Erupting Dinosaur Extinction Slime

Supplies:
½ cup white school glue
2 Tbsp baking soda
1 Tbsp contact solution (with boric acid included) (If you don’t have it, a tsp of borax will work)
¼ cup white vinegar
Red and yellow food coloring
1 jar
1 cookie sheet/plastic container to contain materials
Small dinosaur figurines
Cup/bowl

Directions
1. Take your cookie sheet/container and place your dinosaurs on it.
2. Place your jar on the cookie sheet/container.
3. Start by mixing the glue and baking soda in the jar.
4. Add a few of drops of yellow food coloring and stir it in.
5. Drop a few of red food coloring on top after, but don’t stir it. (This will create a color changing
reaction as it erupts, too, making it look like hot lava.
6. In another cup or bowl, mix the vinegar and contact solution.
7. Pour the vinegar solution into the jar while stirring.
8. As you pour the vinegar solution, this will cause an amazing foaming color changing reaction that
overflows all over your dinosaurs.
9. When you take what’s left in the jar and what over flowed, play with it. It will turn into an
awesome slime that you can continue to play with.
Cardboard Dinosaur Activity

Supplies

1-large piece of cardboard

Pencil
Colorful acrylic paint
Sponge paint brush
X-acto knife
Sharp scissors

Directions
1. If you have large pieces of cardboard, you can make large cardboard dinosaurs. If it’s too much
cutting or if you only have small cardboard, you can make small cardboard dinosaurs.
2. With a pencil, draw outlines on cardboard of the following shapes: 2 pairs of legs, 1 dinosaur
body. (For a stegosaurus, pentagons or spade shapes work well for the spikes).
3. Cut out the shapes with scissors and/or X-acto knife, whichever you are more comfortable with.
4. On the cardboard feet, cut rectangle slits approximately the width of the cardboard dinosaur body.
A snug fit is preferred, so that the legs don’t slide out.
5. Paint the dinosaur desired colors.
6. Assemble and enjoy.
Dinosaur Pasta Skeleton Activity
Supplies

Uncooked pasta-provide a variety of different shapes/colors

White glue
Dinosaur template
Optional, googly eyes

Directions

1. Provide each child with a dinosaur template.

2. Allow child to apply glue to dinosaur template.
3. Allow child to pick and apply noodles onto dinosaur template.
4. Apply googly eyes to dinosaur.
5. Allow dinosaurs to dry.
Walking Dinosaurs

Supplies

Paper plates
Toilet paper rolls
Paint brushes
Paint trays
Paint shirts
Toy dinosaurs
Cardstock paper
Googly eyes
Washable paint

Directions

1. Cut a paper plate in half and paint them the colors you want.
2. Cut a toilet paper roll in half and paint them the same colors as the dinosaurs.
3. Create a head and tail for the dinosaurs. (If making a stegosaurus, you’ll want to make the head
small, and the brachiosaurus’s neck will be long).
4. Make small boney plates for the stegosaurus using white card stock.
5. Have the kids create dinosaur prints using their toy dinosaurs with pain on the plates.
6. You can also have the kids make prints on the dinosaur’s body to add some extra color.
7. Make two small cuts on both sides of the toilet paper roll, so they can fit on the paper plate to
walk.
Lego Stamped Art Dinosaurs
Supplies
White paper or cardstock
Colored paper for the backing
Glue
Scissors
Paint in your choice of colors
A paper plate or tray to put the paint on
Duplo or any other type of blocks (different sizes)

Directions

1. Print or draw your dinosaurs on the white paper.

2. Set up your paints on a tray or plate. (Using paper or plastic plates make this activity easier to
clean up when done).
3. Have your child stamp the dinosaur. Encourage them to use different colors and shapes.
4. Don’t worry about the child going over the lines of the picture as it will be cut out at the end.
5. After painting, leave your paintings to dry.
6. Then it’s time to cut out your dinosaurs.
7. Draw an eye on each dinosaur or use googly eyes.
8. Glue the cut-out dinosaurs onto the colored paper or cardstock.
9. Cut around the dinosaur leaving a ½ inch gap. This will create a nice border.
10. Hang them on display.
Fizzy Dino Eggs

