The base is beans of all kinds. It is mostly pinto beans, but I also stirred in some 12 bean soup mix to add variety and some coffee beans so it stimulates the sense of smell.
I bought the dinosaur skeletons and skulls online, the bones came from a chicken and the shells from the beach. I made the "fossil imprints" by pressing dino objects into salt dough and baking them until hard.
To add another element to the activity, I glued samples of various types of beans into an egg carton so the boys can try their sorting and classifying skills.
Lastly, I took pictures of each skeleton, skull, bone and shell and made identification sheets. I arranged them alphabetically along with images of the dinosaurs. To help Peter figure out their names I color coded the words by syllable. He gets overwhelmed reading longer words, but can easily tackle 3 and 4 letter syllables if he can see how the word needs to be broken apart. This will also be a good chance for us to discuss some of the more unusual phonetic rules like the "ch" and "ph" in Pachycephalosaurus.
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