Dinosaur Day ideas for OSHC
17 DIY activities for Dinosaur Day at before and after school care or vacation care. Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.
Bicarb Soda Volcanoes
Children shape a volcano around a bottle and make it erupt with bicarb soda and vinegar, exploring chemical reactions.
Lost Creatures · Dinosaur Day · Dinosaur & Unicorn Day +2Cotton Bud Dino Skeleton
Children arrange cotton buds on black card to build a dinosaur skeleton, learning how fossils show what animals looked like.
Dinosaur Day · Dinosaur & Unicorn Day · Great Race DayDino Stomp Relay
Teams stomp, roar and race like dinosaurs in a high-energy relay that gets everyone moving.
Dinosaur Day · Dinosaur & Unicorn Day · Rock and Gem Day +1Dinosaur Day Fossil Dig
A dinosaur-themed session where children dig for buried fossils in sand with brushes, then move on to dino crafts and games.
Dinosaur & Unicorn Day · Dinosaur Day · Mythical Creatures +1Dinosaur or Unicorn Crafts
Children pick a team and make dinosaur tails and fossils or unicorn horns, then show off their creations in a mini parade.
Lost Creatures · Threatened Species Day · Environmental Day +3Extinct Animal Research
Children research an extinct or endangered animal and present their findings to the group.
Volcano Day · Science Week · Science Day +2Fizzing Volcano Eruption
Children mix bicarb soda and vinegar inside a model volcano to create a foaming eruption and talk about the reaction that causes it.
Dinosaur Day · Water Play Day · Science Day +1Frozen Dinosaur Eggs
Children search for ice eggs with toy dinosaurs frozen inside, then work out how to hatch them with warm water and salt.
Tiny Things Day · Enchanted Forest · Dinosaur Day +2Jar Lid Miniature Worlds
Children build tiny fairy, dinosaur or nature worlds inside jar lids using moss, pebbles and small figures.
Lost Creatures · Science Day · Polar Day +3Mammoth Ice Melt
Children test which methods melt a block of ice fastest to free a hidden toy mammoth or animal.
Art Through the Ages · Time Travellers Day · Dinosaur Day +2Ochre-Style Cave Painting
Children paint animals and patterns on scrunched brown paper with earthy colours, exploring how early people around the world recorded life in pictures.
Volcano Day · Science Week · Long Projects Day +2Papier-Mâché Volcano Build
Children build volcanoes over a bottle frame using papier-mâché, then paint them ready for an eruption experiment.
Dinosaur Day · Rock and Gem Day · Science Week +1Plaster Fossil Excavation
Children chip and brush toy bones out of plaster blocks like real palaeontologists, then piece their skeleton together.
Dinosaur Day · Long Projects Day · Cardboard Box Day +1Prehistoric World Diorama
Children build a prehistoric landscape inside a shoebox using clay, natural materials and toy dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Day · Rock and Gem Day · Clay and Pottery Day +1Salt Dough Fossils
Children press toy dinosaurs, shells and leaves into salt dough to make fossil prints that dry hard to take home.
Raw Art Day · Clay and Pottery Day · Beach Day +1Sand Mould Plaster Casting
Children press shapes into damp sand and fill the moulds with plaster to make casts. Hands-on sculpture with real materials.
Book Week · Sensory Day · Fairy Tale Day +2Story Small-World Tray
Younger children build a small-world tray based on a favourite book using sand, figurines and natural items, then play out the story.