Letter of the Week A-Z Series: D is for Dinosaur

Kids will have fun with dinosaurs as they learn the letter D, play in a dinosaur dig sensory bin and make a D is for dinosaur craft!

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Dinosaurs are always a hit with kids and can be enjoyed any time of year! Today we have our weekly letter of the week sight words printable, letter D craft, and two dinosaur activities that your kids are sure to LOVE. In all, there are 3 free printables in this post because I love sharing with you and your kids. 

Check out all our Dinosaur Favorite Activities Here including dino eggs, dino alphabet activity, and a dino sticky wall… and get crafty with a paper plate dinosaur and pumpkin dinosaur craft.

Find all our Letter of the Week A-Z Series here .

Letter D Sight Words
Free Printable: Letter D Sight Words 

Ideas for printable:

• Place word and matching picture out when doing an activity that matches the word
• Color the cards
• Read the word together and match the word with the picture
• Point and name the letters on the card
• Write the letter of the week on each card
• Write the word on each card

D is for Dinosaur Activities

Suggested Books: How Do Dinosaurs…a whole series of cute books by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague

Suggested Song: Dinosaur Stomp You Tube video by Mother Goose Club Songs for Children
The kiddos couldn’t get enough of this song. We danced, crawled, and stomped around the house getting some fun gross motor playtime in 🙂

D is for Dinosaur Craft

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Craft

Objectives: Letter D recognition, creativity, fine motor skills

Supplies

• Craft paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Googly eyes (optional)
• Markers or dot markers (optional)

Directions:

1.  Use the dinosaur pattern to cut out your D for dinosaur pieces. I printed the pattern directly on our craft paper.

2.  Line up all the pieces and glue them together. Glue the letter D together first, then add the dinosaur pieces. The circle goes at the top of the D for the dinosaur’s head and the triangles go along the curve of the D.

3.  Decorate your dinosaur. We used our dot pens to make a Dotted Dinosaur so we could use another D word during our craft.

Dinosaur Dig Sensory Bin

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Activity

Supplies

• Clay (Clay recipe found here)
• Rice/Flour/Dirt/Sand-something to bury dinosaur bones in
• Sensory bin
• Sensory play tools to dig out dinosaur bones

Directions

1.  Cut out the dinosaur cards and names. I glued our cards to old file folders and laminated them for reinforcement.

2.  Use clay to make dinosaur bones. I used our clay recipe and baked them at 350 degrees for 10 minutes to harden them because I procrastinated and didn’t get them made the day before. They turned a little brown when I baked them, but still worked fine. I used a permanent marker to draw the shape on the matching dinosaur card on each bone in case they became all mixed up.  

 3.  Hide the bones in your sensory bin with the matching dinosaur card and let the child find the bones. I used a dry-erase marker to write the number of bones each dinosaur had so we knew once all the bones had been found.

4.  Place the dinosaur bones on the card like a puzzle. 

Dinosaur Name & Shape Match 

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Activity

Objectives: Shapes, Dinosaurs, Matching

Supplies

• Shapes-Diamond, Triangle, Star, Circle, Heart (We used foam shapes I found at Target, but toys around the house or paper shapes would work great)

Directions

1.  Cut out the dinosaur cards and names. I glued our cards to old file folders and laminated them for reinforcement. Give each child one of each shape.

2.  Find the shape on the dinosaur card, name the shape, and ask child to hold up their matching shape.

3.  Find the dinosaur name that has the matching shape from step 2 and place the name next to the dinosaur card. 

Before we started the activity I had everything laid out and Ms, Tiger matched the words with the dinosaur cards all by herself. I was so impressed and was glad to see the printable facilitated self-guided learning. You could lay out your supplies and watch your preschooler explore naturally too.  

More Dinosaur Ideas:

Dinosaur Dig Bin by Left Brain Craft Brain

Fun Dinosaur Small World Play Activity by Artsy Momma

Paper Plate Dinosaurs  by I Heart Crafty Things

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Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Craft

 

Objectives: Letter D recognition, creativity, fine motor skills

 

 

Age Group: Preschool

 

 

Supplies:

 

Craft paper

Scissors

Glue

Googly eyes (optional)

Markers or dot markers (optional)

 

Directions:

1.  Use the dinosaur pattern to cut out your D for dinosaur pieces. I printed the pattern directly on our craft paper.

 

 

 

2.  Line up all the pieces and glue them together. Glue the letter D together first, then add the dinosaur pieces. The circle goes at the top of the D for the dinosaur’s head and the triangles go along the curve of the D.

3.  Decorate your dinosaur. We used our dot pens to make a Dotted Dinosaur so we could use another D word during our craft.

 

Ms. Tiger wanted to draw the eyes on her dinosaur. She included eyebrows and beautiful long eyelashes.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Dinosaur Dig A fun sensory and science activity to learn about dinosaurs. (A little prep work needed)

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Activity

 

Objectives: Sensory Play, fine motor skills, counting, visual perception

 

Age Group: Preschool/ Tot school

 

Supplies:

Clay (Clay recipe found here)

Rice/Flour/Dirt/Sand-something to bury dinosaur bones in

Sensory bin

Sensory play tools to dig out dinosaur bones

 

Directions:

 

1.  Cut out the dinosaur cards and names. I glued our cards to old file folders and laminated them for reinforcement.

 

 

 

2.  Use clay to make dinosaur bones. I used our clay recipe and baked them at 350 degrees for 10 minutes to harden them because I procrastinated and didn’t get them made the day before. They turned a little brown when I baked them, but still worked fine. I used a permanent marker to draw the shape on the matching dinosaur card on each bone in case they became all mixed up.  

