Dinosaur Week

Our toddlers aren’t going extinct with our Dinosaur Week. When you think of dinosaurs old and boring usually come to mind, but we found some great ways to make dinosaurs fun and exciting.

 

The concept of dinosaurs can be a little hard for a toddler to understand. So, why not make it come to life a little. We started off by having a small discussion about if dinosaurs lived in the zoo or jungle and if we had ever seen one before.

 

 

After the class has become a little more familiar with the idea of dinosaurs, it was time to get them up and moving. We had so much fun pretending to be dinosaurs as we went through the motions of this song:

 

What better way to make our theme come to life than to make a 3D dinosaur cave for our dramatic play. I started off by tapping four strips of brown paper together using scotch tape. After taping the brown paper to a secure area, I took a hula hoop and wrapped the open end of the paper around it. I finished it off by cutting some jungle looking leafs out of green paper and adding it to the opening of the cave. My class loved pretending to be dinosaurs as we read dinosaur themed books in our Dino Cave.



Our Dinosaur Stomp game was a great way to practice our gross motor skills. I started off by cutting out green dinosaur foot prints. I then used contact paper to laminate the prints to the floor. My toddlers had a great time as we stomped over the prints roaring as loudly as we could.

 

 We had such a great time learning all about dinosaurs.

Hope you have a roaring great time also!