up a batch of plain white playdough, let it cool and knead it smooth. The children then take a bone, place it inside of a lump of playdough, make sure the bone is completely covered by the dough, and put it on a cookie sheet. We then slowly bake the dough (it can be air dried, but it takes forever!) until it's "rock" hard. The children then use a variety of instruments (experimenting along the way) to try to break the rock, use big bristle brushes to remove the dust, and slowly but surely, expose the bone and see it's imprint in the playdough. It's a great adventure for them to play paleon-tologist and to try to guess which bone they're uncovering as they go along. 2-23-98 Name: Tammy E-Mail: lg55130@navix.net I make black (dark grey) playdough and add small plastic dinos. We build volcanoes, tar pits, and bury the dinos to make "fossils". The kids love to imprint the sides of the dinos in the playdough for fossil prints. 2-23-98 Name: Carol (Australia) E-Mail: apple@wantree.com.au After reading Dazzle the Dinosaur - provide a lifesized cardboard shape of Dazzle (stegasaurus) complete with rib cage etc. Have children stuff this with newspaper, gluing on where necessary until filled out to appropriate size. Then cover with newspaper sheets for skin. We painted this and then the children carried it out to the sandpit, where they put it paint side down to give it a textured feel. The plates on his back were covered with glitter, but you could use holographic contact. Children took great pleasure in measuring themselves against Dazzle - and appreciated the size of dinosaurs. 2-17-98 Name: teri E-Mail: prektchr1@aol.com We use a K.W.L. chart to start our unit of dinosaurs. we put up a big piece of chart paper and write the letters KWL. K=what the child knows about dinosaurs (we write all those down). The W=what the children want to learn about dinosaurs. this helps us with our planning and L=what they learned about dinosaurs. This is a good learning tool. It shows them what they learned and what they didn't know about dinosaurs. Very good tool to use for any unit. 2-12-98 Name: Nancy E-Mail: photobug@ginetworks.com Use an plastic baby bathtub filled with clean aquarium gravel or filler appropriate for your age group, add small plastic or rubber dinosaurs for a dinosaur environmnet. The entire tub can be set inside the sensory table. Add other props per student's interest. 2-12-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol.com I get different types of bones from the butcher shop. I boil and bake to kill the germs. We use the bones in our bone band. We play them to music and also make up our own rhythm patterns. The children really enjoy this. We wear our dinosaur hats when doing this activity.
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