Dd Dinosaurs
Letter: Dd
Number:4
Shape: Rectangle
Color: Black
This is a great packet for children who enjoy dinosaurs. It covers the letter D, number 4, color black and rectangle shape. It has pages of suggested activities and patterns that include dinosaur fact sheets, making dinosaurs from items found around the
house, making a dinosaur habitat, making dinosaur eggs, an excavating activity, making a fossil, a fossil hunt, making dinosaur soap, making dinosaur hats and more. It comes with songs, fingerplays and poems that all relate to dinosaurs. It comes with
several black and white coloring pages and some full color dinosaur fact pages.
Some but not all of the activities have patterns included. I feel it is very important for a child to feel successful by using his or her own imagination. This helps
develop their creativity and makes the projects even more special.
Letter and Number Activities:
Using the provided letter D outline, fill the letter D with dinosaur tracks. Take a small plastic dinosaur and press his feet into poster paint, then make his tracks inside the letter outline.
Look through magazines, cut out items that begin with D
How many boys and girls names can you think of that start with D?
Have a snack that begins with the letter D.
Using the provided number 4 outline do one of the following.
Place 4 dino stickers in the outline.
Glue 4 pictures cut out of old magazines of letter D items in the outline.
Paint 4 sets of dino tracks in the outline, using the method as in the letter D outline.
Use a bingo dobber to put 4 dots in the outline.
Color the outline using 4 different colors.
Glue 4 items cut from magazines that begin with the letter D in the outline
Count to four, four times, use your fingers or small objects.
Using small objects, find 4 alike, find four different
Take four steps to the right, take four steps to the left, again to the front, again to the back. Do this to music. Make up a silly dance doing each step four times in a row.
Color and Shape Activities:
Cut a large triangles from poster board. Have an assortment of small black items or several smaller triangles for the child to glue on the large triangle.
Cut out several triangles and punch a hole near the top point of each one. Hang them in the window using a small suction cup hangers.
Draw a picture made from just triangles. Use different size triangles and have them turned different ways in the picture.
Have child choose several precut, assorted size triangles. Glue them together to make your own version of a dinosaur. Add yarn, buttons and other accessories to complete the picture. Be sure to name your dinosaur.
Have three children lay on the ground at one time to form a body triangle. Have a fourth child try to verbally assist them in doing so, telling each child where they should be and what direction they should lay to form the triangle.
Look through magazines for green items and cut them out. Paste them together on a piece of construction paper to make a collage.
Physical Activities:
Make up a game that incorporates these physical movements: running, hopping, jumping.
Pretend you are a dinosaur, move like a dinosaur (on two or four legs, with your head tall, flying, etc).
In your driveway, using sidewalk chalk, make a new version of Hop Scotch using triangle shapes.
Using sidewalk chalk, have each child take a turn drawing a one part of a dinosaur. What type of dinosaur is it? A real one or a made up one? You can use a picture as a sample if desired.
Using sidewalk chalk, in the driveway, draw four triangles or 4 dinosaurs in one area. Place a number value in each triangle or dinosaur from 1 to 4. Using a good size stone, stand several feet back and roll or toss the stones one at a time in the
direction of the triangles or dinosaurs. How many points did you get?
Hands On Activities:
Toilet Paper Tube Dinosaur
Draw a large dinosaur on butchers paper. Fill in the shape by pasting toilet paper tubes (cut in half lengthwise) to represent bones. When dry, paint green.
Dinosaur Art
Cut dino shapes from poster board, have the child paste cereal on the shape. Allow to dry and paint to make a textured dino.
Dinosaur Habitat
Paint the inside of a shoe box green. Glue brown felt or rough sandpaper to the bottom to represent dirt. Glue dinosaurs, plastic plants, rocks, twigs, moss, inside the box to make a dinosaur habitat.
Dinosaur Eggs
Place a small plastic dinosaur inside a small balloon. Blow the balloon up to the size of a grapefruit and tie it shut. Cover the balloon with paper mache' and allow to dry. Paint the balloon green with brown speckles to represent a dinosaur egg. When
dry, stick a needle through the paper mache' to pop the balloon. Keep them warm for a few days to help the dinosaurs get ready to hatch. After a few days crack the egg open to find a baby dino.
