Dinosaur MEASURE-SORT Kids Activities

Dinosaur MEASURE-SORT Montessori Pre-K Kids Activities are designed for preschoolers and kindergartners to develop spacial awareness, sorting, classifying, and measuring skills through engaging invitations to learn.

Calling all toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners to sort and measure fascinating reptiles with fun Montessori Dinosaur MEASURE-SORT Pre-K Kids Activities! Trust me, your little one will love these hands-on invitations to learn as little hands explore and classify DINOSAUR friends! Besides, you can easily modify this activity if your little one is not a dino fan! You can substitute dinosaurs for any animal figurines, or food items, toys, transportation, and more! Use what you have and follow your child’s interest! The goal is to set an engaging activity that captivates your little one’s attention while s/he is developing fine motor control, numeracy, and reasoning skills.

DINOSAUR SIZE SORTING

As a part of this Dinosaur MEASURE-SORT Kids Activities series, here is an easy DIY SIZE-SORTING invitation to learn you can set up in less than five minutes!
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YOU’ll NEED:
– recycled cardboard
– a marker
– dinosaurs
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SKILLs:
– hand-eye coordination
– fine motor control and dexterity
– SPACIAL AWARENESS
– sorting and classifying
– language development LARGE, MEDIUM, SMALL (I wrote ‘big’ instead of ‘large’ since I also wanted to visually emphasize the word’s size and the word “large” would not have fit in large font, but feel free to use the word LARGE instead)

EARLY CLASSIFYING SKILLS

Did you know that the developmental milestone to learn to CLASSIFY objects emerges at about 18 M when your toddler is using brainpower to sort favorite toys! So, start EARLY ON by offering engaging and stimulating invitations to sort!

You can see this post on Instagram HERE

WHY SPACIAL AWARENESS is IMPORTANT!

Our visual and tactile perception consists of understanding HOW objects are situated in space. Thus, gaining an understanding of the attributes of those objects such as relative size, which can be a distinguishing characteristic, is a key to mastering this important skill. Moreover, classifying objects into categories, with Montessori inspired Pre-K invitations to learn, allow children to mentally and physically organize things in their world.

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MEASURING DINOSAURS

Any DINO fans? Well, with this Montessori inspred Pre-K invitation to learn, you can measure ANYTHING! Besides, NO RULLER is required! Do you have cars or trucks? What about teddy bears, dolls, animal figures, even food?!
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YOU’ll NEED:
– manipulatives you will be using to measure WITH (we are using  LEGO Duplo but you can also use small blocks)
– we are measuring dinosaurs
– numerals

AGE 2.5Y + Always supervise your child!
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We have been doing this activity since Adrian was about 2.5 yr – at that age, skip the numeral identification part!
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SKILLs:
– hand-eye coordination
– fine motor control & dexterity
– numeracy abs measuring skills
– sorting and classifying
– language development: large, medium, small
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You can see this activity on Instagram HERE.⠀

WHY LEARNING TO MEASURE is SO IMPORTANT

Toddlers apply concepts of measurement in many everyday tasks when they compare sizes of toys, lengths of trains, and even portion of food being served. And early on, while exploring ways to compare, they use non-standard measurement tools such as hands or feet to estimate length, and offering them blocks or LEGO prices is a great alternative! Thus, by developing the abilities to compare two or more objects, children learn to understand that objects can be measured in different ways!

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LAND AIR WATER SORT

Your little one will LOVE sorting objects by water, land, and air! Besides, the best part is that you can sort what you have! Sort forest animals, transportation, Savanna animals, insects etc. Use your child’s interests as a guide!

YOU’ll NEED:
– recycled cardboard
– 3 color- felts (optional) or just draw on a cardboard with a marker
-animal figurees

AGE 15M + Always supervise your child!

SKILLs:
– hand-eye coordination
– fine motor control & dexterity
– matching, sorting and classifying
– language development

You can see this activity on Instagram HERE.

MATCHING SKILLS

Developmental milestone to learn to match objects emerges from age 15 -19 M when your soon-to-be toddler is using brainpower to match favorite toys! Sorting is also an amazing tool to enhance problem-solving, critical thinking, and spatial awareness (think of it as a DIY puzzle ), so don’t underestimate the power of sorting through PLAY!

FOR MORE SORTING Montessori Pre-K Invitations to Learn

See HERE AIR-LAND-WATER-SORTING.

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FOR MORE Dinosaurs Kids Activities

See HERE our ENTIRE DINO Unit Study

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Please, always supervise your child.

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