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Cotton Bud Dino Skeleton
Children arrange cotton buds on black card to build a dinosaur skeleton, learning how fossils show what animals looked like.
How to run it
- Show pictures of dinosaur skeletons.
- Give each child black card and cotton buds.
- Arrange and glue the buds into a skeleton shape, cutting some shorter for small bones.
- Label the dinosaur and display the fossils.
You will need
- cotton buds
- black card
- PVA glue
- scissors
- dinosaur pictures
Make it easier or harderGive younger children a template to follow; older children can label the bones.
My Time Our Place · Outcome 4Children explore palaeontology while building fine motor skills.
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