Fossil Excavating
Adult: a few days prior to this excavating activity - Mix together 5 cups sand, 2 cups Plaster of Paris and 2 cups water for each one to two children who will be doing the activity. Mix until well blended. Pour into extra large styrofoam cups or paper
bowls. Immediately push small dinosaurs down into the middle of each cup. Allow to dry a day or two. Bury one mold for each child in the sandbox or hide in the yard. Have the child dig in the sandbox or search the yard looking for fossils, when they find
a mold instruct them to carefully dig at it with a popscicle stick, use a paintbrush to brush away any crumbs to reveal what is inside.
Fossil Excavating II
Adult: hide clean (cleaned, bleached, dried) chicken bones in the sandbox or the sensory table filled with sand. Have the child sift through the sand finding 10 - 12 bones, placing them in a plastic baggie. Take the bones to a work area and brush them
off. Have child assemble their bones on a piece of cardboard the way they think the bones were assembled in the dinosaur. Hot glue them in place.
Make a Fossil
Put a small clump of clay in the bottom of a paper bowl, press a plastic dinosaur into the clay to leave a good, deep, imprint and remove. Pour a layer of plaster paris over the clay about 2" deep. Allow to set overnight. Peel off the paper plate, remove
the clay and you will find a great dinosaur fossil.
Fossil Hunt:
Walk around your yard or a local park and look for fossils, you can find them in stones, in concrete, make a rubbing of the fossils.
Variation:
Fill bottom of bowl with 2" of damp, packed sand instead of clay, follow the rest of the directions as above. Instead of tearing off bowl, turn upside down to release project. Use a toothbrush as a cleaning tool to find and clean off the fossil.
Dinosaur Soap
A great activity for the sensory table: Mix Ivory Snow Flakes with enough water to make a dough. Take a plastic dinosaur and form an egg shape around it with the mix. Allow them to dry, the child can use the bar of soap to wash their hands, eventually
they will find the dinosaur again.
Dinosaur Hats
Take four paper plates per child and fold three of them in half, staple or tape closed. Lay them in a straight line with the flat edge toward you, overlap each plate and staple together. String a piece of yarn through the fourth paper plate to make a hat
that ties under the chin. On the top plate of the three that are attached, cut a slit about 3" long down the folded line and fold the flaps back, attach the flaps by stapling them to the top hat, decorate the hats with green bingo markers or felt pens.
You have made a stegosaurs hat.
Dinosaur Hatchings
Paint paper plates with brown paint. Paint on a thin layer of glue in the center, place some straw on the glue. Glue a half of a broken egg shell in the middle of the straw, next to the egg shell glue a small plastic dinosaur.
Definitions:
Learn about the following and what they mean. The internet or the library makes a great resource for this activity. Going to the library would make a good field trip. Or books could be brought to the child from the library.
Plant Eater =
Meat Eater =
Fossils Are =
Reptiles Are =
Cold Blooded Means =
Story Writing:
Have the child write a short story about their own personal dinosaur. Where would it sleep, what would it eat, what your neighbors think, etc. Take turns reading them to each other.
Dinosaur Names:
Pick a name for the child to use when helping. For instance if they relay a message they can be a Messengerasaurus, if they are feeding the pet they can be a petasaurus, if they are helping clean they can be a cleanasaurus, etc.
Dinosaur Research:
Look through books from the library and find out interesting facts about dinosaurs. Where did they live? How big were they? How many kinds can you identify?
Songs, Fingerplays and Poems:
Songs:
Here Is A Triangle (using the green triangle from the color and shape activity) (tune: Feres Jacques)
Here is a Triangle, hanging in the window,
See how swell, how can you tell?
It has three of the same sides, it has three of the same sides
It's a triangle, it's a triangle.
Oh Where Did The Dinosaur Go? (Where, Oh Where Did My Little Dog Go)
Oh where, oh where did the dinosaurs go?
Oh where, oh where could they be?
They are much too big to just disappear,
It sure is puzzling to me!
Baby Dinosaur (Baby Bumblebee)
I'm bringing home a baby dinosaur
Won't my mommy fall right to the floor
I'm bringing home a baby dinosaur
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!!
Fingerplay:
Dinosaurs, dinosaurs,
Where could you be? (look around with hand at forehead)
Hiding somewhere, where no one can see (hands behind back)
Now I see one, it's waiting just for you (show one hand)
Out comes the other, now you see two (show other hand)
Poems:
Five Dinosaurs
Five big dinosaurs, five and not one more
One chased a blue bird and then there were four
Four big dinosaurs, tall as a tree
One went for a walk, and then there were three
Three big dinosaurs, don’t know what to do
One went swimming, then there were two
Two big dinosaurs can play and have fun
But one went for away and then there was one
One big dinosaur tired of all the fun
Closed his great big eyes and now there are none