These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. See a page about color mixing to see how to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow.
Click on any of the crafts to go to the instructions. Have fun!
Dinosaur Crafts
Make a papier mache dinosaur bone from a cardboard tube and newspaper.
You can print out this dinosaur calendar and color the pages.
Your fingers are the legs of these simple paper puppets. Make dinosaurs and nursery rhyme characters.
A dinosaur book you can print out and color in.
Create a fierce Tyrannosaurus rex out of paper, cardboard, glue, scissors, and crayons.
Make a dinosaur scene in a box. Print out the dinosaurs, then color, cut, and paste them in a decorated box.
Make a huge dinosaur egg that you can decorate and later hatch.
Print out dinosaur templates to make stuffed dinosaurs.
Make papier-mâché dinosaur hats using balloons, newspaper, flour-water paste, and paint.
Make a Stegosaurus cake from a round cake.
Print out dinosaur valentine cards to color and give to your friends.