Supplies

Baking soda
Vinegar
Water
Plastic wrap (optional)
Food coloring
Small plastic dinosaur figurines
Squirt bottle, eyedropper, or baster

Directions

1. Make sure to set up this activity ahead of time as you will need to place the dinosaur eggs into the
freezer before they are ready to hatch.
2. Start by slowly adding water to a good load of baking soda. You will want to add just enough
until you get a crumbly but pack-able dough. It shouldn’t be runny or soupy. You can divide the
baking soda and water mixture into bowls and color each one separately with food coloring.
3. Now turn the baking soda mixture into dinosaur eggs. Pack the mixture around your plastic
dinosaurs. You can use plastic wrap to help keep the shape.
4. Place your dinosaur eggs in the freezer for as long as you like. The more frozen they are, the
longer it will take to melt them.
5. Add the dinosaur eggs to a large, deep dish or bucket and set out a bowl of vinegar. Let the kids
squirt the baking soda eggs and watch them fizz until the dinosaurs are hatched.
6. Make sure to have extra vinegar handy.
5 Little Dinosaurs
Five little dinosaurs trying hard to roar,
One stomped away, and then there were four.

Four little dinosaurs, hiding near a tree,

One stomped away, and then there were three.

Three little dinosaurs, peaking at you,

One stomped away, and then there were two.

Two little dinosaurs, ready now to run,

One stomped away, and then there was one.

One little dinosaur, not having any fun,

He stomped away, and then there were none.
Dinosaur, Dinosaur

Dinosaur, dinosaur,
Turn around,
Dinosaur, dinosaur,
Stomp the ground.

Dinosaur, dinosaur,
Show your claws.
Dinosaur, dinosaur,
Snap your jaws.

Dinosaur, dinosaur,
Turn around.
Dinosaur, dinosaur,
Sit back down!
Building a Dinosaur Nest

Supplies

Buckets
Mud
Items from a nature hunt (grass, sticks, leaves, etc.)

Directions
1. Start by talking about what a nest is and then talk about the two different types of nests dinosaurs
made. (Holes burrowed into the ground or raised mud nests). We will be creating the raised mud
nests. Think like a dinosaur.
2. Ask your child how they think a dinosaur went about building their nests.
3. Collect grass, sticks, and dirt.
4. Place those nest items into your plastic container and mix.
5. Once you have mixed all your nest items, you will want to “mold” your nest and find a safe place
to put the nest.
Dino Dig
Supplies
Kinetic beach sand or Kinetic sand
Plastic bin
Dinosaur fossil skeleton toys
Toothbrush or paintbrush
Magnifying glass (optional)

Directions
1. Fill up a small plastic bin with Kinetic beach sand or regular Kinetic sand. Both are excellent
materials, though the beach sand is preferred because it’s more coarse and easier to clean off toys.
2. Bury dinosaur fossil skeletons and skulls into the sand. If desired, pack the sand tightly around
the toys.
3. Invite your child to carefully excavate the fossils with a toothbrush or paintbrush.
4. When all the fossils are removed and identified, rebury them and dig again.
a. Ideas for play: count the dinosaur bones
b. Sort the bones by size, shape, color
c. Read a story about dinosaurs
d. Watch a movie about dinosaurs
e. Wash the dinosaur bones with soap, water, and a sponge
Dinosaur Hunt
Supplies
Bucket
Plastic dinosaur figurines

Directions
1. Place your dinosaurs throughout your outside area. Make sure you keep count and location of
each dinosaur.
2. Have your child use their bucket and find the lost dinosaurs.
Shadow Drawing
Supplies
Markers
Large dinosaur figurines
Large white piece of paper

Directions

1. Find a smooth surface to lay down the large piece of paper.

2. Next, place your dinosaur figurines on the edge of the paper, where the sun will hit on them,
creating the shadow on the opposite side of the white paper.
3. Allow the children to use the markers and trace the dinosaur shadows.