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ideaBe a Paleontologist - excavate a chocolate cookie with paintbrushes and toothpicks.
ideaThe staff at the center sponge painted a watermelon and we hid it outside and took the children for a dinosaur egg hunt. (you could also use several small melons). When the children found the egg, we touched it, shook it, listened to it and waited to see if it would hatch. At the end of the day, we reminded the children to check the egg in the morning. Before the first child arrived, a staff cut the melon enough in the middle that it could pull apart easily later. At circle time, we opened up the egg and surprised the children with watermelon for snack!
2-5-01Make a dino nest by melting butterscotch, Peanut Butter, or Choc. chips and chow-mein noodles. Drop in muffin tins or just shape on wax paper. Make Peanut Butter Playdough by mixing equal amounts of Peanut Butter and Nonfat dry Milk and a little honey (about 2 TBS for 1 cup of each of other 2 ingredients) and shape into eggs. Yum!
1-13-01Dinosaur Egg Hunt Large watermelon Brown/Green Tempra paint mixed thick. Paint, allow to dry, and then hide the egg on the playground. Let children search for the egg. Teacher washes off the watermelon. Since the paint is Tempra it will wash right off and the children are able to eat the watermelon once the paint is completely removed and the neat thing is yo can say it was a watermelon instead of a dinosaur egg because dinosaurs are extinct. Kids love the anticipation of the hunt, searching for the egg, getting surprised that it is a watermelon, and getting to eat their egg.
11-7-00This is a unique dinosaur snack. Put coconut you have colored green in the bottom of a cupcake holder. Place a powder sugar donut hole on top. Stick a gummy dinosaur coming out of the donut hole and you have a dinosaur nest.
7-15-00T-Rex Teeth: Cut bananas in half, spread with melted butterscotch chips, dip in graham crackers...presto! (I let my older children do the spreading and dipping, and my younger children rolled the rolling pin to smash the graham crackers.)
7-14-00For our older children, I decided to become explores for the day. This project helped with our children's abilities to count, and exercised their patience levels!! I baked brownies at home with pieces of walnuts in them. When I took them in the next day, we talked about what archeologists do, and read a story about dinosaurs. I presented each child with a brownie, and a spoon with strict instructions NOT to eat the brownies!! I the told them that we were going to look for dinosaur bones...and the children used their spoons as shovels, and set aside all the bones ( nuts) in a pile!!! Together we counted the bones and the child(ren) with the most bones was given a special dinosaur prize!!! Then, they got to eat the "dirt and bones" from our project!!! They loved this!!!
7-10-00"Dino eggs"
5-18-00DINO PIZZAS Use any homemade pizza dough or refrigerated. Use cardboard to cut out a dino shape. Roll out dough, lay stencil onto the dough and using a butter knife cut around your stencil. Then place each dough dino onto a cookie sheet, add sauce, toppings, and an eye. Enjoy!
