It’s no secret that dinosaurs are fascinating, mysterious, and downright entertaining. Dinos are perfect for a preschool theme that will excite your eager learners. Get ready to adventure through Jurassic times and return with the most valuable souvenir of all: strengthened literacy skills and memories filled with fun dinosaur literacy activities!
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Dinosaur Lesson Plans
Alphabet Dinosaur Game
Dinosaur Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
This Alpha-Saurus boldly gobbles up letters like I can throw down on some tacos. No shame here.
He even has his own song, which your preschoolers will love to sing and stomp to before they feed him some delicious letters. Chomp, chomp, chomp!
The combination of feeding the dinosaur with singing is like chips and queso – irresistible!
Materials:
- Alpha-Saurus Dinosaur Alphabet Game
- cookie sheets (Dollar Tree)
- magnetic letters
- disinfecting wipes container
Dinosaur Fossil Alphabet
Dinosaur Sensory Bin
For over forty years, my family has camped at Lake McConaughy. The silky sand lures us in like fish to bait. Naturally, the first thing we do when we get there is allow our feet (and our stress) to melt into that soft sand.
While there are no fossils to find in the sand at Lake McConaughy, there are lettered fossils to dig for this next dinosaur alphabet activity.
Just like how the sand lures us to the lake, your preschoolers won’t be able to resist digging through the silky soft sand to find the fossils—either cut out individually or on a mat taped to the bottom of the sensory bin.
Let your stress of finding your next dinosaur literacy activity melt away, and grab Fossil Find today!
Materials:
- Fossil Find Dinosaur Alphabet Activity
- sensory bin filled with sand
- paintbrushes
- Optional: small bones
- Optional: dinosaur skeletons
Capture the Dinosaurs Game
Dinosaur Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
This. This is my go-to game for all subjects.
Create a game board or simply arrange flash cards (letters, numbers, sight words, math facts, etc.) in a circle. Place five objects or counters you are trying to capture on any cards. Start your game piece on any space.
The object of the game is to roll the die and move in either direction to try to capture the dinosaurs (in this case).
Your preschoolers will love moving their Jeep and trying to capture the dinosaurs by landing on top, and you will love that they are working on letter identification with every roll of the die.
Materials:
Dinosaur Egg Hunt
Dinosaur Beginning Sounds Activity
A golden monkey named Elmer gets hidden around our house for others to find.
When we find him, we only get a high five and the opportunity to hide him again, so why bother?
Because of the thrill of the hunt, people. That’s why.
And that thrill can also be found in this next dinosaur activity.
Hide eggs containing dinosaur hatchlings with beginning sound pictures around the room. Just like with Easter eggs or Elmer hunting, the excitement will be golden.
Your preschoolers will search for every egg, not realizing the hidden skills of letter identification or beginning sounds.
Materials:
- Dinosaur Egg Hunt Beginning Sounds Activity
- Easter eggs
- markers/crayons
Dinosaur Opposite Words
Dinosaur Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
What do you call a dinosaur with a big vocabulary?
A thesaurus. Ha!
All dino jokes aside, synonyms and antonyms are important to building a big vocabulary!
These self-correcting puzzles focus on dinosaur opposite words. Each puzzle features pictures of dinosaur-themed opposite words for your toddlers to match up.
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After embarking on a learning adventure with these dinosaur literacy activities for preschoolers, you’ll be able to safely say dinosaurs have won over your heart and early literacy skills have been purposefully practiced! Don’t let the learning stop there… check out the full bundle of carefully crafted dinosaur activities that complete the dinosaur theme.
