Looking for a fun dinosaur activity/craft to do with the kids? Either at home with your toddler or as part of an activity in a preschool/nursery/school?
Have a look at this really simple and fun activity, making dinosaur ‘fossils’ (imprints) using toy dinosaurs and salt dough.
What do you need?
– Salt dough ingredients:
- 3/4 cup Water
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup salt
– Dinosaur toys (we used these by Learning Resources Uk*)
– Paint for Decorating
How do you make them?
Mix the salt dough ingredients in a bowl, stir and then knead into a ball. (See our more detailed Salt Dough Recipe here)
Separate into small balls for the kids to flatten and then press into them using the plastic toy dinosaurs.
They can press the whole body into the salt dough for a ‘complete fossil’ or just the tail.
They could even do Dino footprints!
Pop in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius and keep checking until hard but not brown.
Once dry, the children could paint them or even use them to fill with play dough to make ‘casts’.
What can children learn from this activity and how do they benefit?
- Learn about the world we live in- discussions could be promoted about how fossils are made, when the dinosaurs were around, where fossils have been found etc.
- Numeracy- Measuring ingredients for the salt dough.
- Creativity- decorating and making the fossils.
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Your fossils look great! Those little dinosaurs are so cute too! We’ve made salt dough before but not used it to make fossils. #KidsandKreativity
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Thanks Debbie! It was a lot of fun
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These are fabulous! We’ve done dinosaur fossils in playdough but never though about doing them in saltdough! #KidsandKreativity
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Thank you, it was really fun!
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Great activity! We love playdough, as you know, and salt dough is almost the same so always a hit. Lots of lovely motor skills practice as well as sensory fun, and perhaps learning something about dinosaurs as well, brilliant! xx #KidsandKreativity
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Thanks Malin, we had such a good time. Really fun and nice to have something special to keep afterwards
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We’ve done this with playdoh as part of our Dinovember antics but using saltdough is a great idea!! We’ll definitely do this again. #KidsandKreativity
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Ah thanks, play dough sounds like a great idea too. We loved having the salt dough ‘fossils’ to keep after- was very special.
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Great idea, my son would really love this. Thank you so much for linking up to #KidsandKreativity, hope to see you back next time x
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Thank you,l
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