105+ Easy and Fun Dinosaur Activities for Preschoolers and Toddlers

There is just something about dinosaurs that appeals to children of all ages, but especially to preschoolers and toddlers. If your kids are anything like mine, you may often be scouring the internet for ideas, and while your kiddos may not be quite ready to study paleontology- they are certainly ready for some easy (and fun!) dinosaur activities!

I scoured the internet for you, to find the best of the best dinosaur activities for preschoolers, and with all of the choices, there is sure to be one that your budding paleontologist will love!

Whether you’re looking for a quick and easy activity or one that’s a little more in-depth, you’ll find plenty of ideas from dinosaur printables, dinosaur coloring pages, and dinosaur arts and crafts that are perfect for the youngest of artists. Just scroll down to see what dinosaur activities I’ve gathered up for you!

Free Printable Dinosaur Coloring Pages with Names

These free printable dinosaur coloring pages with names are perfect for your dino-loving little one. There are nine popular dinos with two different poses for each one for plenty of coloring fun! You can choose the names in bubble letters for coloring or in a dotted font for handwriting practice. Whichever you choose- your little one is sure to love this dinosaur activity for preschoolers!

DIY Dinosaur Swamp Activity- Sensory Bin

This dinosaur swamp activity is so simple to put together and can be customized to fit what your child loves, and what they can handle! You can any assortment of fake or live plants, rocks, or other props to complete the scenery. Make sure you keep choking hazzards out of the activity if your child is still prone to putting things in their mouth. This a great idea for a unique sensory bin.

Dinosaur Do-a-Dot Pages

These free printable dinosaur do-a-dot pages are a fun, no-prep dinosaur activity for preschoolers or toddlers. Dot marker pages are a perfect and incredibly easy activity for any time you need something low-prep to keep your little one busy. They are also great for developing hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills.

Edible Dinosaur Dig Sensory Bin

This activity is a great sensory exploration that kids can literally dig their hands into. What I love about this activity is that it it can easily be adjusted based on your child’s interests or age level. Plus it doubles as a dessert! Win/win!

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Dinosaur Handprint Craft

You can use your child’s handprints for this adorable dinosaur activity for toddlers. Your kids will love tracing their hands and decorating their dinosaur creation. Have fun choosing different colors and styles.

Frozen Dinosaur Eggs

Kids love dinosaurs, and kids love ice. Put them together, and you get one of the best activities ever! 

In this dinosaur ice excavation activity, your kid will get to excavate the dinosaurs from their frozen eggs. Not only does this learning activity involve science and fine motor skills, but your kids will also have lots of fun playing with water and exploring various tools.

Dinosaur Tar Pit Black Slime

Dinosaur Tar Pit Black Slime is a fun black slime recipe that adds plastic dinosaurs to make it even more fun! Use this dinosaur activity when teaching kids about dinosaurs or just a fun dinosaur activity for preschoolers.

Foam Jurassic World

This awesome sensory dinosaur activity for preschoolers is the perfect outside activity for your kids. It will help them to stay cool during hot days while playing with their favorite toys!

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Movable Dinosaur Craft

This movable dinosaur craft is a fun project for boys and girls alike. Engage your child in the prehistoric world with this easy paper dinosaur that comes to life! Use this kid’s craft as an opportunity to enlighten your little ones of the world that once was- long, long ago.

Dinosaur Feet

Get ready to stomp with giant dinosaur feet! Plus, learn how to play a fun t-rex game too! If your kids are a fan of the Jurassic Park movies, their favorite dinos are T-Rex, an Indoraptor, or if they love all dinosaurs. You’ll want to see this dinosaur activity for preschoolers!

D is for Dinosaur

This adorable handprint art is perfect for the little dinosaur lover who also loves arts and crafts! You can experiment with painting different parts of the hand, using different colors, or adding various spikes, and other details.

Dinosaur Counting Sheets

These fun preschool dinosaur counting worksheets will make a great way for them to learn a few math skills while also having a blast with their favorite theme. As there are 4 different worksheets to choose from, you are sure to find one that your kiddo will love.

Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils for Toddlers

Kid salt dough dinosaur fossils are cute little fossils made with an easy salt dough recipe and perfect to entertain small kids for hours. They are fun to make and great entertainment for your toddlers and preschoolers.

Dinosaur Activity Pages

These printables for preschooler pages include a Dinosaur I Spy page, a coloring page, a word search, and a maze. And all your child will need in order to use 3 these pages is a pencil or crayon!

Paint Resist Dinosaur Art (Printable)

Cut out the dinosaur templates and paste or tape them onto a canvas or cardstock. Have student paint all over the background and even onto the template that’s pasted down. When they are finished, peel up the dinosaur template and you have an awesome art creation.

Build a Shape Dinosaur (template)

Have students cut out various shapes of small triangles, small rectangles, squares, and a large half circle out of green or brown construction paper. Put them together to create an image of a dinosaur. Make the first one to show them what it will look like.

Duplo-Stamped Process Art (Template)

Kids loving using other modalities to paint other than paint brush. Have them dip duplo blocks into paint and stamp this dinosaur template – then cut it out – to create a one-of-a-kind piece of dinosaur art.

Pasta Dino Fossils (Printable)

Use different types of uncooked pasta noodles (elbow macaroni, ziti, penne, etc.) and place them on the skeletons. They can figure out how to arrange the pieces on the exact spots to make the dinosaur skeletons 3 dimensional. You can use glue to paste these down.

Suncatchers (Template)

For this activity, you’ll trace the dinosaur template on black cardstock. Then, cut it out leaving a border with emptiness in the middle. Place clear contact paper underneath with sticky side facing up. Lay the black outline on top. Have students place colored tissue paper pieces all around. Add contact paper to the top to close it off. Hang up in a window for display.

Paper Handprint Dinosaur (Template)

Start by making your dinosaurs body by tracing the student’s hand onto any color construction paper or cardstock. Cut out other body parts from the templates, arranging like the photo, and paste them together. You can have students decorate them if they’d like.

Paint Resist Dinosaur Art (Printable)

Cut out the dinosaur templates and paste or tape them onto a canvas or cardstock. Have student paint all over the background and even onto the template that’s pasted down. When they are finished, peel up the dinosaur template and you have an awesome art creation.

Paper Plate Dinosaur Craft

Cut a paper plate in half and have student paint it ,along with two clothespins. Cut out the rest of the body pieces from construction paper. Glue those pieces on in the correct arrangement and add eyes, nose, and mouth to complete this adorable dinosaur plate craft.

Handprint Craft

Make this adorable handprint craft using green paint on your child’s hand. Place it upside down on a paper and then have them (or you) paint the head and neck. Write D is for Dinosaur to complete the craft.

D is for Dinosaur Craft (Printable)

 This easy craft uses a template that students can color and cut out each piece. Paste them together to form the green D for Dinosaur at the top.

Worksheet packet (printable)

Over 37 pages of dinosaur activities for improving all skills, not just literacy. Worksheets include fine motor practice, matching, math, puzzles, tracing, coloring, and so much more.

Emergent Reader (Printable)

This book has students putting together pages of dinosaurs of different colors. They can color each dinosaur to match the color page. Kids easily learn the repetitive text of this easy reader, so even non-readers can follow along and begin to identify some of the words.

Beginning Letter Sound Match (Printable)

Cut out the letter topper eggs along with the dinosaur picture cards. Each dinosaur egg has an image on the bottom. Students will match the letter to the beginning letter sound of that picture.

Rhyme Time Match (Printable)

Cut out the images and then cut along the zig zag lines. Have students match the picture to another picture that rhymes with it.

Sight Word Game (Printable)

This is an EDITABLE game which makes it that much better! Simply type your student’s current word list in and it generates the game for you. Have students roll a dice and move that number of spaces. Use any manipulative (lego, coin, etc) as a moving piece. Whichever word they land on, they must say that word. There is also a record sheet if you student is at the level of writing words, have them spell and write that word on their sheet.

