In the footprints of dinosaurs

It was just Gil at home this Friday; he's learning about dinosaurs at school, so we decided to have a dinosaur day.

This began with a dinosaur stomp around the prehistoric woods.

We spotted a Brachiosaurus, a type of pterosaur, a Plesiosaur in the water whose baby had got stuck in a pipe, and although luckily we didn't actually see the Tyrannosaurus Rex, we saw trampled down tree roots where it may have been running.

When we got home, we did our research about the dinosaurs and reptiles that we had seen by reading, Harry and the Dinosaurs at the Museum, How do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, The Super Swooper Dinosaur, Lift the Flap Dinosaurs and Gil even read me Ten Little Dinosaurs.

One of our paleontologist pals told us about a 4 year old who had discovered a dinosaur footprint a couple of weeks ago so we thought we'd better do our bit for science by seeing if we could find out which dinosaur the foot belonged to. After intensive investigation involving all his dinosaur reference books and online, Gil concluded that it must be the footprint of a Comsognathus. We'll be informing the scientists of our findings.

Gil also made his own dinosaur footprints in the garden (as a surprise for Ferdy and Billy), labelled his favourite reptile, put all his toy dinosaurs in their rightful habitats and of course, finished the day by drawing Indominus Rex with his beloved Art For Kids Hub.