Show Us Your Best Dino Roar!
Create a dinosaur puppet, experiment with different roars using your voice and simple noise makers, record your best roar, and describe its inspiration.
Step-by-step guide to create a dinosaur puppet and record your best roar
Step 1
Gather all your materials on a table so everything is easy to reach.
Step 2
Choose whether to use the paper bag or the sock as your dinosaur puppet body.
Step 3
Use colouring materials to draw the dinosaur mouth nose and basic face on the puppet body.
Step 4
Cut teeth and spikes from colored paper into triangle shapes.
Step 5
Glue or tape the teeth and spikes onto the puppet where the mouth and back should be.
Step 6
Add eyes by gluing on googly eyes or drawing big eyes with your markers.
Step 7
Fill the small bottle or jar one quarter full with rice or dry beans then close and tape the lid tightly.
Step 8
Put the puppet on your hand and practice moving its mouth so it looks like your dinosaur is talking.
Step 9
Try three different voice roars one deep growl one high screech and one short snort.
Step 10
Shake your noise maker while making each roar to hear how it changes the sound.
Step 11
Record your best roar using a recording device and save the file.
Step 12
Tell or write one short sentence explaining which dinosaur or idea inspired your roar.
Step 13
Share your finished dinosaur puppet and your recorded roar on DIY.org
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
What can we use if we don't have googly eyes, colored paper triangles, or rice/dry beans?
Draw big eyes with markers instead of googly eyes, cut teeth and spikes from cardboard, foam, or felt if you lack colored paper, and fill the small bottle or jar one quarter with pasta, lentils, beads, or crumpled paper instead of rice or dry beans.
My puppet teeth keep falling off or the noise maker lid comes loose—how do I fix that?
Use strong craft glue or a glue gun with adult help and press the teeth and spikes onto the puppet until fully set, and close and tape the lid tightly with extra duct tape or wrap tape around the seam of the small bottle or jar to prevent spills.
How can we adapt this activity for younger or older kids?
For toddlers, choose the sock option, pre-cut the triangle teeth and spikes and pre-fill the noise maker and skip the recording, while older kids can decorate the paper bag with detailed faces, cut complex spikes, record multiple roars with a recording device, and write a longer dinosaur-inspired sentence to share on DIY.org.
What's an easy way to enhance or personalize our dinosaur puppet and roar?
Add fabric scraps, paint, or layered paper for texture, make three small bottles each one quarter full with different fillings to compare how the noise maker changes during your deep, high, and short roars, then record your best roar and share the puppet and audio file on DIY.org.
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Facts about puppetry and sound exploration
🦖 Dinosaurs probably didn't roar exactly like in movies — scientists think many made low rumbles or bird-like calls.
🎧 Movie dinosaur roars are often created by blending real animal sounds like lions, alligators, and elephants.
🎭 Puppetry is ancient: people have been using puppets for storytelling for over 3,000 years.
🧪 Recording and slowing a sound can reveal hidden low rumbles that make your roar sound even more gigantic.
🎤 You can change a roar's character by altering pitch, volume, and mouth shape — try whisper-growls and wide-mouthed yells!
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