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Simply Use the Easter Egg Jell-O mold to make dinosaur eggs with the children. Put fruit dinosaur snack in the middle of the Jell-O for added effect. Make a sheet of Jell-O and use cookie cutters to make them in the shape of dinosaurs Show your students many pictures of dragons from different cultures. Then explain to them that in the Chinese culture dragons are seen as helpful beings. Next have your children to cut a lot of large ovals from paper. You can then draw a dragon on bulletin board. Then have your children use the ovals as dragon scales. Make dragon puppets out of brown lunch sacks. Have children cut out ovals and glue all over the bag. Next they can add eyes a mouth (with teeth) and horns! Put these in your dramatic play area and let your children pretend to be dragons. Provide you students with mud, sticks, grass, leaves, twigs, pine needles, and pebbles. Let you kids create their own duck nest. Make a Chinese New Year dragon from boxes. Take a cardboard box and cover it with red paper (to make the head). Next cover a smaller box to make a snout. Attach to the small box to the larger one and add eyes (small paper plates), mouth (complete with teeth, and red streamer flames). Tape the head to the floor. If you want to be real creative you can put a tail coming out of another part of the floor (like the dragon is coming through the floor)

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D is for Dinosaur digging. Find miniature bones and put them in your sand table. Let your children through the sand and find the little bones. Then they glued then on paper to make their own dinosaur. Little paleontoligists! Everything Preschool >> Alphabet   >> The Letter D >> More