Making Dinosaur and Shell Fossils

Yesterday we made salt dough for fossils. 

We used salt, water and flour.  The students are always eager to help make

and prepare for our lessons.  We wanted to make fossils to see what a Paleontologist

finds and what they looked like.  So... our students founds different objects in our room

like shells, small dinosaurs and plants to press into the dough.  We had to press 

them into the dough to make a print but carefully pull them off as not to rip

 and put a hole in the dough. We put them into the oven to dry out and then we 

painted them the next day.  Our fossils look great!!  Thank you to our photographer 

Ilee who took our pictures for us as Mrs. Osborne was helping with the 

measuring.  What a great hobby this could be, way to go Ilee.