Bones, Bones Dinosaur Bones Activity mat For Kids

Our themed activity mats are a great way to practice numerous skills in a fun hands one way all in one place. These mats can be as simple or as creative as you would like. I love actually drawing out a shape, and our B is for Bones activity mat for our Dinosaur Preschool theme just screamed “Turn me into a bone.” and that is just what I did.

Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones Activity Mat

I love using activity mats to practice the skills that my children are studying at that particular time. You can use the ideas I have included on our as a reference for your own, but know that you can make it your own. You can read about how I set up activity mats here. 

Dino Bones Activities

Here is a look at the activities that I included for my toddler as we learned about dinosaurs. 

Qtip Dino Skeletons

Can I just say how awesome it was to watch as Little Miss 3 constructed her dinosaur. Each qtip she laid down was intricately placed and was definitely planned. Little people sure can teach you so much just by watching them. While I left this activity open ended, you could draw an outline of a dinosaur for your children to match the qtips up to if you feel that would better suit your children. 

Color the Letter B

Since we were learning the letter Bb for Bones that was the focus letter for our activity mat. I traced out a Bubble Letter Bb and Miss 3 colored it in. 

Trace It

For this section Miss 3 practiced tracing the letter Bb and the number 2, our focus letter and number for the week. I dotted out the letters and number for her to trace. 

Dinosaur Bone Puzzle

For this activity I use our salt dough dinosaur bones I created to use with our Dinosaur sensory bin and then traced those onto the mat. Miss 3 then had to match the dinosaur bones to the outlines on the mat. 

Dab the Letter Bb

I wrote numerous different capital and lowercase letter Bbs on the page as well as various other capital and lowercase letters. Miss 3 used a Dot marker to find and dot each of the letter Bbs. This activity is wonderful for practicing visual discrimination, an vital early learning skill. You can even have your children dot the capital and lowercase letters with different colors of dot markers to further differentiating between the two. 

Build Bb With Playdough

Our focus color this week was purple so we used purple playdough to create the capital and lowercase letter Bb. I went ahead and wrote the letters on the mat and Miss 3 used playdough logs to trace the Bb.

 Our tiny tot (16 months) wanted in on the activity mat action so after sister is done with the activities, he gets to use the supplies and do his own "activities" on the sheet, aka scribble until his little heart is content. Miss 3 also added her own activities like tracing all the letter Bbs and writing some of her own. 

These activities are some of my most favorite things to do and I am excited to see how we can use them as the kids get older. (And there's always a cup somewhere close.)