Home Hot Topics Articles About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading NEWSlink Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education The Reading Corner Teaching Children with Special Needs The Teachers’ Lounge Teacher QuickSource® Professional Development by Discount School Supply® Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements ProSolutions CEUs Subscribe today to our monthly newsletter!   ACTIVITY Digging for Dinosaurs By Julie Joy Sensory play is important for toddlers. Scooping and pouring uses fine motor skills as well as introducing basic math concepts such as less and more. Sets of small creatures, like dinosaurs, encourage one to one correspondence, counting, and other pre-math ideas. Before You Start If you do not have a sand table or area, dump sand into several smaller dishpans Let's Begin 1. Bury inexpensive plastic dinosaurs in the sand. 2. Show the children how to dig with spoons or shovels to discover the dinosaurs. 3. Encourage the toddler to cover up the dinosaurs to hide from view. Show them how to line up the dinosaurs in rows or bury together in sets of two. Furthermore You can substitute oatmeal for sand if you desire. This is not harmful if the younger children put it in their mouths and cleans up with a vacuum.   Tweet Sand box, sand table or dishpans Sand Plastic dinosaurs Spoons, shovels, other instruments Small Best Value Sand & Water Activity Table Shovels and Rakes - Set of 8 Medium Solid Dinosaurs - Set of 12 Sand & Water Activity Tubs - Set of 4 Assorted Mini Dinosaurs - 128pc Jar Dinosaur Bones Sand Mold Set Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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