 

 

 

 

 3.  Hide the bones in your sensory bin with the matching dinosaur card and let child find the bones. I used a dry erase marker to write the number of bones each dinosaur had so we knew once all the bones had been found.

 

“Dinosaur!” These two had so much fun digging up dinosaur bones.

 

 

 

4.  Place the dinosaur bones on the card like a puzzle. 

Ms. Tiger was able to find the right spot for her dinosaur bones. Mr. Tickles made a pile of bones and then I helped him put his dinosaur together once all the pieces were found.

 

Dinosaur Name & Shape Match 

Learn the names of dinosaurs and shapes with this fun matching game.

 

 

 

 

 

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Activity

 

Objectives: Shapes, Dinosaurs, Matching

 

Age Group: Preschool/Tot School

 

Supplies:

Shapes-Diamond, Triangle, Star, Circle, Heart (We used foam shapes I found at Target, but toys around the house or paper shapes would work great)

 

Directions:

1.  Cut out the dinosaur cards and names. I glued our cards to old file folders and laminated them for reinforcement. Give each child one of each shape.

 

2.  Find the shape on the dinosaur card, name the shape, and ask child to hold up their matching shape.

Once the kids found the right shape they held them up to our dinosaur board.

3.  Find the dinosaur name that has the matching shape from step 2 and place the name next to the dinosaur card. 

 

Before we started the activity I had everything laid out and Ms, Tiger matched the words with the dinosaur cards all by herself. I was so impressed and was glad to see the printable facilitated self guided learning. You could lay out your supplies and watch your preschooler explore naturally too.  

 

 

 

More Dinosaur Ideas:

Dinosaur Dig Bin by Left Brain Craft Brain

Fun Dinosaur Small World Play Activity by Artsy Momma

Paper Plate Dinosaurs  by I Heart Crafty Things

 

Follow board Learn with Kids Activities:
Follow A Little Pinch of Perfect’s board Learn With Kids Activities on Pinterest.

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Craft

 

Objectives: Letter D recognition, creativity, fine motor skills

 

 

Age Group: Preschool

 

 

Supplies:

 

Craft paper

Scissors

Glue

Googly eyes (optional)

Markers or dot markers (optional)

 

Directions:

1.  Use the dinosaur pattern to cut out your D for dinosaur pieces. I printed the pattern directly on our craft paper.

 

 

 

2.  Line up all the pieces and glue them together. Glue the letter D together first, then add the dinosaur pieces. The circle goes at the top of the D for the dinosaur’s head and the triangles go along the curve of the D.

3.  Decorate your dinosaur. We used our dot pens to make a Dotted Dinosaur so we could use another D word during our craft.

 

Ms. Tiger wanted to draw the eyes on her dinosaur. She included eyebrows and beautiful long eyelashes.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Dinosaur Dig A fun sensory and science activity to learn about dinosaurs. (A little prep work needed)

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Activity

 

Objectives: Sensory Play, fine motor skills, counting, visual perception

 

Age Group: Preschool/ Tot school

 

Supplies:

Clay (Clay recipe found here)

Rice/Flour/Dirt/Sand-something to bury dinosaur bones in

Sensory bin

Sensory play tools to dig out dinosaur bones

 

Directions:

 

1.  Cut out the dinosaur cards and names. I glued our cards to old file folders and laminated them for reinforcement.

 

 

 

2.  Use clay to make dinosaur bones. I used our clay recipe and baked them at 350 degrees for 10 minutes to harden them because I procrastinated and didn’t get them made the day before. They turned a little brown when I baked them, but still worked fine. I used a permanent marker to draw the shape on the matching dinosaur card on each bone in case they became all mixed up.  

 

 

 

 

 3.  Hide the bones in your sensory bin with the matching dinosaur card and let child find the bones. I used a dry erase marker to write the number of bones each dinosaur had so we knew once all the bones had been found.

 

“Dinosaur!” These two had so much fun digging up dinosaur bones.

 

 

 

4.  Place the dinosaur bones on the card like a puzzle. 

Ms. Tiger was able to find the right spot for her dinosaur bones. Mr. Tickles made a pile of bones and then I helped him put his dinosaur together once all the pieces were found.

 

Dinosaur Name & Shape Match 

Learn the names of dinosaurs and shapes with this fun matching game.

 

 

 

 

 

Free Printable: D is for Dinosaur Activity

 

Objectives: Shapes, Dinosaurs, Matching

 

Age Group: Preschool/Tot School

 

Supplies:

Shapes-Diamond, Triangle, Star, Circle, Heart (We used foam shapes I found at Target, but toys around the house or paper shapes would work great)

 

Directions:

1.  Cut out the dinosaur cards and names. I glued our cards to old file folders and laminated them for reinforcement. Give each child one of each shape.

 

2.  Find the shape on the dinosaur card, name the shape, and ask child to hold up their matching shape.

Once the kids found the right shape they held them up to our dinosaur board.

3.  Find the dinosaur name that has the matching shape from step 2 and place the name next to the dinosaur card. 

 

Before we started the activity I had everything laid out and Ms, Tiger matched the words with the dinosaur cards all by herself. I was so impressed and was glad to see the printable facilitated self guided learning. You could lay out your supplies and watch your preschooler explore naturally too.  

 

 

 

More Dinosaur Ideas:

Dinosaur Dig Bin by Left Brain Craft Brain

Fun Dinosaur Small World Play Activity by Artsy Momma

Paper Plate Dinosaurs  by I Heart Crafty Things

 

Follow board Learn with Kids Activities:
Follow A Little Pinch of Perfect’s board Learn With Kids Activities on Pinterest.