Dinosaur Dig!

While studying Dinosaurs in November we talked about Palentologists and Archeologists so we pretended that we were digging for Dinosaur bones today. Each child had their own bowl of rice with some (paper) dinosaur bones in them and they used paint brushes to uncover/dig for the bones because we discussed how the bones are so old that they are fragile sometimes and how the paint brush is soft and how Archeologists use brushes rather then shovels to uncover the bones since it's more gentle. The kids were very excited about finding the bones. And then once they had found all 4 bones they had to reconstruct the dinosaur on paper. We got a few interesting variations and I loved the dinosaur faces the kids were trying to make while I took their picture.