![]() that I imagine the girls and I will go back often to the basketball courts just for this. This turned out to be such an awesomely fun activity in itself. ![]() I turned the actual T-Rex drawing over to Matt-he's so skilled, and I'm so not, that it just seemed ridiculous to muddle through it myself, but if you're not super-skilled at drawing, yourself, you can also make yourself a big grid on the basketball field and a small grid over your picture, and copy-but I brought our artist's chalk set so that the girls could decorate their own chalk outlines while Matt worked: ![]() The girls wanted to do a T-Rex-about 40 feet long. With that and a tape measure, you and some kiddos can measure out the length and height of a dinosaur (don't even try to do a diplodocus, though-it's almost as long as a football field). A good dinosaur encyclopedia will give the length of every dinosaur, and will either give its adult height, or will show a small picture of it next to a person outline so that you can estimate its height. You also have to have with you a very good dinosaur encyclopedia (we have four). This is terrific fun in itself, because you can measure them and compare them and stomp on their heads, etc. Along with plenty of sewing, gardening, a drive-in movie, a visit from a friend, and enough rain to wash away our plans of building a bonfire in the backyard and teaching the girls how to cook hotdogs on sticks, I carved out some time to gather Matt and the girls at the local park for a project that I have been dying to do forever: life-size dinosaur drawings.įirst, we lay down on the basketball court and outlined our bodies in sidewalk chalk:
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