Dinosaurs Word Strips

These word cards are great for emerging readers & spellers. You can place them in a pocket chart for easy display or simply paste them to the wall. Then students can copy the word when they need it. Seeing the words repetitively helps to learn sight words faster. The strips also have the option for copying the word right underneath for handwriting practice.

Word Families (Printable)

Word families are a great way to introduce CVC and rhyming words. This adorable center helps students recognize different word families for each vowel and sort the pictures based on their ending sounds. After cutting and seperating the images, have students match the picture egg cards to the dinosaur word family (ending) card.

Bossy R Sort (Printable)

Bossy R words can be tricky because they often make a very similar sound and it is hard to identify what vowel is in the word. Cut apart the dinosaur cards and set them out. Then cut out the dinosaur eggs. Sort the eggs to the right dinosaur. Students could put the eggs next to, below or even on top of the dinosaur cards.

Trace and Find Letters (Printable)

These preschool letter worksheets include a place to practice tracing lower case letters as well as a dinosaur bone filled with letters to dab with a dot marker or just cross out with a crayon.

Roll & Cover Sight Words (Printable)

This dinosaur sight word game works on visual discrimination as they identify and read sight words. They will simply pick out a word from their pile of words and cover it on their sheet with any manipulative (dinosaur, pom pom, etc.)

“Oh My, Oh My, Oh Dinosaur: A Book of Opposites” by Sandra Boynton

 Sunbathing dinosaurs and artistic dinosaurs, dancing dinosaurs and volleyball-playing dinosaurs make learning opposites fun!

“My Encyclopedia of Important Dinosaurs” by DK

Bursting with up-to-date facts & discoveries, this exciting kid’s encyclopedia is written for younger kids & includes an in-depth exploration of the triassic, jurassic, & cretaceous periods and how fossils are made, to profiles of popular dinosaurs such as T-rex & Triceratops, and unfamiliar ones as well.

“How to Catch a Dinosaur” by Adam Wallace

Join these kids as they try to wrangle a dinosaur in time for the school science fair and prove they’re still around! Students will roar with laughter in this dinosaur picture book that blends STEAM concepts with hilarity and clever chaos.

“Ten Little Dinosaurs” by Mike Brownlow

Ten Little Dinosaurs set off in search of adventure … But what will the Ten Little Dinosaurs do when they meet a grumpy triceratops? And a stomping diplodocus? And a HUNGRY T-REX? Part traditional counting rhyme book and part fun-filled story, Ten Little Dinosaurs is perfect for spotting and counting the details on each page.

“Dinosaurumpus” by Tony Mitton

Where can you find a Deinosuchus that pirouettes on its tail & a T. rex that bounds gracefully through the air? In DINOSAURUMPUS!, where dinosaurs run, boom, shake, & shudder their way to the “sludgy old swamp” and rock the night away. By the time the romp is over, and the dinosaurs are fast asleep, kids won’t be able to shake that jumping, thumping Dinosaurumpus beat!

“How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight” by Jane Yolen

A playful peek into the homes of dinosaur babies and their parents at bedtime! How do dinosaurs say good night?

“How Do Dinosaurs Say I’m Mad” by Jane Yolen

Romp and stomp! Roar and slam! Almost everyone gets angry. But how can young dinosaurs also learn to calm down, take a time out, & behave? This is a fun and engaging book sure to help children handle anger & frustration. Readers will laugh at the antics of an Afrovenator’s tantrum and a storming Pachyrhinosaurus.

“No No Dinos Peak & Counting Book” by Kate Stone

No, No Dinos! is a 6-spread, pull and peek board book with counting and features fun text. By pulling up on the page, each Dino’s mouth opens and reveals what dinosaurs shouldn’t eat.

“The Littlest Dinosaurs Big Adventure” by Michael Foreman

When the littlest dinosaur goes out exploring, he only wants to play leapfrog and chase butterflies. But when he gets lost in the dark woods, all he can think about is getting home. Being courageous is difficult, but when he finds a small pterodactyl also lost in the woods, the littlest dinosaur finds that he is brave enough to get them home safely.

