Printable Dinosaur Cutting Practice
These printable dinosaur cutting practice worksheets can be a really fun way for kids to practice their fine motor skills while at the same time being creative. It’s building important skills they’ll need for everyday life!
These free printable cutting practice worksheets are also perfect for your dinosaur loving kids. The pictures they will be cutting out includes some of the most famous dinosaurs, and they’ll be naturally learning about each dinosaur’s features as they concentrate on cutting them out correctly.
Whether they love dinosaurs, or they’re the creative type who loves arts and crafts, then these resources are definitely for you. Read further for instructions on how to download, ideas to use them, and also some fun facts you can teach!
Our Dinosaur Cutting Practice Worksheets Include
There are 20 free worksheets that are available to download. Simply just click on each of the dinosaur pictures below and download them for free as a PDF file. Then just print them out, grab some scissors, and get busy having fun with whatever activity you choose to do with them.
What Our Dinosaur Worksheets Can Be Used For
They can easily be used in a number of different activities. In terms of arts and crafts, when your kid has practiced their cutting out one of these dinosaurs you should then task them to create a piece of artwork that uses it. They could practice their creativity by drawing or painting around it.
Or a fun crafty activity could be to make a dinosaur-themed scene. It would be perfect for a scrapbook-style mixed media project where they could use stickers, coloured paper, other pictures, or even just pencils and paint! Task them to create a realistic environment for the cut-out dinosaur – like a jungle with volcanoes in the background.
Or here are some games:
- A dinosaur scavenger hunt. Hide the cut out dinosaurs around the room and your kids must find them. You could give them hints with fun facts about the dinosaurs they’re looking for!
- Either prepare some fun facts about each of the dinosaurs (and we’re providing a few below) or get your kids to do so, and write these out. Scatter all of the dinosaurs and all of the facts on a flat surface, and get your kids to match them together. Time it for an extra challenge!
- If they’re confident they know some dinosaur facts already, then give them a category and get them to sort out all the dinosaurs according to this. For example, ‘sort the dinosaurs into their different types, like theropod and sauropod!’ Or you could do it by their diets, how long ago they lived, or even just organise them in size order from smallest to largest.
Some Fun Facts About the Dinosaurs Included in these Worksheets
Here are some fun facts about dinosaurs so you can learn while practicing your cutting!
- Dinosaurs roamed Earth for around 135 million years – the earliest humans only existed at the earliest 7 million years ago!
- Dinosaur fossils have been found on all seven continents
- Modern birds are technically a type of dinosaur! This is because they evolved from a type of dinosaur.
If you’re looking for fun facts about some of the dinosaurs included in these worksheets then look no further:
- Tyrannosaurus Rex – This carnivorous theropod is estimated to have had the strongest bite of any animal on Earth. It’s over 100 times stronger than a humans!
- Stegosaurus – Although this herbivorous armoured dinosaur was about the size of a bus, it only had a brain the size of a walnut!
- Triceratops – This herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur is estimated to have had around 800 teeth! Even more interesting is the fact they tended to wear them down and lose them, but they could grow back multiple times.
- Velociraptor – This carnivorous theropod is actually only the size of the average turkey!
- Gallimimus – This omnivorous theropod is one of the fastest dinosaurs to exist. It could run around 35 miles per hour, which is twice the speed of a fit human!
Other Fun Printables
If you want more dinosaur themed worksheets, look no further than our 3 Dinosaur Wordsearches. Great for learning more about dinosaurs as well as working on spelling and problem solving skills.
Or these i-Spy dinosaur worksheets are great for a fun way for dinosaur-loving kids to practice their counting!
If this has caught your little one’s attention and they want to learn more then check out this article to learn about 20 different dinosaurs and much more like their diets, types, and times they existed.