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Dinosaur Pasta Skeletons

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Dinosaurs Theme, Play Dough Activities

Here are two ways to make dinosaur pasta skeletons with your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten students.

Dinosaur Pasta Skeletons

Dinosaur Pasta Skeleton #1

First, download the printable skeleton at the link below, and cut out the pieces. Children will assemble and glue the paper pieces of the dinosaur skeleton to a piece of construction paper (12×18 size), and glue dry pasta on the skeleton.

Dinosaur Pasta Skeleton Printable

The pasta pieces you will need are:

  • Shell: for the skull
  • Rigatoni: for the legs
  • Fettucini: for the ribs
  • Elbow (Macaroni): for the neck, backbone, and tail

Download: Dino Skeleton

Skeleton Printable

The above activity and printable are reprinted here with permission from the owner of the former site “Kindernet Online”

Dinosaur Pasta Play Dough Skeleton #2

Children pretend to be paleontologists who have discovered bones (the pasta) in the ground. We have to figure out how to put the bones together to make a dinosaur. Have children mash play dough flat on a plate. For younger children, its a good idea to use a dinosaur-shaped cookie cutter to make the outline of a dinosaur in the play dough. Then press pasta shapes (bones) into the play dough inside the outline to make a skeleton.

Dinosaur Pasta Skeleton with Play Dough

Model Magic or self-hardening clay would also work well. The pasta can be removed and the children will see the imprint left in the play dough, which is like a fossil.

Dinosaur Play Dough Skeleton Fossil

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