Dinosaur Eggs and Fossils

Aiden and I are going to end our dinosaur theme week by reading Fossils Tell of Long Ago, and going on an archaeologists dig.  The kids helped me make dinosaur eggs and fossils, which we will add to our sandbox.  These need to dry for a about a week, so we made them earlier in the week.

I found the idea for dinosaur eggs here.   

What You Need:

1 cup of used coffee grounds

1 cup of flour

1/2 cup of salt

1/2 cup sand (I didn’t have any sand when I made these so I just added some extra salt – they still turned out fine.)

Water

What You’ll Do:

1. Combine flour, coffee, salt and sand together.
2. Mix in water gradually, adding until the mixture holds together. Using less water will result in faster drying.
3. Take a portion of the dough and form an egg shape around each plastic dinosaur. Let eggs dry for about a week.
4. Use a hammer to open the eggs.

The idea for the dinosaur fossils can from Our Crafts~N~Things.

What You’ll Need:

Crayola Model Magic (in the color of your choice)

Small plastic dinosaurs

What You’ll Do:

1. Roll the Model Magic out, and press it down until it is flat.
2. Press a small dinosaur into the clay hard enough to leave an impression.
3. Allow to dry a few days before playing with them.

~Cindy

Aidenzilla or An Alphabet Learning Activity

I am always trying to find, or come up with learning activities to do with Aiden.  He is a very active boy, and learns much faster when he is physically doing something.  

I wanted to come up with some learning activities that included dinosaurs, our theme this week.  I made Aiden a pair of dinosaur shoes out of foam sheets. 

To do this, I cut four pieces of foam in the shape of a dinosaur footprint, cut circles big enough for Aiden to slip his foot in, and used a black sharpie to color the toenails.  To put the pieces together I hot glued around the edges.  

Aiden absolutely LOVED the dinosaur shoes!

Here he is looking fierce, like a dinosaur should!

Now on to the activity.  I set up some of his wooden blocks in towers, and put a sticky note, with a letter of the alphabet, on each tower.   As I called out a letter, Aiden would find it and knock over the blocks.

 

Aiden played this game for over 20 minutes,

and would have continued to play, but mommy really needed to help Emily with some schoolwork.

-Cindy