Handprint art
- Gather your materials. You will need three large pieces of white paper, a marker, a googly eye, a paint roller , sponge or large brush, green paint, scissors and glue.
- Start by tracing your child’s hand, I only trace it once, then cut and trace that one original. Getting one good tracing takes luck with a 2 year old so I don’t push it.
- On the other paper draw a dinosaur, as you can see from mine no talent is required. As long as your child knows it’s not an alligator you are good, no need for perfection!
- Start painting both papers. We used the roller, and our hands. Let dry.
- Cut dinosaur and the hands out.
- Glue the dinosaur on the remaining piece of paper.
- Glue on the eye.
- Glue the cut out hands on to the back of the dinosaur.
* if you are using thin paper they may roll, simply roll them back the other direction and they will stay pretty straight.
Let dry.
“Tadpole REX “ by Kurt Cyrus is one of those books that I wonder why I’ve never read before. It’s so good! It could be used in a dinosaur unit to talk about how large the dinosaurs was , it’s illustrations show the size difference between a frog and a dinosaur beautifully from the frogs perspective, it could be used to teach about the frog life cycle as well. What I loved though was the rhyme and rhythm the book had, it was almost musical and in a book about frogs and dinosaurs that is awesome!
“I Am an Ankylosaurus” by Karen Wallace tels the story of an ankylosaurus and how she lays her eggs, protects them with her armour and tail, eats leaves and fights off a tyranosaurus rex. It’s not a bad book and dinosaur lovers will still like it, my son did but I was sorta left with the question “So what?” I didn’t care about this dinosaur , there was nothing that made me feel like I should. Like I said my 2 year old liked it but didn’t ask to read it again.
