Animal Dominoes

Busy Bee Kids Printables are a wonderful website and have five sets of animal dominoes to download and print for free. The sets on offer are farm animals, ocean animals, bugs, safari and dinosaurs.

Each pdf file has two pages and basic instructions.  Click here to go to the site.

Letter D:D is for dinosaur:Lacing template

Free to download here from Activity Village

Letter D: D is for dinosaur:magnet page

Free to download from Confessions of a Homeschooler.  Click here for a whole page of related activities - scroll down for the magnet page.

Letter D: D is for dinosaur: numeric clip cards

Download these for free as part of the Dinosaurs pre-K pack at Over the Big Moon.

The numeric clip cards are on p 15-17 inclusive of the pdf but other activities included in the pack are:

• prewriting practise
• cutting practise
• which one is different
• what comes next (patterns ) 
• size  sequencing
• simple puzzles
• sorting dinosaurs v food
• number sequence puzzle
• colour the dinosaur
• 3 part cards
• shadow matching
• find the D and d
• dinosaur pairs
• dino part words
• D is for dinosaur magnet page
• D and d sorting activity

Letter D: D is for dinosaur: numeric sequence puzzle

Download this puzzle for free as part of the Dinosaurs pre-K pack at Over the Big Moon.

The numeric sequence puzzle is on p 11 of the pdf but other activities included in the pack are:

• prewriting practise
• cutting practise
• which one is different
• what comes next (patterns ) 
• size  sequencing
• simple puzzles
• sorting dinosaurs v food
• number clipcards
• colour the dinosaur
• 3 part cards
• shadow matching
• find the D and d
• dinosaur pairs
• dino part words
• D is for dinosaur magnet page
• D and d sorting activity

Letter D: d is for dinosaur:size sort

Free for download from Confessions of a Homeschooler - click here for a whole page of related activities and scroll down for the size sort.

Resources By Theme Master List: Dinosaur Theme

In an attempt to organise my own bookmarks and to pick and choose from all the great FREE resources available to download and print I have started listing them in these master lists by type of resource and also by theme.  You can access these master lists by using the tabs at the top of the page.
This post is on the theme of dinosaurs and will be updated periodically as I add resources to this blog or discover new sources.  If you know of any that you think should be included feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy!

dinosaur

magnet page

size sort

number clip cards

numeric sequence puzzle

our own d is for dinosaur magnet page

dino colour match file folder game

Dinosaur board on Pinterest

Letter D: d is for dinosaur: Magnet Page

Confessions of Home Schooler has a fantastic range of dino activities for the letter D - but the magnet page included (scroll halfway down) is for an uppercase D and as I posted here I have my own reasons for wanting to start with lower case letters not upper case.
So here is our version with a lower case d.

Fine motor skills: split pin minibeasts

Fine motor skills by stealth as A had to cut these out, punch the holes and attach the paper fasteners (brads?) himself.  We downloaded the project from here at Sparklebox and it fitted in with
National Wildlife week in the UK (14th-20th March) and our general Spring theme.

They also have other characters that you can download:
Animals (lion, elephant, horse,tiger, and teddy)
Ocean animals (turtle, jellyfish,mermaid,octopus and shark)
Dinosaurs
Christmas (santa and a snowman
Teddy bear
Pets (cat dog fish and rabbit)

File Folder Games: Dinosaur colour matching game for download

I have to confess I hadn't really come across File Folder Games as a concept until I started reading homeschool blogs during the last year.  File Folder Games along with Lapbooks were often mentioned and I didn't know what they were.  What I discovered was that File Folder Games are home-made games that allow learning and reinforcement on any subject and any level; they can be for kids to work on alone or for multiple players; and there are thousands of examples on the net for you to to inspired by or even use directly due to the generosity of some great educators.  This game is one such.
This file folder game is free for download from File Folder Fun.  It is a simple one to one colour matching game that you could use on its own or as part of a dinosaur theme and is listed along with several others on this page.
B got this straight away.  As I passed him each dinosaur he put it straight on the different shaped one that matched in colour (I think the only one he hesitated over was the purple one which he initially matched with the pink).  Of course we talked about each colour as we put them into the game as well.

triceratops hat

In the same vein as the giraffe and elephant heads we made earlier this year - here is the original costume inspired by the triceratops in How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? again made from corrugated cardboard and papier mache.