“Rawr” by Todd Doodler

Rex is bigger than all the kids in class, and his teacher! His gym clothes don’t fit. His desk is too small. And he is horrible at playing hide-and-seek. But that doesn’t get Rex down! Instead he teaches everyone exactly why being different is great in this hilariously heartwarming story about making friends, getting along, & learning to say RAWR!

Build a Dinosaur Puzzle (Printable)

Cut out each separate piece of dinosaur. Have students arrange the dinosaur on its corresponding mat. There is a picture of what the complete dinosaur should look like at the top.

Dinosaur Fossil Matching (Printable)

This can be used as a matching game, or you can use them to make dinosaur x-rays. Match the cards up with the regular dinosaur on the front and the skeleton on the back and hold them up to a bright window.

You will be able to see the skeleton right through and it will look like an x-ray. It’s a cool way so show kids what the dinosaur bones look like!

Shape Match (Printable)

This activity simply allows students to match identical shapes that are hidden in a dinosaur or as a fossil. Print the worksheets and cut out images for child to use.

Dinosaur Shape Creation (Printable)

Use shape blocks to create a dinosaur. Print out the free printables with different dinosaur heads and body parts, use construction paper for the other pieces and put it all together for different Dinos.

Dinosaur I Spy (Printable)

Students will find how many dinosaurs are hidden on this page by circling each picture from the options below. You can also use this as a counting activity where students can count each dinosaur image they see.

“How to Catch a Dinosaur” by Adam Wallace

These dinosaur fossil dig cards are great fun! Hide them in a sensory bin and have your toddler dig them out. Try to find all of them and mark them off on the fossil dig sheet.

Memory Matching Game

This is a DIY memory game that is easy to make if you have stamps. Cut paper or cardboard into squares. Use a dinosaur stamp to stamp 1 dinosaur on 2 pieces of paper. Then have students play a memory match game where they start the cards face down & pick up 2 at a time until they make a match. Stamps can also be made with cookie cutters & paint.

Shape Match (Printable)

Teach shapes and colors with this fun themed activity. Cut to size or have students do some of the cutting on the line. Have them match each shape to its corresponding card.

Maze and I Spy Worksheets (Printable)

Mazes are a great visual perceptual activity to do. Their eyes will track the lines as they navigate the dino to his plant. This packet comes with a few other activities as well.

Dinosaur Bingo (Printable)

Bingo is a fun activity for students to play that help them learn visual scanning, letter identification, and matching. Use these printable Bingo boards and cut out the calling cards. Have students match the dinosaurs that you pull out to their board and put a marker on it. First one to get 5 in a row wins.

Fossil Counting Puzzles (Printable)

These three-part puzzles include the numbers 1-10. They have a fossil with dinosaur footprints on one piece, the same number of footprints on the second piece (not on a fossil) and the number on the third piece. They help kids practice their counting skills & number recognition.

Use Legos or Counting Cubes to Measure Dinosaurs 

Give students various-sized dinosaurs and have theme do non-standardized measurements to determine their length. For example, the T-Rex is 12 cubes long, but the stegosaurus is 9 cubes long.

Dino Puzzle (Printable)

There are several of these puzzles to print and cut on the lines. Have students match them up and put the dinosaur together by getting the numbers in the right order.

Ten Little Dinosaurs Counting Props (printable)

This activity follows along with the book Ten Little Dinosaurs. Print out the images and paste them on popsicle sticks. Have the students count each dinosaur stick before reading the book. When it’s over, have them count backwards as you take away each dinosaur. You can also do this as you read the story.

Measure and Compare Sizes (Printable)

Use these printables to categorize dinosaurs by size – short or long/tall and lightest to heaviest. Also included are measurement cards where students can measure the length of the dinosaur using linking blocks and write the number of cubes.

Ten Little Dinosaurs Counting (Printable)

This is a counting song with lyrics and props to go along with it. Print out the song sheets and dinosaur images. Paste the images to a popsicle stick. Have students sing the song and hold up the correct number of dinosaurs with it.

