We decided to study dinosaurs for a new unit this late spring.
I had Pipiri keep a running list of subjects she would like to study and dinosaurs was at the top of the list.
I got her a ton of Dino books to start out...both nonfiction and fiction.
We read these..
We found so many amazing facts about them...some were different in different books so we had to really research for the right answer (as right as you can get when it comes to Dino's...there are so many unknowns).
We wrote many of the facts in her Main Lesson Book. We also drew dinosaurs using these
and these
and these
then she labeled them in her MLB.
and these and these then she labeled them in her MLB.
I always draw on one page and she does her drawings on the opposite. She loves for me to create with her.
She also loves to trace her wooden animals...so she traced and colored this
cutie!
cutie!
We made dinosaur fossil slice and bake cookies. I like easy baking...
Slice and bake dough...flattened a bit.
Make imprints using these
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Bake..EZ
We made tie died salt dough fossils also.
Salt dough is so ez.
2 cups white flour. 1 cup salt. I cup luke warm water. Stir.
We then divided the dough into several different blobs...added 5-10 drops of food coloring to each blob...and then we kneeded the dough to mix the colors.
The tie die turned out super cool!
Then we made 3-4 inch flattened circles and gently pressed the plastic dinosaurs into each circle of dough...some we added Dino feet prints to...pips idea.
We also had some dough left but no cookie sheets so we used a muffin pan. Very cool effect with these too!
Bake at 200 degrees for 2-4 hours...depending on thickness and oven temps.
I flipped ours over when they were completely hard on top but yet still doughy on bottom.
They turned out so awesome!
We used the dinosaur fossils for a late spring nature table. She has played nonstop with it...
For this unit of study...we also have listened to Walk Like a Dinosaur and we did this
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