Woodland Learning Inspired by the Prehistoric World
Step into a prehistoric adventure with Forest School: Dinosaurs KS1, an outdoor learning resource from The Muddy Puddle Teacher® designed to bring the dinosaur topic into woodland and natural environments.
Through campfire storytelling, fossil exploration and creative woodland play, children develop a deeper understanding of dinosaurs and the world they lived in. These nature-based activities encourage curiosity, imagination and teamwork while helping children connect with the natural environment.
What’s Inside the Pack
This Forest School resource includes a range of practical woodland activities organised into three key areas:
Fire Circle Learning
Children gather around a safe fire circle to hear stories about how dinosaurs were discovered through fossils. Simple cooking activities such as “dinosaur egg” potatoes encourage discussion about animals that hatch from eggs and prehistoric environments.
Tool Skills and Woodland Craft
Children practise safe tool use while carving simple bone shapes, shaping clay fossils and building shelters for dinosaur eggs using sticks and natural materials.
Child-Led Exploration
Open-ended woodland play allows children to build prehistoric worlds, design volcano landscapes and follow fossil discovery trails.
The Muddy Puddle Teacher® Outdoor Toolkit
Activities are designed to use simple outdoor resources including:
Coloured ropes to create dinosaur trails and exploration areas
Bamboo canes for building shelters and structures
Clay for fossil modelling and small-world dinosaurs
Hoops for games and classification activities
Cones and loose parts for trails and imaginative play
These tools transform woodland spaces into exciting prehistoric environments for exploration and discovery.
Why Teachers Love This Pack
Encourages curiosity about science and the natural world
Builds creativity, resilience and teamwork
Supports outdoor learning and Forest School programmes
Reduces planning time with ready-to-use activities
Engages children who thrive through hands-on exploration
Perfect For
Forest School leaders
KS1 teachers
Outdoor learning coordinators
Schools exploring dinosaur topics through nature-based learning
Discover Dinosaurs in the Forest
With Forest School: Dinosaurs KS1, children explore the prehistoric world through storytelling, building and imaginative woodland adventures.
Because the best way to explore dinosaurs might just be in the forest.
