Reggio dinosaur provocations

Dinosaur Week on our Mother Hen’s Summer Survival Guide. So many simple and fun ways for the kids to have fun while learning! We’ve got games, activities, crafts, snacks and printables.

Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.

Have a whole pile of squishy, sensory fun, making and playing with dinosaurs in sticky mud! With a super simple recipe, you can whip up this sensory experience in just a couple of minutes. One of the awesome things about being a blogger is that over the years you can develop fabulous friendships with other bloggers from all around the world. It is pretty inspiring to have a bunch of people that you can call your friends, that are among some of the most creative, kind and clever people you…

The kids decided to investgate dinosaurs next. I set out a couple areas for them to explore while we finished up our clay inquiry. I create...

The kids decided to investgate dinosaurs next. I set out a couple areas for them to explore while we finished up our clay inquiry. I created an area for them to dig for fossils. During Thinking, Learning and Discovering Time they started exploring. They wanted to identify some of the fossils and dinosaurs that were set out. Because of their love for art, I set up the painting area for them to use art to show what they noticed about dinosaurs and their skeletons. I also set up an area for…

What colour were dinosaurs? What did their skin look like? Those are a couple of questions that were asked today around the art table. We used various sized bubble wrap to give the effect of skin. The children loved painting on it, as well as popping the occasional bubble. We kept adding new colours because we don't know what the true colours are of dinosaurs. Then we pressed the paper on top to make a print. And voila we created our own dinosaur. What to name it? Hmmm? There's the Daddy…

Years ago, we first made this dinosaur out of toilet paper and I wanted to share it again today... When the kids are home for the summer, I like to try to do fun activities… out of the ordinary activities. They do their daily reading, writing, and math, but we really have fun when

Dinosaur Nests: Exploring how Dinosaurs raised and cared for their babies with a fun and messy sensory science activity!