Build a Dinosaur {Craft Tutorial}
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I was flipping through our “Little Library Dinosuars” book with my daughter the other day and came upon an activity page. She was instantly excited to build her own dinosaur so we got to work gathering supplies.
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MATERIALS:
• Card stock (we didn’t have card stock so we used a fast food box)
• Tracing paper (optional for the artistically challenged)
• Scissors
• Paints and/or markers
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The directions suggest using tracing paper but I freehanded the basic form of the body and legs. The concept is simply cutting a slot in the body and inserting the other two pieces for legs. One set of legs is longer so your dino stands up tall. You could easily apply this format to any four-legged animal!
Take out the paints and let your little artist go to work!
This is so cute! Her dinosaur came out great, she’s quite the little artist!!
What a great craft! I would like to do this with my nephews–dinosaur lovers!
love it! so educational and fun for kids!
What a perfect indoor winter activity!
What a perfect activity for winter, too!
How cute! I’ve gotta do this with my son.
This is such a great idea! I like that you don’t need much to make this. My nieces would love to make this especially getting to personalizing it by painting or coloring it.
How cute my daughter would enjoy making a dinosaur!
cute idea
my grandsons would love to do this ,they all love dinosaurs
Fun idea, I will have to try this with my daughter.
That is a great idea that would work for kids of varying ages! The older ones can cut out the shapes and kids of all ages can decorate/color the dinosaur. I think we are going to do this at our mom group’s next kid’s craft. Thank you for sharing!
So fun! I would have loved this when I was a kid! My daughter is a little young, but soon we will be making this! Thanks for sharing!
Her dinosaur turned out so cute!!! What a simple craft, but definitely one that my boys would enjoy doing!
That’s really cute and I love that you didn’t have to go out and buy a bunch of expensive materials. How creative!
Awesome! I want to try this. I bet we could build lots of dinosaurs in all different colors and have a dinosaur village. Thanks!
I love this! I can’t wait for my little man to be old enough to craft and do this kind of stuff—wait, yes I can!!! I have lots of baby snuggles to get in before then 🙂
Thanks for the fun post 🙂
My son would LOVE this, thanks for the idea!
I think I would end up doing most of the work myself lol But I do think my 3 year old would like to paint it, he likes to paint anything!
Too cute! My toddler is still at the stage where he’d just rip the cardboard, but I’ll have to try this when he’s a bit older!