It is important that your children know that dinosaurs don't exist any more and that they died off before people were on the earth, no matter what some movies show. This theme will be a favorite of many boys and girls so have fun. You can measure out the length of a dinosaur down a hallway, or put children's feet in a dinosaur footprint to get a better view of how big some of them were.
Art Activities
Books
Songs/Fingerplays
Center/Misc Ideas
Painting Brontosaurus
Cut out big pattern of dinosaur and let the children paint them any color they choose.
Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!
DINOSAURS LIVED LONG AGO
Tune: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Dinosaurs lived long ago.
Some ran fast and some moved slow.
Some ate plants and some ate meat.
Some had spikes or very sharp teeth
I'm so glad I didn't live then.
Oh how scared I would have been!
Plastic Dinosaurs With Baby Dinosaurs In Eggs
Let the children play with plastic dinosaurs and put some plastic eggs with baby dinosaurs in the sand table.
Dinosaur Footprints
Take plastic dinosaurs and let them walk through fast drying playdough or modeling clay to make footprint fossels.
Dinosaur Roar
Digging Up Dinosaurs
DINOSAURS LIVED LONG AGO
Tune: London Bridge Is Falling Down
Dinosaurs lived long ago, long ago, long ago,
Dinosaurs lived long ago, Now there’re extinct!
Verses:
Tyrannosaurus had big sharp teeth, big sharp teeth, big sharp teeth
Brontosaurus was very big, very big, very big,
Stegasaurus wore plates on his back, plates on his back, plates on his back
Triceratops had 3 sharp horns, 3 sharp horns, 3 sharp horns
Pterodactyl could fly in the air , fly in the air, fly in the air.
All the dinosaurs died long ago, died long ago, died long ago,
Dinosaur Footprint
Cut out a T-Rex footprint and trace all the children's footprints inside the T-Rex footprint.
Stegasaurus Spikes
Use cash register tape and glue stegasaurus triangular like spikes alternating one on left next on right the length of the childs back down to their ankles. Then paperclip them to the back of their collar on shirt and let the child pretend to be a Stegasaurus.
You Can Name 100 Dinossaurs!
WHEN DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH
Tune: The Wheels On The Bus
The stegosaursus had plates on his back,
Plates on his back, plates on his back
The stegosaursus had plates on his back,
When dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Verses:
Tyrannosaurus Rex had 2 little arms,
Brontosaurus had a very long tail,
Triceratops had 3 sharp horns, 3 sharp horns, 3 sharp horns
Pterodactyl could fly in the air , fly in the air, fly in the air.
Stegosaurus Stomp
Let the children parade around as dinosaurs.
Paper Plate Brontesaurus
Tape bubble wrap to the table and have the children roller paint it blue, and green and then take the patterns of paper plate dinosaur and lay them down on the painted bubble wrap. Then assemble when dry so the dinosaurs look like they have scales.
Little Kids First Big Book Of Dinosaurs
The Usborne Big Book Of Big Dinosaurs
DINOSAURS
Tune: Oscar Meyer Weiner
Oh I want to be a great big Dinosaur.
That is what I truly want to be.
For if I were a great big Dinosaur
Everyone would want to ride on me.
Dinosaur Bones In Discovery Table
Let the children use paint brushes to discover dog bones in the sand table.
Dinosaur Die Cuts or Stamps
Let the children glue or stamp the dinosaurs on to a long sheet of paper and then draw background lakes and trees to make a wonderful scene.
The Big Book of Dinosaurs
National Geographic Dinosaurs
THE DINO DITTY
Tune: Ditty Dum Ditty Do
Here he comes just a stomping with his feet,
Singing Dino, ditty, ditty-dum, ditty do,
Searching all around for something good to eat.
Singing Dino, ditty, ditty-dum, ditty do.
He's huge. -echo- He's strong. -echo- He's huge, he's strong.
Won't be hungry very long.
Dino, ditty, ditty-dum, ditty do
Yeah, Dino, ditty, ditty-dum, ditty do.