20+ Dinosaur Games for Preschoolers
Are you planning a dinosaur themed unit for your preschoolers? Then you will want to check out these 20+ preschool dinosaur activities and printable games. These hands-on dinosaur learning activities for kids include number recognition and counting; letter recognition, process art, play dough and more!
The Best Dinosaur Games for Kids
Dinosaur activities for preschoolers are a classic in the early years, Even toddlers love dinosaur activities! And rightly so. There are so many fund dinosaur games and songs to keep our little ones curious.
When my last three boys were preschool aged, it felt like we were doing dinosaur activities non-stop.
We made dinosaur footprints out of construction paper. We dried out turkey bones and added them to a cloud dough sensory bin to pretend they were actually dinosaur bones in a dinosaur dig. We used pastel Easter eggs for dinosaur eggs, which really worked their fine motor skills. We even made dinosaur fossils using salt dough, and made a dinosaur play dough small world.
All you need are a few toy dinosaurs, and preschoolers will be stomping like dinosaur feet, begging for more!
FAQs on Teaching Preschoolers about Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are fascinating, and preschoolers love pretending to be paleontologists–so let them! It makes a great dramatic play center.
When teaching a dinosaur preschool theme, it’s even more important to provide hands-on activities. Offer plenty of dinosaur toys. Create dinosaur small worlds for pretend play or use a “dinosaur skeleton” in a sensory bin. Make fossils in play dough. Do artwork and sing dinosaur songs. And of course, read lots and lots of picture books!
A simple way to explain dinosaurs to children is to tell them the word dinosaur means “terrible lizard” and that dinosaurs are reptiles like snakes and lizards.
Preschoolers can learn pretty much everything about dinosaurs. They can learn that some ate plants and other ate meat, the variety in size of dinosaurs, that some had lizard-like skin while others had feathers. They can also learn how they moved, about predators vs. prey and about fossils.
20+ Dinosaur Activities for Preschoolers
Preschoolers are fascinated by dinosaurs! Check out these 20+ dinosaur games and activities to teach your young learners all about dinosaurs. These dinosaur themed activities will also help them learn math and literacy skills.
Dinosaur Math Games
These dinosaur math games will help your preschoolers learn number recognition, counting and one to one correspondence.
FREE Dinosaur Number Recognition Games
This bright, colorful, and playful dinosaur counting game is sure to appeal to your dinosaur lover and keep them engaged and excited to learn!
Dinosaur Math Graphing
This dinosaur graphing game is a wonderful way to build your preschool child’s early math skills with a motivating dinosaur twist.
Dinosaur Board Game Counting Activity
This dinosaur board game math activity is a fun way for kids to practice counting, addition and more.
Dinosaur Fossil Counting Puzzles
If you have little kids who are dinosaur fans, you will definitely want to grab this printable puzzle.
Dinosaur Shapes Game for Kids
This is a fun dinosaur game for preschoolers to play with play dough and learn shapes!
DIY Dinosaur Tangrams
Building dinosaurs with tangrams is a great math activity in reinforcing children’s awareness of shapes, but it is also an exercise in abstract thinking.
Dinosaur Counting Grid Game
Kids will love this fun dinosaur counting grid game! Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners who need practice counting.
Dinosaur Letter Games
Preschoolers will have so much fun practicing letter recognition with these fun dinosaur letter games.
Editable Dinosaur Theme Board Game Printable
This editable dinosaur theme board game is perfect for your dinosaur themed units! Use it to teach sight words, letter identification, letter sounds, math facts and more!
Hatching Dinosaur Eggs Initial Sound Match
This free printable dinosaur themed activity can easily be added to a literacy center or used as a reusable busy bag at home.
Dinosaur Letter Hunt
A fun and easy dinosaur letter recognition activity for toddlers and preschoolers! This is a great activity to do outdoors on a nice day or inside on a rainy day!
Dinosaur Letter Recognition Activity
Learning the ABC’s is super fun with this Dinosaur Letter Recognition Activity! Your preschoolers will have fun naming the capital and lowercase letters as they bravely feed the dinosaur!
Dinosaur Egg Alphabet Match
This dinosaur egg alphabet match can be set up for young children to play different ways to fit their individual learning needs. Add some kinetic sand to this activity for a sensory piece.
Dinosaur Letter Tracing for Preschoolers
This Dinosaur Letter Tracing for preschoolers busy bag is a great example of this! Practice letter formation, letter recognition, and even letter sounds without lifting a pencil.
Dinosaur Letter Matching Game
This dinosaur letter matching game can be used to help preschoolers to recognize and match upper and lower case letters.
Dinosaur Themed Art Activities
You'll want to be sure to include these fun dinosaur themed process art activities in your preschool lesson plans about dinosaurs.
Make Stamped Dinosaur Art with Preschoolers and Toddlers
This dinosaur art activity for preschoolers is so fun! You’ll be surprised at what we used to make the colorful scaly pattern.
Dinosaur Footprint Art
Get stomping, stamping or printmaking with a fun process art activity that uses toy dinosaurs as paintbrushes!
Dinosaur Activities for Fine & Gross Motor Skills
Here are 2 fantastic activities for preschoolers to practice fine motor and gross motor skills within a fun dinosaur theme.
Gross Motor 10 Little Dinosaurs Song with FREE Printable
This version of the 10 Little Dinosaurs song isn’t your traditional “10 Little ____” song. It teaches counting and new vocabulary and is full of gross motor fun! Every dinosaur theme needs a circle time song like this!
Dinosaur Washing Fine Motor Activity
Grab some paint and plastic dinosaurs for this fine motor activity. Simply paint the dinosaur and then scrub off the paint to make them brand new again!
Dinosaur Lesson Plans
These preplanned dinosaur lesson plans for toddlers and preschoolers has everything you need to teach early learners all about dinosaurs in a fun, hands-on way.
Dinosaur Activities for Preschool Lesson Plans
Do you have a little paleontologist in your classroom? Then these dinosaur activities for preschool are just what you need.
Dinosaur Theme Preschool Lesson Plans
This dinosaur themed unit is designed specifically for preschool and pre-kindergarten students!
Add Some Dinosaur Picture Books!
These dinosaur activities for preschool are sure to bit a hit among your little paleontologists! Toddlers and preschoolers alike will love learning all about dinosaurs with these sensory activities, art projects and printable games.
Dinosaur Games for Toddlers
These dinosaur activities were designed specifically for toddlers to develop all the right content areas for our youngest learners. Click the image below to learn more!
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.