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Alexa's Dinosaur Club
While everyone was making sourdough bread and watching Tiger King, Alexa became the president of an online Dinosaur Club! Here is where you can find all the free printables created for the club. We hope you like them!
Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus
March's dinosaur is actually not a dinosaur at all but a pterosaur named Quetzalcoatlus. Pterosaurs are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as many dinosaurs. Quetzalcoatlus is from the late Cretaceous period. It was the largest creature ever to fly!
They were first discovered in 1971 by graduate student Douglas A. Lawson. He named it Quetzalcoatlus in 1975 after the Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl who was depicted as a feathered serpent.
Quetzalcoatlus was as tall as a giraffe and had the wing span of a private plane! They were likely scavengers though it's possible they ate small creatures as well.
Make your own Quetzalcoatlus by printing out the PDF below!
MATERIALS:
-Crayons, color pencils or markers (or even paint if your grownups are ok with it!)
- Scissors
-String
- Glue or Tape
- A stick such as a pencil or skewer.
DIRECTIONS:
- Color your Quetzalcoatlus however you'd like.
- Carefully cut out the body and wing pieces
- Fold the wings on the dotted lines and glue them to the body
- Poke a hole where indicated and tie your string through
-Tie the other end of your string to your stick and voila!
Skeleton
Q-Tip Dino Skeleton
Make your own Metriacanthosaurus skeleton model with black paper and cotton swabs!
This will be a great chance to give your white color pencils or crayons a fun job too 😃.
Draw a Dinosaur outline (or download and cut out the stencil below)
Cut the cotton swabs down to the size you need for the skeleton. Be sure to save all the small pieces you cut off for the tail 😉
Glue down your cotton swabs and allow it to dry.
Then add details with your white color pencil or crayon. You could also cut out the skull from the stencil to use in your skeleton model!
You can watch the January Dinosaur Club Meeting HERE to see how Moddy put together the sample piece Alexa is holding in the picture.
Have fun! Send us a picture when you're done. We'd love to see it 😊 ModdyPuppets@gmail.com
Live-Streams
The First Play Date
Our first interactive online puppet show took place on Thursday April 9th 2020 during the Corona Virus Pandemic. As everyone sheltered in place, Alexa the puppet invited her friends over for a play date via Instagram! This is a recording of the Live Stream where Alexa showed us her room, her toys, and her projects as we sang songs and played together.
On our second play date we made pipe cleaner animals and learned an outdoor game (that we played indoors) ----->
Pop - up Dinosaur Cards
Learn to make Dinosaur pop-up cards along with Alexa!
Donuts and Drawings
Alexa was feeling pretty bummed out about the Shelter-in-place order, so we found ways to cheer ourselves up with a magnetic ice-skaters craft and doing something nice for others too.
Our first Ever Dinosaur Club meeting!
The first Wednesday of the month is a meeting of the Dinosaur Club. After introducing the Dino of the Month, we do a Dino-themed craft (a safari vest made out of a paper grocery bag) and sing a Dino song.
Alexas joke-stravaganza
Alexa's in the mood to play dress-up! And she's feeling really silly, so prepare for jokes galore!