A dinosaur theme offers many great avenues for art lessons. Students can make their own dinosaur bones by gluing dry pasta to construction paper in dinosaur bone shapes. Students can dream up their own "shoeasaurus" by tracing around their shoes on pieces of paper and turning the shape into a dinosaur with a variety of art supplies. Salt dough is easy to mix up and is perfect for students mold dinosaurs that they can paint.
Print out dinosaur shapes for students to color in, cut out and glue to Popsicle sticks to make simple puppets. A large box becomes a puppet theater when decorated with pictures and drawings of a dinosaur habitat. Students can take turns using their puppets to make plays about dinosaurs.
A dinosaur theme is the perfect time to introduce science into your preschool lesson plans. Several weeks prior to the theme, immerse a boiled egg in vinegar. The pickled egg will feel rubbery, like a dinosaur egg might have. Students can talk about how dinosaurs laid eggs, like birds.
Dinosaurs were big. Your students can start to understand just how big with a simple math lesson. Tell students how many feet long a really big dinosaur was, then pull out a piece of yarn cut to this length. Stretch the yarn down a long hallway and have students lay end to end along it to see how many students it takes to make up the length of a dinosaur.