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A dinosaur theme can enhance imaginative play and teach about
change over time.

Children are endlessly fascinated by dinosaurs, so the enthusiasm of a few can quickly spread to all the others in a setting. Here are some activity ideas that give children a real insight into how the world of the dinosaurs has been uncovered and explored.

PALAEONTOLOGICAL DIG

Set up your own outdoor role-play palaeontological dig.

- Put up a tent. Provide sleeping bags, torches, pots, pans, camping kettle and mugs.

- Set out some shallow trays filled with damp sand. Press dinosaur bones, skeletons and fossils into the sand. Cover the bones and fossils with a layer of dry sand.

- Provide sieves, small brushes, clay sculpting tools, toy hammers and chisels for excavation.

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