Review: Discovery Kids Dinosaur Factivity Kit @ParragonBooks

This month we got to take a look at the Dinosaur Factivity Kit.  This kit is much like last month’s kit Human Body Factivity Kit.  

This kit is $14.99 and includes a dinosaur skeleton to build and a dinosaur facts book filled with 128 colorful  pages of games, mazes and more!  There are over 50 activities in all. 

This was a HUGE hit with my dinosaur loving 5 year old!  He is a big fan of Dino Dan, and is always spouting off dinosaur facts.  This book has helped feed his curiosity and thirst for dino knowledge! 

Highly recommended for the dinosaur lover in your life! 

Disclaimer:  I received this book free from Parragon Publishing in exchange for my honest review.  I was not required to give an honest review, nor was I compensated in any other way.  All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family.  I am disclosing this in accordance with FTC Regulations.  This post contains affiliate links.

Book Review: 1000 Extreme & Extraordinary Dinosaur Facts @ParragonBooks

If you have a dinosaur fan in your house, this book is a winner!   We hadn’t had it for 2 seconds before my oldest was reading it.  The younger ones love to look at the colorful pictures too!

Information is given in bit size chunks to help keep the attention of even the shortest attention spans!

1000 Extreme & Extraordinary Dinosaur Facts (Discovery Kids) is available in Paperback for $9.99.  It’s 223 pages filled with dinosaur facts and pictures!

Disclaimer:  I received this book free from Parragon Publishing in exchange for my honest review.  I was not required to give an honest review, nor was I compensated in any other way.  All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family.  I am disclosing this in accordance with FTC Regulations.  This post contains affiliate links.

Poppins Book Nook–Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are quite popular in our house, we have a wide variety of favorite dinosaur books and we have done a lot of different dinosaur activities that I’ll be resharing with all of you!

Usborne Books has a wide variety of Dinosaur themed books for all ages.

Here are some of our favorites:

The possibilities for dinosaur activities is endless!

Comparing Weight with Dinosaur Eggs

Dinosaur Graphing

Dinosaur Matching and more

Dinosaur Pattern Blocks

Making Fossil Prints in playdough

Open and Close Dinosaur Eggs

Measuring Dinosaurs with nonstandard measurement

How big IS a dinosaur?

Dinosaur spelling

You can find even more dino activities at each link! 

We also watched Bus-a-saurus Episode and my kids had a blast with this Magic School Bus Dinosaur App (You can try the LITE version for FREE)

Check out my DINOSAUR PINTEREST Board, and we’ll have a DINOSAUR ADVENTURE coming soon at Field Trip Friday (probably next week!)

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Math Monday

Today we took Math outside, b/c we needed the space.  We took our tape measure and some chalk to find out exactly HOW BIG WAS A DINOSAUR? 

We measured out 39ft the length of a T-Rex, and C and Z each stood at one end of the line, about as long as a bus.

Then we measured how many C’s that was, answer:  10.5

Then we measured even further to see how big a Supersaurus was – 140ft, and it took us 62 mommy steps from one side to the other…and he was not even the biggest dinosaur!

We had a lot of fun with this activity, and it really helped put into perspective just how big dinosaurs were. 

Check out my Giveaway for a great book to go along with this activity!

Dinosaur Books & Giveaway!

We are in the midst of our Ten Terrific Weeks of Dinosaurs Unit Study, and I thought I would take the time to share some of the many dinosaur themed books we have used so far, AND give one of our favorites away!

These Usborne Books (and many others) can be found HERE

Now for the giveaway, I just happen to have an extra copy of HOW BIG WAS A DINOSAUR!  This is a great book, with beautiful illustrations, and has a pull out poster in the back.  We did a graphing activity using the poster, you can read about it here (and download the graph).

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Workbox Wednesday

TOT SCHOOL (28mos)

Open and Close Containers, One-to-one correspondence with dinosaurs, eggs and that infamous apricot container

A colander and some pipe cleaners

D is for dinosaur

The dinosaur nomenclature cards again, but for Z I kept one sheet whole, and cut them out (with words intact) for him to match.

Dinosaur fruit snack color sorting

KINDERGARTEN

Spelling words with letter cookies

and just because it was cute!  Little c in a workbox!

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