Catch Me If You Can! highlights the unique features of dinosaurs, igniting a spark for creative play and repetitive readings.
Adults can sharpen their note-taking skills as they delve into researching their favorite dinosaurs.
Each of the lessons can be used alone or together to support family literacy programs:
Adult Education: Develop notetaking skills by researching dinosaurs in this engaging lesson for adults.
Parent/Caregiver Education: Bring Catch Me if You Can! to life with dramatic play as children play a fun game of hokey pokey using phrases from the story.
Interactive Literacy Activity: Learn the importance of repetition and recall for early readers.
Early Childhood Education: Get the whole family involved in a game of hide and seek using phrases from the book, Catch Me if You Can!.
Additional Activities:
After reading Catch Me if You Can!, create dinosaur feet with two empty tissue boxes. Decorate the tissue boxes with paint and paper to add scales or claws. Children can use their imaginations as they stomp in their big dinosaur feet. Imaginative play helps children to process their learning and develop social/emotional skills. Extend the activity by measuring how many dinosaur feet it takes to walk across the kitchen, living room, or outdoor space.
Create a mini-Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, or Diplodocus using empty rolls of toilet paper or paper 
towels and the provided templates. Cut out elements to create the neck, tail, and legs. Then bend the paperboard along the dotted lines to shape the dinosaur. Use paint, colored pencils, or crayons to add details to the face and body. Reenact the story of Catch Me if You Can! or develop new stories with these fun dinosaurs!
While dinosaurs lived long ago, their fossils continue to inform us about prehistoric life. Use cotton swabs or uncooked pasta, glue, and the provided dinosaur skeleton shapes to reconstruct a dinosaur fossil. Position the cotton swabs or pasta to represent the bones of the legs, tail, spine, and neck of the dinosaur. Create a skull or spikes using cut paper or markers. See the dinosaur reference booklist for books and links to websites about dinosaurs and fossils.
Create your own fossils! Take a ball of playdough and roll it out on a flat surface. Create fossil impressions using seashells to create impressions of ancient sea creatures, or hard washable toys to create unique impressions. These can also be made in cookie dough or airdry clay.
Looking for fossils can be an exciting adventure for all ages. Fill a small tub or bin with sand or beans. Then place toy dinosaurs, fake bones, airdry clay fossils, or any other fun objects deeply beneath the surface. Pretend to be paleontologists and dig with spoons, paintbrushes, and small utensils to uncover treasures!
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