Back to School With Dinosaur Train

Back to School season is in full swing! Whether your children have started school or you’re still getting ready, there’s plenty of time to prepare and help your kids do all they can to thrive this year. PBS Kids and Dinosaur Train have some fun toys and games to help kids improve skills – and have fun!

Dinosaur Train Games Online

The Jim Henson Company and PBS Kids have some fun ideas on the Dinosaur Train website to help kids with specific skills necessary for school.

Practice reading and speaking. Help your child practice the letters of the alphabet while learning, speaking and singing about the diversity of dinosaurs that once lived on Earth with the “Dinosaurs A – Z song.”

Learn about color. Help your child understand, investigate and make predictions about the science of color, using household basics including food coloring, clean food jars/containers, colored markers and a cookie sheet. Click to play Colorful Hypothesis.

Develop fine motor skills such as coloring; cutting; drawing; buttoning; zippering; building. With Buddy’s help, you can practice some of these skills while making a Stegosaurus Puppet.

Practice gross motor skills such as running, jumping and throwing. Try “Playing Dino Ball Your Way” to improve these skills–and get some exercise too–by inventing the rules for an imaginary game and then playing it!

Explore size and scale. Using illustrations and physical markers, kids can measure out size differences in large dinosaurs to understand their size and scale! Check out the activity “Even Bigger than T.rex!” at the following link and have some fun while learning about size.

Shopping Dinosaur Train Gear

Whether or not you play the great online Dinosaur Train games, here are some fun ideas to bring the loveable dinosaurs into your home. Some of the products will bring back to school lessons to life.

Dinosaurs A to Z (Dinosaur Train) from Golden Books by Andrea Posner-Sanchez; illustrated by Terry Izumi.

I admit that this is not our first learn a dinosaur for every letter book, but we love this particular book. You meet 26 dinosaurs, with fun facts and easy to understand descriptions aided by Buddy, Mr. Conductor and other Dinosaur Train characters. This is a great addition to your library whether or not you watch the television show.

Crayola Color Wonder Dinosaur Train Coloring Pad & Markers.

Crayola mess free Color Wonder markers and coloring pads are the best. Color Wonder with Dinosaur Train? The bestest. We can take this on the go or set up the kids to color at the table and never worry about a stained couch or colored wall.

MEGA BLOKS Dinosaur Train “All Aboard the Dinosaur Train!”

The collection of Dinosaur Train products from Mega Bloks is super cool. You can purchase a single train with Buddy or Tiny all the way up to a big ol’ Dinosaur Train with Pteranodon Station set. We love this opportunity to bring the adventures on the Dinosaur Train to life in our playroom, and kids love to build, rebuild and build again.

DINOSAUR TRAIN APPAREL from Kids with Character.

Dinosaur Train’s summer line shirts and pants/shorts sets are great for back to school and available at Kohls and Kmart.

New Season of Dinosaur Train

The new seasons of Dinosaur Train started this week on PBS Kids. Check your local listings and set your DVR so you don’t miss any new episodes. You can get even more Dinosaur Train with the brand new DVD Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City available now for $9.99 on Amazon.

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