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Purpose
Purpose
The goal of this second activity is to foster relationship skills between children and their parents. In this activity, children and parents will read about silly dinosaurs, practice counting skills, and create dinosaur footprints.
Image: black dinosaur silhouettes.
Materials Needed
Materials Needed
Book Reading:
Ten Little Dinosaurs by Pattie L. Schnetzler - Find the book on Amazon here
Questions relating to the book can be found below
Created song to accompany book
Recording of song can be found here (This recording includes a verse with no words and a verse singing one page of book. Use this melody to sing the rest of the book or create something silly together).
Drum or percussion instrument/object
Dinosaur "Footprints":
Footprint Cutouts
Cardboard
Hole punch for cardboard
Paint & paintbrushes
Yarn/String
Scissors
Image: book cover of Ten Little Dinosaurs by Pattie L. Schnetzler (green dinosaur with green eyes looking outside of a cracked egg).
Outline
Outline
Dinosaur Footprints
Gather required materials
Choose a footprint shape
Make copies as needed and cut stencil
Using stencil, trace shape unto cardboard
Cut desired number of "footprints"
Paint "footprints" desired color
Allow to dry
Once dry, punch holes on either side of foot and thread string/yarn through
Knot at top (child should be able to hold string on either side and "walk" with dinosaur feet
Ten Little Dinosaurs Book
Gather book and desired percussive instrument(s)/object(s)
Book can be read with or without song
On each page, ask child to play instrument or object ten, nine, eight, etc. number of times to match corresponding number of dinosaurs on each page.
Image: set of colorful dinosaurs standing in different rows and facing different directions.
Image: black dinosaur footprints on a gray background.
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