Digging Up Dinos!

Okay so I braved myself setting up some sensory tub for my son.  Actually the main purpose of this tub is to excavate the dinosaurs.  We’ve been reading books about dinosaurs lately and my son kept on asking me why some people dig dinosaurs.  It is so hard to explain it to him at the moment since he has no idea of extinction and death.  So just for fun, I told him that we will excavate (dig-up) dinosaurs and be scientists for a day!  And he was ecstatic!

Here’s our little sensory tub for digging up dinosaurs.  It contains salt (LOL) because we don’t have play sands.  I was thinking using a brown rice but they’re a bit pricey.  Then I added some egg carton box for volcanoes, mini chocolate eggs and some rocks.

This activity was primarily inspired by the Adventure of Bear’s post. She also shared a link on where to get these dinosaur information.  The ones on the tray were dinosaurs that eat meat (carnivores) while the strips on the left are for dinosaurs that eat plants(herbivores).

 

And here’s my son digging up dinosaurs and their eggs :)  We matched the dinosaurs he discovered to the ones on the strip.    As we match, I discussed whether the dinosaur eats plants or meat.  He enjoyed eating the eggs too!

  

I love how he concentrates when he’s working and how serious he was. 

He enjoyed matching as well.

And this is what we ended up with.   I love that he learned what “excavate” and “scientist” means.  He uses these words now.

 

It was fun fun fun! Despite the mess he made later(I forgot to take photos!) it was still worth the clean-up because I knew he truly had a blast and learned a lot.

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