We're ending dinosaur week with a book about a big feeling. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye? by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mark Teague, asks a funny question: what if a dinosaur had to say goodbye to someone it loves, just like your child?

Dinosaurs lived in a world with plenty of volcanoes, so today's snack erupts! Your little one piles fruit into a mountain, then pours strawberry yogurt "lava" over the top and watches it ooze down.

Set up the pins, roll the ball and count what falls! Today we turn the hallway into a bowling alley with five numbered cups or bottles. It's a big-movement way to practice counting to 5 on the last day of dinosaur week.

No person ever saw a living dinosaur. So how do we know what they looked like? Scientists called paleontologists act like detectives. Bones show a dinosaur's shape and size. Fossil footprints show how it walked, and even how tall it was. Rare skin prints show scales, and some fossils even show feath

What's left of a dinosaur after millions of years? Bones! Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner is a bright, rhyming book about the bones inside dinosaurs, inside us and inside the museum.

Stegosaurus is the dinosaur with the big plates along its back, and today we build one out of apples. Half an apple makes the body, thin slices make the plates, and your little one gets to eat their dinosaur when they're done.

Some fossils aren't bones at all. They're prints left behind in mud that turned to stone. Today your little one makes their own "fossils" by pressing toy dinosaur feet, shells and leaves into salt dough, then letting them dry.

When kids think of dinosaurs, they think BIG. And some were! The biggest ones, called titanosaurs, were longer than three school buses and heavier than ten elephants. But not every dinosaur was a giant. Some were only about the size of a chicken. Tyrannosaurus rex was somewhere in between: about as

What's hiding under the cups? Today we hide letter cards under upturned cups, and your little one lifts each one, says the letter and hunts for every E. It's a guessing game, a memory game and a letter game all in one.

Each page shows a pair of dinosaurs that are opposites: loud and quiet, big and small, fierce and gentle, fast and slow. The rhyming text is short and bouncy, and the ending brings all the dinosaurs together.

E is our fifth letter! It makes a short /e/ sound at the start of words like egg, elephant and elf. Sometimes E says its own name, too, like in "eat." For now, we're listening for /e/.

It's Letter E day, so snack time is all about the /e/ sound, like egg. Your little one hears the sound again and again, builds a big E on the plate and then eats it. Bonus: eggs are a dinosaur-week favorite, since baby dinosaurs hatched from eggs too.

We've counted up to 4. Today we add one more and get 5. Five is the easiest number to carry around, because it's right on your hand: five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot.

If you're starting dinosaur week with a two-year-old, start here. Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Byron Barton is a simple, bold introduction to all kinds of dinosaurs, and it's one of the first dinosaur books many kids fall in love with.

Welcome to dinosaur week! We're kicking it off with a snack that looks like a tiny dig site. Your little one layers creamy pudding and crumbly cookie "dirt" in a cup, then hides a dinosaur on top. Dinosaur Dirt Cups are messy, a little silly and a big hit at our table.

Today your little one becomes a paleontologist, a scientist who digs up fossils. We bury five toy dinosaurs in a bin of sand or rice, and they dig, dust and count until every one is found.

A full week of dinosaur activities for ages 2 to 4: dino snacks, a fossil dig, favorite dinosaur books, talk-about-it questions and free printables, all in one place.

Everything we use for Letter E in one place: a snack plate, a quick talk, a letter game, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.

Everything we use for the number 5 in one place: a quick talk, a counting game, a snack, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.