2-17-00Dinosaur Eggs We like to make dinosaurs eggs using Jell-O. We us the Jell-O egg mold and put a gummy dinosaur inside then fill with our color choice of Jell-O, let set then enjoy! The children are excited to see the dino inside the egg. You can also prepare a nest for your egg. Date: 1-19-00Read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" by Aliki. After reading the book, give each student a chocolate chip cookie, toothpicks, and a magnifying glass. Have the students pretend to be paleontologists looking for "bones"(chips) remind how careful they must be. When it is all over they can eat their findings!!! Date 12-29-99Stegosaurus Salad Mix together twigs: 5-7 stick pretzels leaves: 3-5 lettuce leaves grass: handful of sprouts hot lava: spoonful of dressing. Eat and keep an eye out for Tyrannosaurs Rex. Date: 5-25-99Stegasaurus Sandwiches Make triangular shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Add triangular tortilla chips for his spikes. A half a banana cut lengthwise for the neck and raisins for eyes. Date: 4-18-99Hey, Quaker now makes instant oatmeal with "Dinosaur Eggs" in it. When you add the hot water the "eggs" melt and reveal tiny little dinosaurs! The kids LOVE it! 11-21-98 Name: Julie Mix instant chocolate pudding with white chocolate chips and place in a clear plastic cup. Top off with crushed cookie crumbs. Have the children pretend they are going on a dinosaur dirt dig and finding dinosaur bones (the white chocolate chips). Their spoons are their shovels. 5-18-98 Name: Angie E-Mail: angie1@camelot.bradley.edu For a VERY easy dinosaur snack idea, try finding the Dinosaur Fruit Snack packs. My kiddos love looking at the different kinds of dinos in their packages and there is virtually no mess for those really busy days! 2-28-98 Name: Rhonda E-Mail: thanasi@xnet.com. Dinosaur Nests are great! You will need (food)chow mein noodles, chocolate chips and jelly beans and (cooking supplies) a microwave or electric frying pan, spoons, and paper plates. To make: Melt the chocolate chips in the frying pan or microwave. Place a handful of chow mein noodles onto a paper plate or waxed paper labeled with the student's name. Pour spoonfuls of chocolate onto the noodles until they are covered. Place jelly bean "eggs" into the nest. Allow it to cool so the chocolate will harden again and ENJOY! 2-23-98 Name: Joan E-Mail: Jdk719@aol.com Dinosaur Chow: Mix 1/4 cup dirt (cocoa), 1/2 cup swamp water (milk w/ green food coloring), 2 cups crushed bones (sugar), 1/2 cup fat (butter),...boil about 3 minutes...add 2 cups dead grass (uncooked oatmeal) and 1/2 cup squashed bugs (peanutbutter) stir till melted. Remove from heat and stir until it starts to thicken. Drop by tablespoons onto waxed paper, cool, eat and enjoy. 2-23-98 Name: Lynne E-Mail: Mrslynne@aol.com Very easy dinosaur snack, I make purple and green jello jiggler recipie, and cut them out with dinosaur cookie cutters! 2-17-98 Name: teri E-Mail: Prektchr1@aol.com Dino Eggs You need enough hard boiled eggs for everyone in your class. Have children bang hard boiled eggs on table making cracks in them. Put in a cup of water and choice of food coloring. Let sit for the day. For snack open up the egg shell and you can see neat designs from the cracks and food coloring. It is safe to eat. 2-13-98 Name: Sally E-Mail: Spinny002@aol.com Give each child a small paper cup with green frosting and a popsicle stick. Purchase the Graham Crackers that come in the large dinosaur shapes and let them frost them. They can sprinkle dinosaur candy sprinkles over the tops. This is easy cleanup as the materials used are disposable and the children will gobble up the dinos. 2-10-98 Name: Heidi E-Mail: ilovdoll@gte.net We do our Dinosaur unit in the summer. I get a watermelon and spraypaint it white so it looks like a giant egg. I put it out in our backyard then build up the suspense that I thought I had seen some big white thing out back maybe it is some sort of egg. The kids try to guess what might be inside. Then we cut it open and take a look. Editors note: This is a great idea!!! However, since paint is involved, please do not let the children eat the watermellon. Name: Marlene E-Mail: mapiggy@aol.com *Make Dino bones 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup dry milk 2 tbs honey graham crackers crushed Combine P.B. and milk add honey mix well divide into equal portions after shaping them into bones sprinkle with crackers. 2-10-98 Name: Marlene E-Mail: mapiggy@aol.com *Edible volcano!! Buy a box of ice cream cones and have each child bite off the tip. Let the children drizzle squeeze frosting in red, orange, and yellow for "lava" coming down the sides. Set the volcano in chocolate pudding (for the land) and add gummy dinosaurs around the base. (We talk about volcanoes as being one possibility of extinction for the dinosaurs). 2-9-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol.com I make lime flavored jello with gummi dinos in it.. I have also make the jello eggs and put gummi dinos in the middle of them. The kids love both. 2-8-98 Name: Lynne E-Mail: Mrslynne@aol.com Very easy dinosaur snack, I make purple and green jello jiggler recipie, and cut them out with dinosaur cookie cutters!
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