Play dough and faces

I love the blank face template from twinkle!
In our room, we laminated them and are using them as play dough mats to create different faces as we learn to label emotions.
This child made a worried face :)

Play dough and numbers

Children ages 2-3 can try to roll out playdough to the shape of numbers on a mat.
You can pretend to make a wiggly worm that likes to curl into numbers :)

Learning with dinosuars

Children love dinosaurs! They really make a great classroom theme for  2-3 year olds.
Here are a few ideas that I tried and my kids enjoyed.
1)Dino world off course:
Here we also focused on construction so we added in wooden blocks and logs to let the children build towers and bridges for their dinosaurs.
If you're looking for a short term, easy-to-clean-up set up then this is perfect! We used empty boxes, moss balls, tissue paper, wooden logs and ...voila!

 The children learn about what dinosaurs eat and how they live. I heard all sorts of suggestions, like dinos should eat cars and planes :). Also some said trees and lives. We also created dino eggs and talked about how baby dinosaurs hatch from eggs.

2) Literacy with dino bones: In this activity, we painted hard paper white and cut them into bones. Besides trying to build up a dino skeleton. We thought we would build shape and letter skeletons. Look, someone made an 'A; skeleton!

3) Problem solving; How will Mummy get to baby dinosaur?
 Two dinosaurs separated by a river (you could put a blue cloth to be the river) and two boards. The children need to think about how to get across... In this case, make a bridge.

4) We printed labeled dinosaur pictures and tried to match the plastic ones to the pictures.

What are your fun dino ideas?