Dinosaur Theme – Preschool Activites & Lesson Plans
Dinosaur Theme Preschool Lesson Plans.
Preschool theme ideas & activites for learning about dinosaurs.
Free Printable Pages – View Below!
Do you need dinosaur activities for your daycare or preschool classroom? You will love our fun ideas and easy to use lesson plans for teaching children about dinosaurs with our fun hands on activities, printable pages, crafts, games, words to songs, rhymes, stories, circle time, literacy, math, gross motor and many other learning activities for preschool kids ages 2.5 to 6.
Preschool Dinosaur Theme
Preschool Lesson Plans
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August Preschool Curriculum – Week 4
Review Letters – Review Numbers
Free Printable Pages – View Below!
We have a full week of dinosaur theme lesson plans in our preschool August curriculum.
Circle Time
Dinosaur Color Game
Pompom Match Up
Free Dinosaur Game
Dinosaur Game Download
This is a fun dinosaur circle time activity that teaches children their colors, or for children that know some of their colors this is a great way to review colors with the children in a fun way.
Our dinosaur color match up game {shown above} was made to be used with colored pompoms.
Our dinosaur match up page has 8 colored circles that children will match pompoms by color to the circles on the dinosaur.
Children just love this fun educational activity which helps them with their fine motor and color matching skills.
This fun engaging dinosaur activity will delight even the youngest learners.
You will need pompoms that are red, blue, green, white, brown.pink, black and yellow and have the children take turns matching up the pompoms to the dinosaur by color.
Print out the dinosaur game onto heavy paper such as whitecard stock paper.
We hope you enjoyed this dinosaur color game. We have more ideas and free printables below. Our fun dinosaur ideas on this page were made to be used with preschool children ages 2.5 to 6.
For more fun ideas like this one please visit our August preschool curriculum for lots of fun hands–on activities for the children in your daycare, preschool or a stay at home mom who wants to begin teaching her child now to get him/her ready for school.
Story Time
Five Hungry Dinosaurs
Printable Story
Five Hungry Dinosaurs
Five Hungry Dinosaurs Free Book Download
Print out the free printable book Five Hungry Dinosaurs, cute rhyming story.
What child doesn’t love dinosaurs and now they can sing along with these colorful dinosaurs as they stomp along singing their favorite dinosaur song! Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum, where are those great big green leaves? I want to find some, yum, yum!
This is a wonderful rhyming story for all ages. Children will enjoy singing with these cute dinosaurs over and over again. A fun interactive book that the whole classroom will love!
Our August preschool curriculum is broken down into four weeks {Birds, Nursery Rhymes, Picnics and BBQ's & Dinosaurs.}
Dinosaur Song
Hokey Pokey Dinosaur
Interactive Song
Dinosaur Song
Hokey Pokey Dinosaur Song
Fun Gross Motor Outside Game
Adapted From Hokey Pokey Song
You put your dinosaur in
You take your dinosaur out
You put your dinosaur in
And you stomp him all about
You do the dino dance
And you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!
{Clap hands twice at the end of the song}
Free Dinosaur Puppet Cards
Use With The Song Shown Above
Dinosaur Craft Stick Puppets Download
Print out one dinosaur card per child onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper, you may want to laminate the dinosaurs to make them more durable,
attach the dinosaurs to large craft sticks for the older children and to paper towel rolls for the younger children to make puppets for them to use with the song above.
Our lesson plans include a song or rhyme each day {5 days per week}.
Dinosaur Craft
Dinosaur Puppets
Make Dinosaur Paper Bag Puppets
Dinosaur Paper Bag Puppet Download
Fun craft for your dinosaur week making paper bag puppets!
Kids love dinosaurs and what a cute easy craft for the kids who are learning about dinosaurs! This is a paper bag dinosaur puppet that is simple for the kids to make! What’s more fun for kids than singing a dinosaur song with their new dinosaur puppets, kids can do the dinosaur hokey pokey song, and act out the movements as they sing the dinosaur song!
Print out either the dinosaur that is in color or the black and white one, print out the dinosaur puppet onto heavy white paper such as white cardstock paper. If you print out the black and white puppet, have the children color the puppet and then cut it out and glue or tape onto a paper bag. You will need to turn the paper bag upside down and tape the head of the dinosaur to the bottom of the bag {the top of the flap of the bag}. Then lift the flap of the bag and place the bottom part of the mouth of the dinosaur under the flap of the bag and continue taping or gluing the rest of the dinosaur onto the front of the bag.
Show children how they can place their hand into the bag and find the flap of the back and move their hand just right to make it look like the dinosaur is opening and closing his mouth, great fun!
