Past dig · Oct 5 to 10

Dinosaurs week

Bones, fossils and the giants that came before us.

Grab your hard hat

Cartoon kid in a yellow hard hat and glasses carrying a pickaxe

How old is your reader?

Showing the week for elementary.

Monday

Theme book

Little Kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs

Catherine D. Hughes

Big pictures and short facts. Great for kids who want to know every name.

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Tuesday

Theme book

Dinosaur Lady

Linda Skeers · Paperback

Mary Anning found fossils on the beach when girls weren't supposed to. A real hero.

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Wednesday

Theme book

Barnum's Bones

Tracey Fern

The man who found the first T. rex, and loved fancy suits. Funny and true.

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Thursday

Theme book

Dinosaur Bones

Bob Barner

Short and punchy, with bright cut-paper art. Count the bones together.

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Friday

Dinosaurs Before Dark

Mary Pope Osborne · Hardcover

The first Magic Tree House book. If they like it, there are dozens more.

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Saturday

Play day

Dinosaur fossil dig kit

Chip, brush and dig out the bones. Do it outside or on a big tray.

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Craft of the week · for all ages

Salt dough fossils

1. Mix 1 cup flour, half a cup of salt and half a cup of water into a dough. 2. Roll it into balls and flatten each one into a thick cookie. 3. Press a toy dinosaur's feet, a shell or a leaf into the dough to make a print. 4. Bake at 200 degrees for about 2 hours, until hard. A grown-up handles the oven. 5. Once cool, brush them with watered-down brown paint to look old.

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