It’s the 15th of the month, and I have a new themed post! Today, I have some Montessori-inspired dinosaur activities using free dinosaur printables … fun for dinosaur lovers at any time. A dinosaur theme is one of my favorite summer units (especially fun this summer with the opening of Jurassic World)!
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Dinosaur Math Activities Using Free Printables
Count the Dinosaurs
Count the Dinosaurs Tray
Free Printable: Count the Dinosaurs from Dinosaur Pack (part 2) from 3 Dinosaurs. I also used the numbers from the same printable. For older children, there are Greater Than/Less Than, Add the Dinosaurs, and Subtract the Dinosaurs printables in the same printable pack. You could have more than one printable on the tray to accommodate different ages and ability levels.
Free Printable: Safari Ltd. Dino Babies TOOB Key hosted at Living Montessori Now
This activity uses a large plastic tray from Montessori Services and a smaller Montessori Services clear acrylic tray for 10 dinosaurs from the Safari Ltd. Dinos TOOB
For the layout, I used a Montessori Services rug. I used the Safari Ltd. TOOB key as a separate matching activity for children and as a way for you to identify each of the dinosaurs on the tray.
Count the Dinosaurs Layout
Palentologist Skip Counting Puzzles
Paleontologist Skip Counting Puzzles
Free Printable: Palentologist Puzzles from Dinosaur Update (Dinosaur Pack part 4) from 3 Dinosaurs
I simply printed out, laminated, and cut out the puzzle pieces. I like that there’s a male paleontologist and a female paleontologist. They look the same except for their hair.
Each puzzle has skip counting by 2’s to 20. To make it more challenging, you could put both puzzles in the same container. I used a Really Useful Pencil Box.
Paleontologist Skip Counting Puzzles Activity Bag
I love activity bags for trips and waiting rooms, so I also put together a paleontologist skip counting puzzles activity bag. This sort of activity would be easy to prepare with any printable puzzle. I used a zippered pencil pouch for the bag.
Dinosaur Number Mazes
Dinosaur Number Mazes
Free Printable: Dinosaur Roar PreK-K Pages from Encouraging Moms at Home
This was super simple to prepare. I used two dinosaurs from the Safari Ltd. Dinos TOOB. The child simply flies the pterodactyl through the maze or walks the dinosaur through the maze.
There are two mazes … one with numbers from 1-10 and one with skip counting by 10’s to 100.
Dinosaur Number Line Addition and Subtraction/Hatching Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Number Line Addition and Subtraction – Hatching Dinosaurs
Free Printable: Dinosaur Number Line Addition and Subtraction Within 10 by The Teaching Treehouse at Teachers Pay Teachers
Free Printable: Safari Ltd. Dino Babies TOOB Key hosted at Living Montessori Now
For this activity, I used the 10 dino babies from the Safari Ltd. Dino Babies TOOB. You could use regular dinosaurs rather than dino babies, but I think the dino babies are a cute touch.
The tray is a Multicraft tray, and the small basket is a Montessori Services basket. Montessori Services carries baskets in sizes that are often difficult to find. You could have an erasable marker for children to write the answers on the number line card, although it would be fine for the child to simply find the correct answer on the number line.
The answer could be checked by adding or subtracting the eggs with the dinosaur babies. I placed the dinosaurs in jumbo plastic Easter eggs.
If you have younger children, you could use dinosaur count and clip cards or dinosaur number cards to match to the correct number of eggs. The child could place the numbers upside down and draw the number to match with the correct number of “dinosaur eggs.”
Again, the Safari Ltd. TOOB key is for the child to match the dinosaurs at the end and to make it easier for you to identify each of the dinosaur babies.
Dinosaur Number Line Addition Layout
Measuring Dinosaurs
Measuring Dinosaurs
Free Printable: Dinosaur Unit Science and Culture Printable Pack from Every Star Is Different (Go to Free Printables Tab, then to Thematic Activities, and then to Dinosaur & Prehistoric Creature Activities to find the dinosaur activities and printables)
Every Star is Different has an amazing number of free dinosaur cards. I printed out and cut out some of the dinosaurs found in the Safari Ltd. Dino TOOB. Then I glued the dinosaur image on one side with the skeleton and dinosaur length on the other side.
