Printable Dinosaur Hat with Facts for Little Learners

Inside: Grab a free printable dinosaur hat that features facts about dinosaurs, and promote oral language as well as some dino content!

Little kids are like sponges sometimes, soaking up facts about new things they’re interested in. There’s nothing cuter than a 4- or 5-year-old dinosaur expert! Plus, being an “expert” gives children oral language practice.

I hope this free printable dinosaur hat helps provide scaffolding (and fun!) for all your students to become little dino experts.

Printable Dinosaur Hat with Fun Facts

This hat feature six kid-friendly facts about dinosaurs:

• Dinosaurs hatched from eggs.
• We learn about dinos by digging up fossils.
• Triceratops ate plants. They had 3 horns and a neck frill.
• T. Rex was a big, smart meat-eater with short arms.
• Brachiosaurus was as tall as 2 giraffes!
• Dinosaurs are reptiles.

Skills Covered

Depending on how you present this activity, you can cover the following skills:

• Fine motor – color, cut, and glue
• Science – describe characteristics of animals and learn about life cycles
• Language – use new vocabulary, use language to convey information and answer questions.

What’s Included in the Free Printable

This printable dinosaur hat resource comes in two versions and is 4 pages long:

• Print and go version – all facts are already printed on the hat. You just need to cut it out and tape the two parts together.
• Blank version – children cut out the facts from another page and glue them onto the squares. There is a color version of the fact squares as well.

Preparation & Materials

All you need for this activity are crayons, scissors, and a glue stick.

Your level of preparation will depend on your students’ skills. You may want to cut out the crowns ahead of time for your littlest learners.

More Dinosaur Activities

If you’re looking for more activities for a dinosaur unit – or for engaging your young dino lovers, here are some more ideas and resources for you.

Dinosaur Name Activities

Children can work on letter recognition, spelling, and writing their names with this set of Dinosaur Name Activities found in my store:

Or, your kids may like these Dinosaur Personalized Emergent Readers. They feature the child’s name on every page!

You may also like the free printable dinosaur tails counting activity here on this site.

Finally, you may want a dino book to go with everything. I don’t have a list here, but I really like this list of dinosaur books for preschoolers because 1) it focuses on books that have educational value, and 2) it is written by a teacher whose own kids are completely obsessed with dinosaurs, and so she has really lived in-depth with the topic for a long time.

Happy Teaching!