Dig into this EDIBLE Fossil, Dinosaur Activity for Preschoolers
If you are talking about archologists, history, or kid-favorite dinosaurs, you will love this fun dinosaur dig! This dinosaur activity allos children to have fun exploring texture as they play and learn about the job of a paleontologist who digs through material to find animal remains. This fossil activities is simple, silly, and fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!
Dinosaur dig
This hands-on dinosaur activity is just what you’ve been looking for to add to your lesson plan preschool dinosaur theme! Kids will have fun with this dinosaur excavation that is quick, easy, and enthralling for hours of play! For this dinosaur fossil activities you have lots of choices of what you dig for depending on our child’s age and your empahses. Either way, this fossil activities is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students too!
Dinosaur Activity
All you need for this outrageously fun dinosar play is:
- jello – you choose the flavor (or use chocolate pudding with crushed oreo at the top for a messy excavation!)
- gummy dinosaurs
- insect gummies
- ocean gummies
- or use non-edible figures like dinosaurs, dinosaur bones, insects, or archeological treasures, etc.
Fossil Activities
Pick what you are looking to dig for – from dinosaurs to insects, and more! Decide whether you want it to be a completely edible activity or just a semi-edible activity.
Dinosaur Fossil Activities
Put your gummy candy of choice in a bowl, make jello directions based on the box, and pour into the bowl. Chill per package directions.
Dinosaur excavation
Use a finger or spoon to dig around the gelatin to make your archological find.
Dinosaur excavation activity
Of course when you find it, you just may need to eat it!
Dinosaur Activities
I suggest you put ocean creatures in blue jello, dinosaurs in red for lava, worms in green grass, or you can always use the brown pudding with cookie crumbes on top approach!
DInosaur Theme
Dig into this outrageously fun, EDIBLE activity where preschoolers will explore textures as they play & learn about fossils & archeologists.
Dinosaur Activity Ideas
If you are looking for other fun, free dinosaur printables to make learning fun with a dinosaur theme you will love these resources:
- Dinosaur Ten Frame Addition
- Dino Number Recognition Games
- Dinosaur Unit 2nd Grade
- Printable Dinosaur Color by Number Worksheets
- D is for Dinosaur
- Alphabet Tracing Worksheets
- Dinosaur Playdough Mats
- Dinosaur Printable PackÂ
- Dino Bones Punctuation Game
- Dinosaur Worksheets Preschool
- Dinosaur Printables
- Printable Dinosaur Sight Words Activity
- Dinosaur Science Preschool
- Dinosaur Kindergarten STEM Activities
- Free Dinosaur Math Worksheets
Insect Activities
If are looking for more bug activities for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners – including lots of free insect printables, you will love these FREE resources:
- Peek-a-Bug Insect Alphabet Printable – four abc games to help kids learn their ABCs, match upper and lowercase letters, and more!
- Ladybug Ladybug Activities for Preschoolers activity for pre-k and kindergarten
- Bug Free printable sight word games is a simple-to-play way to practice sight words with preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students
- I is for Inchworm insect activities including a worm observation book
- Stamped Potato Bee Craft for spring
- Cute Spider Name Craft
- Firefly Preschool Counting Worksheets
- Gummy Worm Edible Slime
- Fun, hands-on Spiders Activities for Preschoolers Activities
- Quick-and-Easy Spider Slime
- All About Earthworm Life Cycle Worksheets
- Insect Printables for Preschoolers 1-10 Coloring Book for preschoolers
- Ladybug Life Cycle Worksheet Pages
- Bug color by blend worksheet – Coloring by Blends
- Free printable Life Cycle of a Spider for Kids worksheets
- Ladybug Life cycle for Kids worksheets
- Life Cycle of a Mosquito Printables
- Free Bee Counting Game
- Lots of fun, hands-on learning ideas in this Free Insect Activities for Preschoolers
- Bee and Insect Theme Preschool
- SUPER cute Spider math activities for preschoolers with Playdough Mats
- Fun, Insect Telling Time Puzzles
- Catch 20 Bug Counting Activity for Pre-k and Kindergarten
- Ladybug Addition Math Game for Kindergartners and Grade 1 students
- Bug free printable sight word books pdf – children will cut and paste sentences, color the insect coloring pages, and practice reading sight words
Bug Activity
- Free Printable, Simple Bug Coloring Pages for kids
- Shape Spider Worksheets Preschool and Kindergarten
- Insect Worksheets to learn about lots of different bugs in our world
- Practice Letters A-Z with these Free Insect Printables
- Learn all about ants with these creative ant activities for preschoolers
- Bug Math Worksheets for pre-k and kindergarten students
- Cute Bug Counting Bugs Worksheet
- Measuring Lines of Bugs Preschool Measurement Worksheets
- Count and Clip Bugs Counting to 30 Worksheets
- Buzzing Bees Numbers 1-12 Worksheets
- I Spy Printables pdf – bug activity sheets
- Bee CVC Words Activity for Kids
- Bug Themed Find the letter worksheets pdf
- FUN Backyard Critter Bug Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Ladybug Counting Mats
- Silly Worm Count to 10 Sticker Worksheets
- Free Printable Insect Mini Book to learn about bug life cycles
- Hands-on Spider Shape Activities for Preschoolers
- Free, Educational Insect Coloring Pages pdf for kids
- Help children work on spelling their name with these insect free printable name recognition activities
- Plus don’t miss these fun-to-read bug books for preschool0
Ocean Activities for Kids
Looking for more ocean activities for kids? You will love these clever, free resources and ideas:
- Ocean Color by Number Worksheets
- Shark Preschool Name Activity
- FUN Ocean I Spy Printables
- Ocean Simple Coloring Pages
- Pearl Color Matching activity
- Try this Watercolor and Crayon Ocean Craft
- Ocean Printable Count & Trace for prek / k
- Whale Reader is a fun ocean printables for kids to read, color and learn about these ocean giants
- Cupcake Liner Octopus Craft
- O is for Ocean Weekly Theme for Prek / K
- Ocean Number Do a Dot Printables to work on Counting to 10
- Tons of ideas for a weeks worth of fun learning with an Ocean Theme
- Octopus Color Matching Craft
- HUGE pack of Ocean Worksheets for practicing a variety of skills with toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age students
- 50 Amazing Ocean Crafts for Kids
Don’t miss the other animal studies we’ve created!
- All About Whales
- All About Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walrus)
- All About Herps (sea turtles, sea snakes, aquatic frogs, toads, salamander)
- All About Fish, Sharks, and Rays
- All About Mollusks, Crustaceans, & Cephalopods (crabs, lobsters, octopus, bivalves, clams)
- All About Echinoderms & Cnidarians (Jellyfish, Sea Stars, Sand Dollars, Coral)
- Continents and Oceans Printables, Ocean Themed Handwriting, Ocean Printables
- Huge Ocean Unit (250+ pages)