I used a simple bamboo paper plate holder to hold the cards and a tape measure. This activity would be fun for two children or a group of children (or one child and parent or teacher). This would definitely be a good activity to take outdoors!
Free Dinosaur Printables for Preschoolers-First Graders (some printables for up to grade 3)
Here, I’m sharing the links to free dinosaur printables for preschoolers through 1st graders (and sometimes older). To keep my list manageable, I don’t share coloring pages unless a page has a specific educational purpose related to dinosaurs.
- Dinosaur Fact Cards and Worksheet from The Pinay Homeschooler
- Feathered Dinosaur Cards from The Pinay Homeschooler
- Dinosaur Printables from Every Star Is Different (Go to Free Printables Tab, then to Thematic Activities, and then to Dinosaur & Prehistoric Creature Activities to find the dinosaur activities and printables)
- Dinosaur Kindergarten Pack from Royal Baloo
- Dinosaur Printables from Royal Baloo
- Dinosaur Pack from 3 Dinosaurs
- Dinosaur Dot Markers from 3 Dinosaurs
- Dinosaur Gross Motor Dice from 3 Dinosaurs (plus many more free dinosaur printables!)
- Jump into Summer Learning: Dinosaurs from3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo
- Dinosaur Free Printable Sight Word Game from Brain Power Boy
- Dinosaur Early Learning Pack from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
- Dinosaur Bones Punctuation Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
- Dinosaur Fact Cards and Writing Prompts from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
- Dinosaur Printables from Making Learning Fun
- Dinosaurs Printables from Kids-Dinosaurs
- Dinosaur Printables from Preschool Mom
- Dinosaur Printables from Busy Bee Kids Printables
- Dinosaur Themed Logic Puzzles from Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
- “If I Had a Pet Dinosaur” Printable from Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
- Dinosaur Pre-K Pack from Over the Big Moon
- D is for Dinosaur from First School
- Dinosaur Printables from DLTK
- Free Dinosaur Emergent Readers (funny) from The Measured Mom
- Dinosaur Double Addition Game from The Measured Moom
- Dinosaur Train Tot Pack from 1+1+1=1
- Dinosaur Train Printables from PBS Kids
- Dinosaur Printables from PreK-8
- PreK Letter D from Confessions of a Homeschooler
- Dinosaur Printables from Pre-K Pages
- Dinosaur Printables from PreKinders
- Dinosaur Maze from Print Activities
- Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! from Pitner’s Potpourri
- Dinosaur Themed Party from Place of My Taste
- Dinosaur Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers
More of my Resources That Include Dinosaur Activities
You’ll find lots of Montessori-inspired dinosaur activities and ideas in these Living Montessori Now posts:
Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Unit
Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Fun with Printables, Water Beads, and Glass Gems
Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Activities Using Dinosaur Replicas
Make Fossils from Montessori at Home!
Dinosaur Ice Melt Science Experiment for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Dinosaur Unit Study Pinterest Board
All My Dinosaur Posts
- Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Unit
- Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Fun with Printables, Water Beads, and Glass Gems
- Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Activities Using Dinosaur Replicas
- Make Fossils from Montessori at Home!
- Free Dinosaur Printables and Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Math Activities
- Dinosaur Ice Melt Science Experiment for Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Free Dinosaur Printables and Montessori-Inspired Dinosaur Language Activities
- Free Dinosaur Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Free Dinosaur Cutting Strips {Montessori-Inspired Instant Download}
- I Have, Who Has? Dinosaur Game
- Free Oviparous Animal Printables and Montessori-Inspired Oviparous Animal Activities
- Dinosaur Discovery Activities from Montessori By Mom
- Free Fossil Printables and Montessori-Inspired Fossil Activities
- Free Fossils and Imprint Do-a-Dot Printables (Montessori-Inspired Phonics Instant Download)
- Free Paleontology Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Simple Dinosaur Sensory Bin with Dinosaur Eggs Scavenger Hunt
- Favorite Books for a Fossil Theme
- Dinosaur Unit Study Pinterest Board
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I love the way you used my dinosaur pack!
My kids (ages 3 and 2) are really interested in Dinosaurs right now. Thanks for these fun ideas!
Thank you for putting together such a fun list of dinosaur ideas!