Dinosaur Counting Puzzle (Printable)

Simply cut out the numbered dinosaur images and cut on the zig zag line. Have students match up the number of dinosaur spikes to the corresponding number.

Dinosaur Addition (Printable)

Use these sheets to have students practice counting dinosaurs. Spin a paperclip on the spinner and whichever number it lands on, place that amount of dinosaurs on the page. Then have them write or use the dinosaurs to show an addition sentence to get to that total number.

Counting Clip Cards (Printable)

Works on counting skills, number identification, and fine motor skills. Have student place a clothespin, dotsticker, or dot marker on the correct number after counting. The pinching of a clothespin also works on finger strengthening for fine motor skills.

Counting Dice Game (Printable)

Use this game board to practice counting with your students. Simply print out, roll a dice, and have student move their piece that amount of spaces.

Dinosaur Addition Cards (Printable)

Cut out these simple addition cards and have students count the different dinosaurs and write the addition equation. Each group of dinosaurs has a different color so they won’t have trouble distinguishing which group they are in.

Counting Egg Mats (Printable)

Use these mats to have students counting. Have them roll up small pieces of play dough to make dinosaur eggs. Then write a number on the top and they will place the play doh eggs in the nest. Then they can fill in the 10 frame below with how many

Addition Mats (Printable)

Write numbers in the circles to create an addition problem (with a total less than 20). Using dinosaur pieces, have student fill in the tens frame to show and solve the equation. Count how many dinosaurs are on the tens frames and write the solution in the equation

Roll and Cover Number Recognition (Printable)

Have students roll a dice to land on a number. You can also just cut up pieces of paper and write a number on them (if you don’t have dice) and have them pick from the pile. Have student identify the number on this dinosaur number mat and cover it with any manipulative.

Number Play Doh Mats (Printable)

Play doh mats help students learn and identify numbers, count, and develop fine motor control as they place the playdoh on the number and also put the correct number of dinosaurs.

Erupting Dinosaur Extinction Slime

This is a fizzing and foaming reaction that ends in a slime you can play with! You’ll need typical slime ingredients: glue, contact solution, baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring. When you place the dinosaurs around the jar of foaming slime, it appears to be a volcano that will make the dinosaurs extinct all around it!

Salt Crystal Dinosaur

To create your own salt crystal dinosaur, dissolve a large quantity of common table salt in boiling water, submerge a dinosaur-shaped object or sponge cutout into the solution, and leave it undisturbed for several days. Over time, crystals will form on the dinosaur’s surface as the water evaporates, leaving behind the salt in crystalline form. This is due to the process of supersaturation and evaporation, which results in the formation of salt crystals.

Fizzy Dino Eggs

Start by creating a mixture using baking soda & water until it’s a crumbly texture – not too wet. Add food coloring to make different colors if you choose. Pack the mixture around small plastic Dinos. Use plastic wrap to hold the shape and stick in the freezer for a few hours. When frozen, place them in a bowl and let students use a dropper to squirt white vinegar on them. You’ll see the outer shell fizz as it melts away.

Volcano Eruption

All you need is baking soda, vinegar, dish soap, and red food coloring for that fiery lava effect. Pack a mound of baking soda. Then mix together vinegar, soap and red food coloring, and pour it on top to watch the bubbly lava flow! Be sure to use a tray to contain the overflow. You can also build a paper mache volcano for added realism- craft a volcano using paper mache around a small bowl to hold the baking soda.

Hatching Dino Toys

Grab some water balloons, small dinosaur toys and water. Stuff a small dino toy into a water balloon, then put a little water in, and toss in the freezer. Once frozen, have students watch as the ice melts and the dinos hatch out their egg (Balloon).

Play Doh Mats (Printable)

Use play doh for a tactile experience as students create the dinosaur images with play doh. They will twist, roll, push, and cut play doh pieces to form each dinosaur.

