Digging Up Dinosaurs

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Materials

Sandbox with sand 12 small plastic dinosaurs

Egg carton

Instructions

1. After talking about dinosaurs, hide twelve plastic dinosaurs in the sand.

2. Talk to the children about how archeologists dig for dinosaur bones.

3. The children take turns finding dinosaurs.

4. When all the dinosaurs have been found, there should be one dinosaur in each egg cup in the egg carton.

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