The Dinosaur House: Volume 1 (The Dinosaurs)

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First, I cut the boxes apart – I needed three pieces that were aprox. 44 x 51 cm (see below for exact measurements), and four pieces that were 23 x 46cm. I wanted to make a two-storey house with a roof garden, so I used one of the dinosaurs as a measurement of how tall each storey had to be. Adding an extra floor also makes the house sturdier. Yes, please stop and visit with Dinoman Steve if you see him out in the DinoMobile. He welcomes questions and even has a small toy if you stop to say Hi! Currently there are 62 creatures featured in the Dinosaur House. That number grows during holidays and events. Syllables are a great method to learn to help with spelling and this Dinosaur Syllable Challenge from Royal Baloo is great to do with kids to work on them breaking down words and supporting learning to spell. One of the UK’s biggest and most spectacular animatronic dinosaur attractions, set in acres of natural woodland. It features 30 life-size, moving and roaring dinosaurs – a real thrill for any dinosaur adventurer!

But it’s easy to understand how Ian Moore – who with his wife Sarah, is the brains behind the venture – might have had dinosaurs roaming his head since he was a young boy. The shaded areas are the bits you need to cut out. The slits are all aprox. 0.5cm wide. I haven’t given the exact placement of the doors and windows, they just need to be roughly within the four quadrants of each piece. The only one where you would need to measure it out exactly, is the doorway on the top half of the middle piece (the second diagram in the template), so that it aligns with the floor when you slot that in. I only drew one diagram for the first piece, which you need to cut out twice, but on one of the pieces I actually replaced the doorway on the bottom with another window, as you can see in the pictures below. Why not do some copy work from the book. Choose a favourite paragraph and then use this Dinosaur Themed Writing Paper from 3Dinosaurs to work on handwriting including cursive. And here is what it all looks like slotted together – I hope you can figure out what goes where. Basically, the piece that there’s only one of is the middle piece, and the two pieces with the roof shape slot in either end of it. Then the four floors slide in to the remaining slots. I am very pleased I did. Inside was a riveting collection of dinosaur displays and enough information to fill a book about those bizarre creatures that roamed the earth for 165 million years – a figure I find impossible to get my head around.

Before your visit

World of Dinosaurs, a dinosaur park at Hertfordshire’s number 1 attraction, features thirty, moving, snapping, roaring dinosaurs. From cunning Velociraptors, to vast Brachiosaurus, from terrifying Spinosaurus to unpronounceable Pachycephalosaurus, plus of course, a mighty T Rex, they are all here! There’s a Dino Dig area too, plus lots of other Dinosaur themed treats for all the family. Classification is a big part of biology as is learning about the body. Although not our bodies dinosaur teeth are a little similar to ours for example carnivores have canines and herbivores have molar type teeth. We used this information to Sort Dinosaurs by the type of Food they ate using teeth structure. The Dinosaur House display is available for free viewing to the public from outside the main wall from sunrise to 10:00 pm. Personal tours, exhibits & games available during regular hours. The fossil activities we did were a lot of fun so we also set up a Fossil Dig Play area for the youngest who loved being a Palaeontologist discovering the skeletons and seeing if she could match them to the actual dinosaurs on our timeline.

Take a ride on our Rex Express dinosaur train, where you will meet some life-size animatronic beasts, all roaring and jostling to get your attention! Venn Diagrams take the sorting to the next level and make it possible to look at different factors. This Dinosaur Venn Diagram activity from Royal Baloo is the next step up from the simple sorting activity above.Now comes the fun part – decorating your house! While I’d recommend leaving the cutting up to an adult, the kids can totally join in with the decorating bit. I’ve pictured all the decorated sides for you below before they were slotted together, to give you an idea of what goes where. Unless you want to do all the walls of the rooms the same colour, in which case it doesn’t matter. We decided to go for different wall paper in each room, and we used wrapping paper and craft paper for this. My son helped to chose what went in which room.