Dinosaur Thematic Unit

The girls finished our dinosaur thematic unit with these imaginative plasticine dino scenes, complete with carnivorous gutting of fellow dinosaurs, carcasses, herbivore leaf munching and mini dinosaur eggs

These ones are the cutest dinosaurs I have ever seen.

Using worksheets to guestimate T-Rex steps...

...and measuring tape to work it all out in real life.

From Monkey Girl here to Ballet Girl way over there: that's how long a Diplodocus is! (26 metres)

Our completed and dried papier mache dinosaur eggs

Salt dough dinosaur fossils and track waves.

The two eldest each wrote a newspaper report on Jurassic Park.  Panda Girl used the lap-top to create a Dinosaur Adventure story.

Ballet Girl made these awesome fossils for The Boy to excavate...

Here he is with his most important of all Palaeontologist tools: the spoon.

Look at those delicious freckles.

He was delighted to finish his English workbook...

...and even more thrilled when Mummy booked him a squash court.

A Trip to the Museum

Today was an outside sort of day.  We visited our local museum to see, amongst other things,  locally discovered fossils.

Mammoth tusks!

Apatosaurus vertebrae

The Boy finished the day by helping Mummy make meatballs for dinner.

A Stegosaurus Cake and Boiled Dinosaur Eggs

Ballet Girl whipped up a quick sponge cake with the Boy helping out.  She's a dab hand in the kitchen now and I'm so proud of her.

The Boy (with a little help from Mummy) cut the cake....

into a Stegosaurus shape...

...and then we ate it (perhaps we should have role played as a T-rex at this point).

Dino puzzle

I found this brilliant idea on the net somewhere.  Boil some eggs, crack them all over but don't take off the shell, leave them overnight in the fridge in food colouring and water....

 ...to make dinosaur eggs...

to eat for lunch :)

Ballet Girl made salt dough and everyone made fossils or dinosaur track waves.

We baked for 3 hours at 100C, ready for painting.

We measured the actual size of a T-rex footprint...

we painted...

..The Boy made a baby dinosaur and egg...

...and had fun with a bicarb and vinegar volcano.

They spent a happy hour doing races and 'working out' in the garden...

...and the highlight of their day was a visit from a much loved Uncle Anthony.