Digging for Dinosaurs

A friend of mine suggested this activity to me. Get some small dinosaurs and freeze them in a block of ice. Once frozen, let your kids pretend they’re archeologists…or paleontologists. I’m not sure which, but I THINK archeologists dig ’em up and give them to paleontologists to study.

Either way, the kids will get a kick out of digging them out. I added orange food coloring to the water to give it a “frozen in amber” look. This also is a teachable activity where you can explain dinosaurs and fossils. As I explained fossilization to my boys and explained that’s what we now use for gas in our cars…it hit me: That’s why the Flintstones had to use their feet. Not because they hadn’t invented motors, but because they had no fossils! Boom, mind blown.