Dino Dough

This is a simple, 3 ingredient recipe to create your own dinosaur dough for littles to have their dinosaur figurines play in. Of course you can opt to simply use brown play dough if you don’t want to make your own, but part of the fun of this activity is making their own dough! It consists of 1 cup hair conditioner, 2.5 cups corn starch, & a few drops of brown food coloring.

Sensory Bin with Cloud Dough

As opposed to the above play doh material above, this sensory bin is made with a crumbly dough with flour-like consistency.  Use a combination of flour and vegetable oil to make this cloud dough consistency. Add in your dinos for kids to play.

Make Salt Dough Fossils

Salt dough can be made using flour, salt, & warm water. Have students squeeze and mix the mixture until a dough forms. Form it into a ball and then flatten. Have students place plastic dinos into the dough before it hardens. Use the whoel shape of the dinosaur or just the footprints. Then, bake these in the oven at 250 degrees for 1-2 hours.

Sensory Bottle Letter Find (Printable)

Make a sensory bottle for your students to shake around as they search for a missing letter. Add craft sand to a water bottle and write each letter of the alphabet on a mini egg. Add dinosaur figures and the eggs into a water bottle. Have students shake around the bottle to find each letter and then mark it off on the recording sheet.

Create a Dino World

Have students create a miniature dino world with play dough. Set up the scene on a tray with green and blue play dough, Dino figurines, pebbles, sticks, and more. Have students play with the dinosaurs as if they were real – stomping around the land and sea. Observe their footprints and how they get around.

Fossil Dig Like Paleontologists

Set up a mini archaeological dig site in your backyard or at the playground. Provide tools like small brushes, spoons, and shovels. Bury plastic (or paper) dinosaur skeletons or bones in sand, dirt, or a sensory bin filled with crushed up cereal, bird seed, or sand. Let kids carefully excavate the buried treasures just like real paleontologists!

Make a Life-Size Dinosaur

Have students create a life-sized dinosaur out of cardboard tiolet paper and paper towel rolls. You can use a picture of a dinosaur skeleton for them to copy so they have an easier time visualizing the body parts.

Stomp like Dinosaurs with Big Feet

Have your students dress up as dinosaurs with these big dino feet made out of tissue boxes! This idea is so simple and uses triangles cut out from a sponge pasted to a tissue box. So easy and the kids will love it!

Set Up a Paleontologist Station

Have students pretend to be paleontologists as they use their tools to dig for fossils. Include mini flashlights, tape measures, magnifying glasses, plastic, dinosaurs, binoculars, paintbrushes, explorer’s helmets, sand, sensory table or sensory tubs, rocks, shells, etc.

Save the Dinosaurs

Kids will have a blast working with their little fingers in this activity. Simply use painters tape to tape dinosaurs to a table. Have students peel the tape off using pincer grasp to rescue the dinos from being tied down.

Dot Sheets (Printable)

Use dot markers or dot stickers to complete these activity sheets and fill in each circle with a color. This is great for hand eye coordination as well as fine motor skills, as younger students have to stay within the dots.

Coloring Pages (Printable)

Have students simply color in the provided coloring sheets of different types of dinosaurs. Choose between crayons, markers, and more.

Color By Number (Printable)

Color by number sheets are so fun & engaging for young students. It gets them working on strengthening their fine motor muscles of theiir hands while also learning to identify numbers.

Pick and Color (Printable)

Have student pick a letter from the pile of dinosaur letters. Identify the same letter on the mat and student will color in that dinosaur.

Dinosaur Stomp with Dinosaur Feet

Create these dinosaur feet from cardboard and have students cut them out and paint them as they wish. Tell them to stomp around like dinosaurs as a great sensory or movement break.

Dinosaur Stomp Song

This song is always a huge hit with young kids. Your students will love to stomp like dinosaurs around the classroom to get their energy out.

Dinosaur Footprints

Create a dinosaur footprint path and transform your child’s human footsteps into Tyrannosaurus rex trackways by painting and imprinting cardboard dinosaur feet.

Dino Spin Gross Motor Activity (Printable)

Print on thick card stock to ensure the arrow spins using a brass fastener. One player hides the dinosaur figures around the room. The first player spins the arrow and reads the action. He or she then races off to find one of the hidden dinosaurs. When she finds a dinosaur, she races back and performs the action.

