Dinosaurs
All the Ways to Play:
Pretend you are going to search for dinosaurs as your little one steers and navigates around your driveway with their feet. Great for increasing full body strength and coordination. Perfect for 2+ years.
Functional Language: stop, go, rawr, dinosaur, car, beepIntroduce these eggs around 18 months to work on imitation skills (i.e. “cracking” the egg) and motor coordination to pull the egg halves apart. Then transition to matching, putting together, and color sorting as your little one gets older. There are so many ways to play with these eggs!
Functional Language: egg, crack, dinosaur, rawr, colors, yes, no, matchPass toy truck back and forth with your 1-year-old. Model moving small cars back and forth while labeling “vroom vroom.” Transition to more open-ended play as little on gets older.
Functional Language: vroom, car, dinosaur, beep beepThese matching dino halves are great for babies of all ages. Babies can start by grasping dinos and bringing them to their mouth or passing them back and forth between hands, then move to pulling apart/pushing together, and color sorting and matching as they get older!
Functional Language: dinos, colors, apart, togetherLarge magnetic pieces are perfect for increasing fine motor skills and bilateral coordination. Use the box as a model or let your little one create their own scene with the tiles.
Functional Language: more, build, tiles, together, apart, dinosaursThis is a fun activity for increasing handwriting grasp strength and coordination. Practice pushing the sticker pen down on the paper to make the sticker appear! Great for restaurants or traveling!
Functional Language: sticker, dinosaur, rawr, pushSet the scene with this engaging rug. Practice imitation skills as you walk the dinosaurs along the pathways, swim in the water, and fly over the volcano.
Functional Language: dinosaurs, fly, walk, stomp, swim, up, aroundThese dinosaurs are perfect for more open-ended pretend play, plus it comes with built-in storage! Model different actions with the dinosaurs, like stomping, jumping, flying, and running, then PAUSE and wait for your little one to imitate your actions.
Functional Language: stomp, fly, jump, stomp, run, dinosaur, rawrStrengthen hand-eye coordination by pulling trains apart and pushing them back together. Model “choo-choo” as you drive the train down the track, PAUSE and wait for your little one to imitate you.
Functional Language: choo-choo, train, more, dinosaur, stop, goInteractive Dinosaur Sound Book:
Perfect interactive experience. Your toddler will love finding the matching dinosaur figure and sound button for each page! Imitate the dinosaurs’ different sounds and talk about how each one is different.
Functional Language: dinosaur, roar, colors, descriptive words, book, turn pageThis is a great interactive fine motor toy for little ones 18+ months. Practice pushing the scales in and pulling them out again. Pro tip: turn the dino in different directions so your little one has to rotate their wrist to get the spike into the slit!
Functional Language: in, out, push, pull, dino, colorsMontessori Dinosaur Egg Puzzle:
Hide and discover baby dinosaurs by putting the puzzle together and back apart again. Help your little one twist the oval eggs to fit them into their spot when hiding the dinosaurs. Great for 18+ months.
Functional Language: dinosaur, on, off, egg, “Where is the dinosaur?”, “Dinosaur, where are you?”
How to Set the Play Scene:
You have your dinosaurs and the books to match, but how do you set them up for play? Our Ways to Play Guides can help with that!
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If your little one loves dinosaurs, be sure to check out our bugs, animals & outer space pages, too!
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