For this activity you will need:
White heavy paper such as white cardstock paper, scissors, tape or glue, crayons or markers and a lunch sized paper bags or a white craft bag.
Fun and simple crafts that engage the children and help them to focus on the colors they are learning about this week.
Pre-Reading Skills
D Is For Dinosaur
With Paint Daubers
D Is For Dinosaur {In Color} Download
D Is For Dinosaur {Black & White} Download
Pre–Reading Literacy Activity
Teaching Letter D
Print out the “D is for dinosaur” page onto copy paper, you will need one page per child.
Have the children trace the sentence “D is for dinosaur” at the top of the page with a crayon, marker or thick pencil.
Then have them find all the D’s on the bottom of the page and either circle them, put a circle sticker on them or dab them with a paint dauber.
Provide the children with the D is for dinosaur pre–reading activity page and have them dab all the D's with their paint daubers also called paint markers or bingo daubers.
Math Time
Counting To 12
With Circle Stickers
Preschool Math
Number Recognition Activity
Number 12 Counting & Stamping! {To Count & Stamp} Download
Print out the number 12 printable page shown above onto copy paper, you will need one page per child.
Have the children place a circle sticker on each circle on the number 12 or they can dab all the circles on the number 12 with a paint dauber.
Our January preschool curriculum includes 4 weeks of lesson plans which includes circle time, story time, song or rhyme, pre reading, math, science, gross motor movement & a special activity each day {5 days per week}.
January Preschool Curriculum
Week 1
New Year's Theme
Week 2
Hibernation Theme
Week 3
Color Theme
Week 4
Teddy Bear Theme
Click here to view our January preschool curriculum which includes the color theme lesson plans shown on this page.
Dinosaur Science & Discovery
Science For Kids
Paleontologist
What Is A Paleontologist?
New word: Talk to the children about what paleontologists are and how they dig for bones.
This would be a good time for the children to pretend they are a paleontologist.
You will need a sand table filled with clean sand or use an outside sandbox. You will need some dog bones or print out some pretend dionosaur bones and lamanate these.
Teacher will need to bury some dog bones or paper dinosaur bones in the sand table in the classroom or in the sandbox outside. Have the children pretend they are paleontologist and have the children go on a dinosaur dig.
To make it more fun, offer the children safari hats, which can be found online at Amazon for about $8.00 each right now but prices can change or you can check out Oriental Trading. I found on Oriental Trading that have 12 safari hats for about $9.00 right now, but prices can change, the hats at Oriental Trading are a lot less expensive but probably won’t last long, if you want to use these year after year, you may want to look for a better quality hat. The hats on Amazon for $8.00 each looked like nice quality hats. If you can get into a local store to actually see the hats then you would know for sure what your getting before purchasing them.
What child doesn’t love to play in the sand, place some paint brushes in your sand area and show the children how they can use the paintbrushes to sweep the sand off the bones.
Our August curriculum lesson plans are super fun and affordable you can purchase the entire month for only $15.00! Click here to view
Physical Development Movements
Gross Motor
Jumping Game
Dinosaur Color Jump Game!
Fun Gross Motor Outside Activity
Stomp, romp, jump, roar! This game is sure to be a hit with the kids!
Teacher will need to print out the dinosaur color cards and lamanate them to make them durable. This is a great game to teach kids their colors and to motivate them to have fun jumping around and getting some gross motor exercise!
Teacher will need either different colored cloth placemats or towels. Set these outside in your play area. You will want to make several long lines so many kids can play at once.
Have the children jump from one placemat to the next one, each placemat will have a different colored dinosar on it, each child will need to look down and tell you what color the dinosaur is before they can move onto the next square. If they say the wrong color, they need to start over.
Our curriculum lesson plans includes a gross motor activity each day {5 days per week}.
Special Activity
Dinosaur Game
Dinosaur, Dinosaur, T– Rex!
Have all the children sit in a circle, this activity works best outside.
Teacher will begin the game and she will be “it” and she will walk around the circle and she walks around the circle she will lightly tape each childs head or shoulder.
She will say the word dinosaur as she taps childs head, repeat with each child, until she eventually chooses one of the children to swim after her and teacher will say “T-Rex”.
This child will jump up and “run” after the teacher and teacher will “run” around the circle to that child’s spot and quickly sit down.
Now this child is now “it” and he/she will begin by saying “dinosaur” and lightly tapping each childs head or shoulder as he/she walks around the circle.
The object of the game is to lightly tap each person as the child walks around the circle and then eventually say “run” and they will try to get back to that child’s spot and sit down.
Now the child that was “running” after the teacher, they will start the game over by saying, dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosur...T–Rex
Try to encourge the child to pick someone that hasn’t had a turn yet.
