Dinos Alive!
By Patricia Peters
Books to Share
Dinosnores by Kelly S. DiPucchio
Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
I'm Bad by Kate and Jim McMullan
Life-Size Dinosaurs by David Bergen
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Breach
Books to Show or Booktalk
Buying, Training and Caring for Your Dinosaur by Laura Rennert
Dinosaurs: Encyclopedia Prehistorica by Robert Sabuda
Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
Tadpole Rex by Kurt Cyrus
Bulletin Board
Read to Your Dino
Use the bulletin board paper created for the beach scene. Add pictures of trees and fill the bulletin board with pictures of a variety of dinosaur reading books.
Nametag
Dinosaurs
Make dinosaur nametags using the patterns provided in this program.
Costumes and Props
Welcome the children to the program with a dinosaur puppet, such as the dinosaur egg with a baby dinosaur inside it available from Folkmanis, http://www.folkmanis.com/handpuppet_detail.php?item_no=2061=.
Dance and Movement Songs
Dino Stomp
(Play a recording of the "The Bunny Hop." The children hold their hands like claws and make the following movements. Keep repeating the movements until the music ends.)
Stomp right, rock back, stomp right.
Stomp left, rock back, stomp left.
Brandish claws and growl three times.
Stomp right, stomp left, stomp right.
Fingerplays
Tiny Dinosaurs
(By Patricia Peters)
Dinosaurs tiny, dinosaurs tall (Palms close together one atop the other; move apart to show tall)
Dinosaurs large, and dinosaurs small (Hands wide apart; move close together)
But the dinosaur I would most like to see (Hand above eyes "searching")
Is a dinosaur who will play with me. (Point to self with both thumbs)
Rhymes and Poetry
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast by Jack Prelutsky
Flannel Boards
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs
Make a felt version of each of the dinosaurs from Ten Terrible Dinosaurs by Paul Stickland. Place all ten dinosaurs on the flannelboard and remove one dinosaur at a time as you read or tell the story.
Crafts
Design-a-Dino
Materials
- Dinosaur patterns
- Drawing paper (newsprint, sketch paper or white copier paper)
- Pencils
- Markers
- Scissors
- Glue sticks
- Construction paper
- Crayons
Directions
Allow each child to choose a head, a body, and a tail pattern to design their own dinosaur using one of Pattern I, Pattern II, and Pattern III provided at the end of this chapter. Trace the outline of each piece onto drawing paper. Decorate each part and cut out the pieces. Glue the pieces onto construction paper, creating a unique dinosaur, like Professor Potts in Big Old Bones. Use crayons to decorate the background. Alternatively, give each child all three complete patterns. Let them decorate all three, cut them apart, and mix and match.
Games and Activities
Dinosaur Identification Game
Use a website such as Search4Dinosaurs, http://www.search4dinosaurs.com, to download and print images of a variety of dinosaurs. Allow your budding paleontologists to identify each one.
Craft Materials
Design-a-Dino Craft Pattern I
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Design-a-Dino Craft Pattern II
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Design-a-Dino Craft Pattern III
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