Dinosaur Tracks Matching Activity

As part of our “Dinosaur Day” (the one where we had a dinosaur muf­fin tin lunch) we did a dinosaur tracks match­ing activ­ity! With our plethora of plas­tic dinosaurs around the house, it was SUPER easy to do!

To make a dinosaur tracks match­ing activ­ity of your own, here’s what you’ll need:

Just 3 sup­plies: paper, paint, and plas­tic dinosaurs!

We had 3 preschool­ers par­tic­i­pat­ing, so I had a paper for each of them. I decided to have 3 dif­fer­ent sets of tracks on each paper (you could adjust the num­ber for the age & skill level of your kid­dos). So, I used 9 dinosaurs–all with dif­fer­ent gaits & track pat­terns. After decid­ing which dinosaurs would be used for each paper, I then painted the dino’s feet (a stamp pad would prob­a­bly work too)!

Stamp down those painted feet on the paper mul­ti­ple times, form­ing track pat­terns (some of the dinosaurs worked bet­ter than oth­ers, so just keep in mind that you might not get “per­fect” tracks).  Con­tinue doing this with all the dinosaurs, then wash off your dinos’ feet and let the papers dry.  Then, you’ll have papers with dinosaur tracks.

To do the activ­ity, I put all 9 dinosaurs in the mid­dle of the table, where all the kids could reach. Then, they had to try to fig­ure out what dinosaurs might have made the tracks on their papers and then match them up. It’s great for build­ing their log­i­cal rea­son­ing and match­ing skills!

Stay tuned for another fun activ­ity with plas­tic dinosaurs, com­ing soon!

Linked to: Show & Tell, *Show and Share,