Over my many years of teaching I have always been amazed and intrigued by children’s love of dinosaurs and their ability to remember all the dinosaurs names! How can little children remember all these tricky names, distinguish between them, know whether they are a carnivore or herbivore and understand how they died many years ago? It is amazing.
Well the fact of the matter is there is something so exciting about dinosaurs because we will never get to witness them walking beside us – which quite frankly is a relief when you think a T-Rex is suggested to have been about 12 metres long! However, this week we have stepped back in time, walked them around our messy play venues in Sussex and had lots of fun! You may have even heard a few dinosaur ROARS too?
Whoosh explores Dinosaurs
We have had a great week exploring this spectacular theme. Please see below some of the activities that the children have enjoyed and experienced.
We have had a ROARTASTIC time this week exploring DINOSAURS. Before the session began, some dinosaurs had been to explore the activities and had left their footprints all over the room. The children enjoyed finding the 10 dino footprints.
Stomp stomp went the dinosaurs through the paint. Can you spot which dinosaur made each of the different tracks?!
The children became palaeontologists and dug for bones in the sand! There were bones of all shapes and sizes and we even managed to piece together a whole Triceratops!
The challenge this week was to make a dinosaur skeleton out of the tubes – the adults enjoyed this activity too! Here is our velociraptor created with the watchful eye and some very handy instructions from one child “it needs 2 little legs at the front and 2 big legs at the back.” Ta daaahhhh 🙂
And of course a messy play week wouldn’t be complete without the paper plate craft challenge… a dinosaur using ½ a paper plate and some extra bits!
Great books to share and enjoy
- Dinosaur ROAR by Henrietta Stickland
- Stomp Dinosaur Stomp by Margaret Mayo
- Mad about Dinosaurs by Giles Andreae,
- Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here come the Dinosaurs by Kaye Umansky
- Ten Little Dinosaurs by Mike Brownlow
- Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus by Tony Mitton
Songs about Dinosaurs
- Try changing the words from 5 little ducks went swimming one day to …5 dinosaurs went out one day
- This is the way we like to Roar, stomp, swish our tails.