Dinosaur Week Round 2: More Messy Projects

I should mention that throughout the week we watched the entire Walking With Dinosaurs series including Walking With Monsters (animals before the dinosaurs), Chased by Dinosaurs, and even some Walking with Beasts (animals after the dinosaurs, up to the last ice age). I think all of those are available for streaming on Netflix. And watching them was not very messy!

Speaking of walking, I had everyone dip their feet in paint and walk along a big length of paper.  Then I had them re-dip their feet and run (very carefully) along another length.

It was interesting, they noticed there were more footprints when they walked before they noticed that they were further apart when they ran.  It is sort of the same thing, of course!




This is how we can tell, when we find fossilized footprints, if the dinosaur was walking or running.

And, of course, it was fun to wash their feet afterwards with the hose!


Next we went inside and rolled out clay for our plastic dinosaurs "walk" over.



Choclo made impressions of bones and then had his tyrannosaur walk over them.




And someone started molding dinosaurs (Klenda?).


We also rolled out and cut sugar cookies into dinosaur shapes.



That was yummy fun, especially when we frosted them.

Then I remembered that I had little candy eyeballs.

And that may have gilded the lily, because they looked a little..odd.

Klenda tried to save it by adding smiles, but I'm not sure it helped.

But they tasted like great dinosaur cookies, and they disappeared quickly!