Dinosaur Stories

Materials:

• Paper
• Paint
• Dinosaur sponge shapes

We began this activity by reading "The Dinosaur Who Lived in my Backyard" by B.G. Hennessey then proceeded into a class discussion of what our backyards might have looked like in the time of the dinosaurs.

It soon followed that it would be really cool to make our own dinosaur scene of what we thought our backyards would look like and to make a story to go with the picture.

First we painted the background. We looked at the posters in our classroom and in many dinosaur books to see what other artists thought the world looked like then.

Next we sponge painted dinosaurs onto our background. We had to ensure that flying reptiles were flying, walking dinosaurs were walking, and dinosaurs that spent time in water, were in water. We also had to watch where we placed our dinosaurs as they were going to be the characters in our stories and the illustrations should match the stories.