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Salt Dough Fossil Puzzle

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When we made the Dinosaur kindergarten pack with Cassie at 3 Dinosaurs I knew I wanted to do something with fossils.  I suddenly remembered the salt dough creations from Tired, Need Sleep and knew I had it!  I mixed the salt dough together and then added in some curry to make it look a bit more like sand/rock.  The curry also made it smell pretty good!

Salt Dough Recipe:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water

Mix until dough forms.  Bake at 200 for an hour or 2, depending on how thick your creation is.

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I used wax paper so that I wouldn’t have a salt dough mess on the table.  I rolled out the dough and then cut it in little circles using the lid from some peach containers.  Then we carefully pushed the dinosaurs into the dough and removed them.
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I had the boys do their own dinosaurs.  They each had 4 to do.  I had to help them be gentle enough that they didn’t push the dinosaurs all the way through!
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Royal needed more help than Baloo, but he also made some good imprints!
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I let the fossils bake for about 45 minutes.  They were not completely dry but we weren’t planning on keeping them forever so I didn’t swear it. 

Once they were cooled off I let the boys match the dinosaurs to their fossil!  We made a few track waves (foot prints) so we tried to match the dino to the footprint too.
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Baloo was all about the matching!
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They fit in really well!
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Royal was less interested.  He really just wanted to play with the dinosaurs…
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And eat the “cookies”.  He didn’t think they were too salty surprisingly…
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Logi-Bear enjoyed playing with the fossils and dinosaurs too…he’s much too young for the matching aspect though.
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Make sure to check out our other dinosaur activities and the dinosaur Kindergarten pack!

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Dinosaur Sensory Bin

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Logi-Bear is at that age where he does not want to be left out of any activity, but he puts everything in his mouth!  My solution was an edible sensory bin! 

I got some green Jell-O to be grass like.  I simply made the Jell-O, put the dinosaurs in it, and then stuck it in the fridge to cool so the dinos would be submerged in the Jell-O.  I thought they would be all the way in the Jell-O but apparently I didn’t have enough! 

Then I used my food processor to grind up some rolled oats and added just enough water to make it firm oatmeal.

Pretty simple for a sensory bin!  And very inexpensive!  The Jell-O was store brand for 50 cents and the oatmeal is about $2.50 for a large container!  The dinosaurs were from the dino Toob.  We usually get them at Joanns with a coupon.
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I wanted Logi-Bear to have his fair chance to explore so I told Royal and Baloo they had to wait for a minute.  I didn’t count on Logi-Bear having no interest in touching the Jell-O whatsoever!  He stared at it for a long time!  The older boys were so restless!

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He finally decided he wanted to touch a dinosaur and reached in…
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Then I let them all dig in!
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Logi-Bear still wasn’t interested in getting his hands goopy.  He started bringing over rocks and dirt to add to the bin.
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I was so worried about Logi-Bear eating our sensory bins that I did not see this coming!
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The dinosaurs climbed the mountain in the middle (the oatmeal) a lot!
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I urged them to get messy and put their hands in!  How often do you get to just play with Jell-O after all?
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Logi-Bear still didn’t want to touch it!  He went and got this beach umbrella attachment!
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But he did end up playing a little bit…
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And he even decided to taste some of it!
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Be sure to check out the awesome Dinosaur Kindergarten Pack that I worked on with Cassie at 3dinosaurs.com!  This activity would be a great addition to the pack!

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Dinosaur Kindergarten Pack

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I recently had the opportunity to “meet” Cassie at 3 Dinosaurs and we decided to work together on a few new projects; the first of them being dinosaur themed packs!!  Cassie took over the Tot Pack and PreK/K pack, and I added on some more Kindergarten activities!

In the Kindergarten pack there is:
Montessori Match Up
Dinosaur Roll and Graph
Herbivore/Carnivore Sorting
Dinosaur Sudoku
Dinosaur Word Problems
Skip counting by 5s
100’s Chart
Write a Dino Story
Number Fill In

Download the Kindergarten Dinosaur Pack

Plus a Dinosaur, Dinosaur, What Do You See? easy reader available in both eReader and printable versions!
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Download the PDF (eReader) version
Download the printable version

 

Head over to 3 Dinosaurs to see Cassie’s massive Dinosaur pack (60 pages!!), including:
3 Part Cards, Beginning Sounds, Matching Cards, Read Write the Room, Which One Is Different, What Comes Next, Pre Writing Practice, Pattern Cards, 10 Piece Puzzles, 4 Piece Puzzles, Clip and Count Cards, Size Sorting, Color the Pattern, Barrier Game, and more.
And the Tot Pack:
Basic Prewriting,  2 Part Puzzles, Matching, Coloring the Stegosaurus, Counting, Cutting Practice, 9 Piece Puzzle

Dinosaur Pack at 3 Dinosaurs

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