We keep the house in the living room, as their play room is already full with plenty of other toys to play with. So when we are hanging out in the living room as a family, we can just pull it out and slot it together, and they just need to bring their box of dinosaurs through. And when they are finished playing, it easily comes apart again and takes up next to no space. I am very pleased I did. Inside was a riveting collection of dinosaur displays and enough information to fill a book about those bizarre creatures that roamed the earth for 165 million years – a figure I find impossible to get my head around. Yes, please stop and visit with Dinoman Steve if you see him out in the DinoMobile. He welcomes questions and even has a small toy if you stop to say Hi! First, I cut the boxes apart – I needed three pieces that were aprox. 44 x 51 cm (see below for exact measurements), and four pieces that were 23 x 46cm. I wanted to make a two-storey house with a roof garden, so I used one of the dinosaurs as a measurement of how tall each storey had to be. Adding an extra floor also makes the house sturdier.

On average the Dinosaur House gets over 40,000 visitors every year from all over the globe. Halloween is the most popular day to visit the Dinosaur House. But it’s easy to understand how Ian Moore – who with his wife Sarah, is the brains behind the venture – might have had dinosaurs roaming his head since he was a young boy.Currently there are 62 creatures featured in the Dinosaur House. That number grows during holidays and events.

Syllables are a great method to learn to help with spelling and this Dinosaur Syllable Challenge from Royal Baloo is great to do with kids to work on them breaking down words and supporting learning to spell. Venn Diagrams take the sorting to the next level and make it possible to look at different factors. This Dinosaur Venn Diagram activity from Royal Baloo is the next step up from the simple sorting activity above. The final step was to add duct tape around all the edges, to stop them from fraying. I’d bought some coloured duct tape for this, as I thought it would look for colourful and fun, but you could use other tape too. (I’ve actually just noticed that a piece of tape on the roof is coming off, in the most recent photos I took, so I must fix that! This dinosaur house has had a lot of love!)The fossil activities we did were a lot of fun so we also set up a Fossil Dig Play area for the youngest who loved being a Palaeontologist discovering the skeletons and seeing if she could match them to the actual dinosaurs on our timeline. Spelling all the dinosaur names can be “interesting” however, you can help your child to learn them first by making these Dinosaur Name Spelling Puzzles and then looking at the names of dinosaurs and deciphering their origin in Greek and Latin– it’s a great way to help children learn new vocabulary as the words are in common use now. World of Dinosaurs, a dinosaur park at Hertfordshire’s number 1 attraction, features thirty, moving, snapping, roaring dinosaurs. From cunning Velociraptors, to vast Brachiosaurus, from terrifying Spinosaurus to unpronounceable Pachycephalosaurus, plus of course, a mighty T Rex, they are all here! There’s a Dino Dig area too, plus lots of other Dinosaur themed treats for all the family.