Dinosaur Habitat Play

Create this Dinosaur Habitat with your child. Read facts about Dinosaurs using this worksheet as your child creates. When the Dinosaur Habitat is complete, let your child play!

What You Need for this Craft:

cardboard box
print the Dinosaur Facts Worksheet
various colors of paint for the ground and sky
paint brush
assorted colors of construction paper for mountains, volcanoes, and leaves
toilet paper rolls for tree trunks
copy paper and crayons to create bushes and other greenery
scissors
glue

Creating Dinosaur Habitat

Drawing of Dinosaur

This is a picture of a dinosaur eating apples from an apple tree drawn by my 4 year old.

Toy Dinosaur in Dinosaur Habitat Craft

Volcano craft

Child playing with toy dinosaur in dinosaur habitat craft

Teaching Tip: Your Dinosaur Habitat does not have to look like ours. Let your child help design the habitat. Maybe your child wants to add more mountains or more trees or another river. That's awesome! Let your child be creative!

Teaching Tip: There are so many board books about dinosaurs. A lot of preschoolers go through a dinosaur phase, so authors take advantage of that. We have checked out books about dinosaur facts and books about dinosaurs on playdates. The next time you go to your public library, see if you can find a few dinosaur books to read to your child. You can introduce the terms fiction and non-fiction to your child.

Dinosaur Facts

Dinosaurs lived a long, long time ago. There were all different kinds of dinosaurs. Some dinosaurs flew, some walked on two legs, some walked on four legs, and others would swim. There were types of dinosaurs who were small and others who were gigantic! Some dinosaurs ate meat, others ate plants, and another group ate both meat and plants. There were over 700 kinds of dinosaurs. Let’s learn about a few!

Tyrannosaurus Rex

A Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is also called a T-Rex for short, is a gigantic animal. He is about three times the size of an adult man.

This dinosaur had sharp teeth. Do you need sharp teeth to eat plants like fruits and veggies? Or do you need sharp teeth to eat meat? Yes, you need sharp teeth to eat meat. This dinosaur ate meat. Animals that eat meat are called carnivores.

Triceratops

Triceratops have 3 big horns on the front of their face. Those horns are sharp. What do you think they were used for? The horns were used in fights. Sometimes Triceratops fought other Triceratops. Sometimes they fought dinosaurs that might try to eat them, like the T-Rex.

Triceratops were not carnivores. Triceratops ate plants. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. Which dinosaur do you think had sharper teeth: a T-Rex or a Triceratops? A T-Rex for sure because triceratops didn’t eat meat. They ate plants.

Stegosaurus

A Stegosaurus was a herbivore. What kind of food did he eat: meat, plants, or both? He ate plants.

A Stegosaurus had huge horn-like plate on its back and spikes on its tail. Why did he have those? Scientists don’t really know, but some believe they may have been used to protect the Stegosaurus, kind of like armor. Would you want armor like this Stegosaurus? Why?

A Stegosaurus was a little bit smaller than a Triceratops. A Triceratops was smaller than a T-Rex, but bigger than a Stegosaurus.

Encouragement: Creating and playing with your child is also learning with your child!

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