These adorable dinosaurs are the perfect addition to a diorama or as a Father’s day gift to a dino-rrific dad!
Age: 4+
Duration: 10 minutes
Learning Outcomes: Integrate art and science! Exercise fine motor skills. Create adorable take-home art.
You’ll Need:
We loved dinosaurs as children and since the real things are sadly extinct, these adorable paper versions of brontosauruses are the next best thing!
The taller dinosaur is simple to fold, and can be made by students as young as four. Since origami instructions can be complicated and difficult to follow when they are written, we have created a video to show you how to fold this adorable dinosaur:
The longer dinosaur is more challenging to fold, and is more suited to older students. Here is the video with the folding demonstration:
The brontosaurus, or Thunder Lizard, was a four-legged herbivore that lived in the late Jurassic. The largest brontosaurs weighed up to 15 tons and measured up to 22 m (72 ft) long from head to tail. Historically, the Brontosaurus was believed to be too big to support its own weight on dry land, so paleontologists thought they must have lived partly submerged in water, maybe in swamps. Today, however, brontosaurs are thought to have lived just on land.
Ideas
- Once you have folded your brontosaurus, you can add them to birthday or Father’s day cards.
- Use them with our diorama boxes to add pizzazz to research and reports.
- Want to decorate your classroom? Use a hole punch to create holes in your dinosaurs, and string them on yarn to create dinosaur garlands! The 8 different designs and various color schemes of the dinosaur paper will ensure that your garlands will be bright and beautiful.
- Try using our economy origami paper to fold these dinosaurs. The smaller paper and smaller size of the finished dinosaurs makes them perfect for pop-up cards or necklaces!
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