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Dinosaur dig tuff tray

Lizz Banks
Authored by Lizz Banks
Posted: Monday, January 17, 2022 - 21:50

I love coming up with new activity ideas using dinosaurs, which are my son's favourite toys. The latest tuff tray I tried was a dinosaur dig tray.

What you need to make your Tuff Tray

  • Tuff tray
  • Toy Dinosaurs – smaller ones are better here.
  • Something to cover the dinosaurs with. I personally used old cereal, which I had blended down together after using it for another activity. You could also use things like sand, rice or real mud.
  • Brushes.

How to set up the activity

This was super simple to set up. I spread out the dinosaurs on the tray, then covered them with our cereal mixture, making sure all the dinosaurs were hidden. I then added some brushes that the children could use to gently excavate the dinosaurs with and it was ready to go.

My 5 and 6-year-old children really loved this activity and had a great time trying to find the dinosaurs and guess which ones they had as they brushed away at them.

picture of children playing with a dinosaur tuff tray activity for kids

Ways to adapt the activity

I wanted to make this a bit more challenging for my son, so I added a ‘Dinosaur dig findings sheet’ to the end of the activity. I wrote down things that had to be recorded, including how many dinosaurs they had found, how many different types of species they had found and finally, I really tested him but asking if he could name all of the species of dinosaurs.

This add-on turned the activity from a fun edible tuff tray activity that my children could get really hands-on with, to an activity where they needed to count, write and practice their spellings.

 

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Some of my other favourite tuff tray activities are:

1. Edible construction tray,  which you can find here 

picture of edible construction tuff tray activity for kids 2. Mess-free painting, which you can find here 

3. Dinosaur ice rescue, which you can find here

 

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