Monday, September 22, 2025

Dinosaurs Again - A Family STEAM & Stories event

This program was intended to introduce STEAM concepts through stories and exploration activity stations to families with children ages 3-8 years old.    

Intro song:  Hello Friends (sign language action song for the words hello, friends, math, fun, and time)

Hello friends,
Hello friends,
Hello friends,
It's time to say hello.

Hello science,
Hello science,
Hello science,
It's time to have some fun.  
 

Hello dinosaur,
Hello dinosaur,
Hello dinosaur,
It’s time to give a roar!

 

Demonstration and Storytime:


 

·         Read the book T. Rex Meets It’s Match by Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia, illustrated by Marie Bollmann

·         Show pictures of dinosaurs and try to name them. 

·         Show the word cards for dinosaur, fossil, and extinct.  Talk about what the definitions of these words. 

·         Talk about how large a dinosaur footprint would be.

·         Show the life-size dinosaur footprint (pre-drawn on butcher paper). Guess how many children would fit inside this footprint (nontraditional measurement). 

·         Urge the children to stand in the footprint and count how many children fit inside.     

·         Instruct on how to use the stations. 

 

Stations: 

 


Station #1- Dinosaur scratch art ornament (similar to seen at https://a.co/d/1WgrDBX)

Use the wooden stylus to scratch off the black to create a colorful dinosaur.    

 


Station #2 – Clay fossil print   

Children take a small clump of air dry clay and then press it flat.  Next, they make fossil-like imprints in the clay with the provided materials (such as shells, pinecones, toy dinosaurs, sticks, plastic toy plants, etc.). 

  


Station #3 – Dinosaur classification   

The children look at dinosaur toy figures.  They place the dinosaurs on the classification papers that best match each dinosaur (carnivore, herbivore, four legs, two legs, lives in the ocean, etc.) 

 

 

Station #4 – Dinosaur Memory Game



 

Station #5 – Large 3-D Dino Bones (as seen at https://shop.imaginationplayground.com/products/large-dino-bones?srsltid=AfmBOoqi_RFKZZcZsZ90CPiaMF4v8pWW5od1njSr69Op55FcSR5SCxTL)

 

 

 

 

 

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