Cross-Curricular Outdoor Activities for Primary Schools
Bring the exciting world of dinosaurs to life beyond the classroom with the Dinosaurs KS1 Outdoor Learning Pack from The Muddy Puddle Teacher®. This engaging resource helps teachers deliver the dinosaur topic through active, hands-on outdoor learning, transforming playgrounds and school grounds into prehistoric landscapes where children can explore, investigate and imagine life millions of years ago.
Instead of learning about dinosaurs only through books and worksheets, pupils experience the topic through storytelling trails, fossil discoveries, creative building challenges and movement games. These activities help children develop curiosity about the natural world while strengthening literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills.
What’s Inside the Pack
This resource includes cross-curricular outdoor learning ideas across the KS1 National Curriculum, with practical activities for:
English – storytelling trails, descriptive vocabulary and dinosaur storyboards
Mathematics – dinosaur egg counting hunts, footprint measuring and pattern challenges
Science – herbivore and carnivore classification, fossil investigations and habitat exploration
Art and Design – dinosaur land art, clay fossil impressions and volcano artwork
Computing – algorithm trails, outdoor pictograms and pattern coding
Design and Technology – nest building, volcano construction and bridge challenges
Geography – prehistoric world maps and landscape exploration
History – dinosaur timelines and palaeontologist role play
Music – dinosaur stomp rhythms and jungle sound orchestras
Physical Education – dinosaur obstacle courses and egg transport relays
Languages – dinosaur vocabulary trails and action games
RE – reflection on the natural world and change over time
PSHE – teamwork challenges and cooperative problem solving
Each subject includes three detailed outdoor learning ideas, designed to be practical, engaging and easy to set up in playgrounds, fields or outdoor learning spaces.
The Muddy Puddle Teacher® Outdoor Toolkit
Activities use simple, sustainable outdoor resources, including:
Coloured ropes to create dinosaur shapes, maps and trails
Bamboo grids for storyboarding, maths investigations and timelines
Clay for modelling fossils and prehistoric creatures
Hoops for sorting, classification and games
Cones, beanbags and chalk pens for movement-based learning challenges
These tools help turn everyday school grounds into interactive prehistoric environments where learning is active and memorable.
Why Teachers Love This Pack
Reduces planning time with ready-to-use ideas
Brings the dinosaur topic to life through outdoor exploration
Encourages creativity, imagination and teamwork
Supports inclusive learning and active participation
Links directly to the KS1 National Curriculum
Perfect For
KS1 primary teachers
Outdoor learning coordinators
Schools teaching dinosaur or prehistoric topics
Topic days and cross-curricular learning weeks
Step Into the Prehistoric World
With the Dinosaurs KS1 Outdoor Learning Pack, children investigate fossils, explore prehistoric habitats and imagine what life was like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Because sometimes the best way to explore the past is to take learning outside.
