Check out this groundbreaking list of fossil activities that are perfect for teaching kids all about fossils. Your students will love these experiments while they build a useful understanding of how fossils work.
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Fossils Activities
1. Types of fossils activity:
Fossil types can be confusing for kids. With this cool activity, your students will learn the different fossil categories and write the definition of each type next to it. The definition sheet will be glued on their notebook with an example picture.
2. Fossils pockets activity
It’s very important that your kids understand the 4 different categories of fossils. So in this activity, your students will be given a group of sentences where they will have to insert each sentence in the correct pocket.
3. Clay fossil activity: by thiscraftyfamily
Time to get the students’ hands dirty. In this fun activity, your students will create their own fossils by using soft clay, brown paint and some toys.
4. Pasta fossil activity: Kindergartenworksheetsandgames
This awesome interactive activity will allow your students to use their creativity. Every child has heard a lot of stories about dinosaurs. So, in this experiment students will use pasta, glue and construction paper to build their dinosaur fossil.
5. Drawing fossils activity: by ArtProjectforkids
Do you want an exciting activity that will help your students learn more about the different fossil shapes? In this activity, your students will have to use their imagination and choose different objects, insects, or anything else that comes to mind. Then, they will color the paper brown to make it look old and outline the fossil they chose.
6. Fossil sensory bin activity: By ABCsofLiteracy
Although this may require a little more work, your kids will love playing Paleontologist with this super fun experiment. Different shapes of fossils will be printed, laminated, and buried in a bucket full of sand. Then comes the fun part where your students will have to dig in to find the matching fossils of the images given to them.
7. DIY dinosaur dig activity: PlanningPlaytime
One of the coolest activities your students can come across is this DIY dinosaur dig activity. First, your students will have to make the sand using simple ingredients while hiding different shapes of fossils. The students will then start digging in the sand to find the mystery fossil using some excavation tools.
8. Insects in amber activity: By KindergartenWorksheetsandGames
Are your students obsessed with slime and dinosaurs? Why not combine them for the coolest lesson about fossils. In this experiment, your students will be able to create their own fossils using their cool dinosaur toys and slime.
9. Jurassic world activity: By Athriftymom
In this Jurassic world experiment, your students will have to draw and color a certain fossil using their imagination. They will then cover it with a piece of glass and add a magnet in the back of it so it will look shiny. These cool looking fossils are great for decoration for everyone to their great work.
10. Mystery fossil: By Mybaba
This activity will make your students work to find the mystery fossil. Your kids will have to use a few materials: little containers, foil, brush, plaster of paris and small toys. They will bury the toys in the mix of the plaster of paris then after it dries it will look like a small rock. Then the students will have to carefully dig in the rock to remove the object inside.