Dinosaur Movement Games

Try these for a take on the classic games:

T-Rex, T-Rex, Triceratops (Duck, Duck, Goose)

Stegosaurus Says (Simon Says)

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send (Name of Dinosaur Right Over) Give kids different dinosaur names

Mirror Image: With partners, mirror or copy dinosaur moves of other partner

One Little, Two Little Dinosaurs by Super Simple Songs on YouTube

“Dinosaur, Dinosaur” to the tune of:  “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear“

Dinosaur, dinosaur, stomps around.

Dinosaur, dinosaur, shakes the ground.

Dinosaur, dinosaur, fill us with fear.

Dinosaur, dinosaur, we wish you were here.

“I’d Like to Be a Dinosaur” to the tune of: “Mary had a Little Lamb”

I’d like to be a dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur.

And if I was a dinosaur, I would be a _________.

(Each child has a turn naming which dinosaur he would like to be)

“Do You Know this Dinosaur” to the tune of: “Muffin Man”

Oh, do you know the stegosaurus? The stegosaurus, the stegosaurus?

Oh, do you know the stegosaurus? He had plates upon his back.

More verses:

Apatosaurus…he has a very long neck. Tyrannosaurus rex…he was very fierce.

Triceratops…. he has three big horns.

“Dinos Go Marching” to the tune of: “The Ants go Marching”

The dinos go marching one by one, hurrah, hoorah

The dinos go marching one by one, hurrah, hoorah

The dinos go marching one by one, the little one stopped to stand in the sun,

And they all go marching round and round and up and down.

More verses:

Two-to admire the view. Three-eat from a tree. Four-to give a roar

“Great Big Dinos” to the tune of: “Oh My Darling Clementine”

“Great Big Dinos” to the tune of: “Oh My Darling Clementine”

Great big dinos, great big dinos, Lived Oh so long ago

Some liked land and some liked water, Some flew in the air.

Great big dinos, great big dinos, Lived Oh so long ago

Some had horns and some had spikes, Some had wings like birds and bats.

Great big dinos, great big dinos, Lived Oh so long ago

Some ate plants and some ate meat, But now they don’t live here no more

“One Dinosaur” to the tune of: ” 5 Little Ducks”

“One Dinosaur” to the tune of: ” 5 Little Ducks”

One dinosaur went out to play, On a bright and sunny day

He had such ENORMOUS fun. That he called another dinosaur to come.

(Call loud) DI-NO-SAUR! (Chant while patting hands on lap) Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

Then repeat for 2, 3 dinosaurs, etc.

“Did You Ever See a Dinosaur” to the tune of: “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”

Did you ever see my dinosaur, my dinosaur, my dinosaur?

Did you ever see the dinosaur I have for my pet?

He hides in my bedroom. He wears my pajamas.

If you’ve never seen my dinosaur, you’d like to I bet!

“We are the Dinosaurs” by the Laurie Berkner Band on YouTube

“Strongest Dinosaur” by Fun for Kids TV on YouTube

Discuss Dinosaurs and Simple Facts About Them

• when they lived and now they’re extinct

• characteristics of dinosaurs

• herbivores vs. carnivores

• ways different dinosaurs move

• ways dinosaurs defend themselves from predators

• compare and contrast dinosaurs and other animals

• which dinosaurs were predators

• fossils

• volcanoes and lava

Make an “All About Dinosaurs” Anchor Chart

Graph Your Students Favorite Dinosaur or Which One They Would Like to Be

Dinosaur Stomp Song – This song is always a huge hit with young kids. Your students will love to stomp like dinosaurs around the classroom to get their energy out.

Discuss Paleontologists and What They Do

• What tools they use

• Create an anchor chart about the job of a paleontologist

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I hope you enjoy these dinosaur activities for preschoolers, with so many to choose from there is truly something for everyone! Have fun playing to learn with your budding little paleontologist and if you try any of the above activities let me know in the comments below!