After our long weeks with the Dinosaur unit, mommy was so tired and bored of the same but the little Pinky was not on the same path. She was still hungry for more learning about these amazing creatures. Therefore, I came with my last resources, thanks to Pinterest of course: Dinosaurs made with pine cleaners. I found them here. The post is in Spanish but it has Google translation application available. As for the T-rex and Pteranodon, I just followed the same rolling principle and my imagination. Sorry about that~!  My Apatosaurus wasn’t as cute as the one in the tutorial but I still think it is cute.

 

Aren’t they cute????

 

Pinky loved it!. She grabbed them as soon as I finished the assembly.  Unfortunately,  they didn’t last for so long in Pinky’s hands.

At least, I can reuse the pine cleaners and she had a fun time pretending different voices, roles, situations and sensorial stimulation while playing with them.

Awww! We love Dinosaurs…..they are really fun!

Found it on Pinterest…and we DID IT!!!

What else did you find at Pinterest and you had fun doing it???

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Oh…..she really LOVES Dinosaurs!!!!

Everything started with a Flubber invasion……and the extermination of those poor little dinosaurs on the table. Then, it happened: The Dino mania!!!

Ok, this sounds crazy!

A few weeks ago, Pinky had a flubber activity at her Preschool. I was in shock when a saw that pink stuff on the table. Yes, it was my first time, too seeing that thing. Her teacher, very kindly, gave me the recipe that same day and a week later we were making our own Flubber. Playing, squishing, cutting, laughing and been two kids (hey, it was fun!!!), we starting to pretend that there was a Flubber explosion, so we were needing some volunteers for the job (aka Dinoes).

After that amazing day, Pinky got more into Dinosaurs and here’s what we did in our Spring week vacation:

Sensorial

Matching-memory game

Matching cards-objects

Grouping dinoes

Science

Math

Straight line.

 

Semi-Circle.

DIY- Patterning with stickers

Follow the pattern by type of dinosaur.

Follow the pattern by color.

 

Follow the pattern by color and type of dino.

Just continue the pattern.

Counting dinosaurs.

Art-Sensorial

DIY Dinosaur fossils!

Pasta Art

DIY Dino stamps- Macy’s catalog recycled

Practical life: Dino bath

Sensorial???

Mystery bag: matching the dino just by touching.

Fine-motor and story telling

Field trip: Science Museum

Dinosaurs are really fun!!!

As you can see, there are plenty of hands downs activities to do with them and the best part is that I didn’t have to print, cut and laminate anything!

It looks a lot but I didn’t have to plan to much since one activity led to the other one. Don’t you like when this happens?

Check Living Montessori Now for lots of more dino fun! And my Dino Pinterest board.

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