Materials
magazine or catalog pictures of a variety of different hairstyles
playdough or modeling clay
small balls (Ping-Pong balls)
Instructions
1. Ask the children what dinosaurs looked like. Talk about fossils and how
scientists use them to gain information about dinosaurs. Explain that skin
does not usually become petrified; fossils are most commonly the hard parts
of dinosaur bodies (claws, teeth, plates, shells, and bones). Therefore,
scientists do not know the actual colors or skin textures of most dinosaurs.
Artists use their own ideas when they illustrate them. Show the children
some examples from books.
2. Encourage children to use textured objects and crayons to make rubbings
on coloring pages of dinosaurs to create skin textures and colors.
Demonstrate how to make different rubbings on different body parts or how
to layer colors on one dinosaur.
