Dinosaur Cards and Worksheets (Free Printable)

Hello everyone!  My son asked me to create cards for his Safari Ltd. Dino TOOB figures, and this is what I came up with.  He was ecstatic when he saw the cards!  They’re actually fact cards for his dino figures for us to study.

Still Life 101 ~ Apples

We haven’t done any painting activities for quite a while now.  So I was inspired when I came across this blog of an art teacher.   This site is full of wonderful art projects for little ones and are so easy to emulate. And I said to myself that we have to try her works!

We started with Still Life.  As inspired by one of her art projects for kindergartens, I salvaged some of the apples from the fridge and use it as our subject. Please excuse some of the stains in the mat and plate, prior to this, my son has been playing with them LOL.  So by the time I took the photo, one apple has a bite mark, the paper plate has Nutella on the side and the mat has some orange watercolor stains.

To start with, I created the outlines using a drafting compass.  Using a plastic spoon, we swirled (circular motion) the red tempera paint on each smaller circles.  Then we let it dry for about 3-4 hrs.

               

When it was ready, I let him trace the outline of the apples and plate using a black permanent pen.  Then he added details for the apples as well.

We completed the work by applying green watercolors on the background and yellow on the plate. 

 

And here’s the finish product. Tada! He loved his work so much that he placed this in our hallway (his gallery LOL).  I am amazed on how he can finally follow instructions with regards to painting and enjoy the activity as well.  He told me we should paint the muffins next :)

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Homemade Dinosaur Fossils

These homemade fossils were a huge hit!! A wonderful way to experience first hand how dinosaur fossils actually look like even if they’re just pretend.  It’s the best way to teach little kiddos how fossils were formed and how dinosaurs were dug by scientists.

Recipe for my fossil dough:

1.  Make a 3/4 cup instant coffee (need not to be hot).

2.  1 and a half cup of flour

3.  Half cup of salt

Mix everything, just like how you do with play dough. 

Press press press those dino figures in the dough :)

Bake the dough (after pressing the dino in the dough) at 180C for 30-35mins.

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Continent ~ Africa [3] (Flags and Landmarks with Printable)

The last part of our Africa unit is learning about countries of Africa, the flags and famous landmarks.  Our map works can be found here and animal studies on this link.

NOTE:  All the flag cards used in this activity can be accessed from my Flags of Africa file. It contains the pin flags, nomenclature cards, flag cards for matching with landmarks and matching cards of country and capital for a price of 0.99cents (USD) only.

We started with pin flags.

Followed by 3 part cards of Flags of Africa.

We worked on the landmarks and match the country flag of its location.

I have a set of African Landmarks available for only 0.99cents (USD) and you can download it from here.  It contains 29 landmarks around Africa and includes a title card as well.

 

We also checked the landmarks in YouTube to see the ‘real thing’.

            

Matching country flag, name and capital was a little bit advanced so I selected a few of his favorite countries and worked on the matching activity. 

            

            

Flaglets using art papers.

          

 

Map works and landmarks again, this time locating the landmarks in the Africa map.

           

And that concludes our Continent Study of Africa, and we’ll revisit this once again next year! Hoping that I was able to share something significant that could add up to your activities in the future.

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