This is a guest post for Learn with Play at Home written by the lovely Kate from The Craft Train. For more of their awesome ideas, be sure to check out their site. Enjoy, Debs :)
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Paper Plate-a-sauruses with templates
Here’s
an activity for all the dinosaur-loving kids out there. These paper
plate-a-sauruses are based on the real species and all feature a colourful
paper plate body with a paper cut-out head, legs and tail.
They can help kids
learn the real names of the dinosaurs and also have a fun, messy art and craft
element to them.
My friend’s 5 year old boy tested this idea out for me and
absolutely LOVED the dinosaurs he made (a T-rex and a Stegosaurus), and
suggested next time we could make a Pterodactyl and a Diplodocus.
I’ve gone one
better and created a Triceratops as well, so you have 5 dinosaur templates to
choose from that you can make with your kids. My girls had fun making these
too.
