Reception Dinosaurs

Transform your outdoor area into a prehistoric playground, where children explore dinosaur dens, swamps, and excavations through hands-on play and investigation. Each activity is packed with opportunities for adult and child-led learning, helping children discover how dinosaurs lived, moved, and thrived in an exciting, immersive way.

Lesson Plans

Dinosaurs outdoor enhancement plan

From dinosaur dens, to swamps and excavations, your outdoor area is going to be buzzing with dinosaur themed play opportunities! Each enhancement idea also comes with an adult led learning opportunity to demonstrate how to deepen children’s learning through hands-on explorations!

Lines of enquiry:

What was it like to be a dinosaur?
How did dinosaurs move?
What did dinosaurs look like?
What happened to the dinosaurs?

Dinosaurs outdoor activity bank

Explore the dinosaurs through outdoor learning and provide opportunities for your children to discover how they lived, investigate the ways they moved and more! All key questions and extension activities are detailed to make sharing these ideas with other staff members simple!

Lines of enquiry

What did dinosaurs eat?
How did dinosaurs look after their young?
What did dinosaurs move like?
What were different dinosaurs called?
What did dinosaurs look like?
What body parts did they have?

Reception Topic Planning Guidance

Use this guidance document alongside our planning to ensure you are able to use them in a way that works for your setting and get the most from the plans.

Before you get started

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