Fossils For Kids
Our fossils for kids collection has items selected especially to delight the young paleontologist in your life. Easy on your budget too. We also have lots of resources for information about fossils and geologic time so they can continue learning. See below.
Childrens' Books on Fossils Fossil Books for Kids Set 3 The Fossil Record: Life Turned to Stone
Fossils for kids is a great way to inspire wonder and life long learning. You can spark their imagination and natural curiosity and you don't need to be a paleontologist to do it. I have ben sharing fossils with children for over 30 years as an elementary school teacher. It takes the work out of teaching and makes learning fun. It is the reason we created this website.
The key is to capture their imagination, to bring a sense of wonder and inspire them to satisfy their natural curiosity. Handing a child a rock that holds the form of an animal that lived 400 million years ago with a short story about how it came to be will do just that!
Kids LOVE dinosaurs! Which is a great lead-in to fossils for kids. Fossils are the reason we know about those giant ancient beasts. For kids, the bigger, more ferocious the dinosaur the better.
Getting kids hooked on fossils and fossil collecting has incredible benefits for their young lives. First of all, kids between the ages of 5 or 6 and about 12, literally want to know something about nearly everything. Holding a REAL fossil of a creature that lived 70 or 80 or 450 million years ago can really light them up! Their imaginations, which are far bigger than their little bodies would suggest, will take them backwards in time to an ancient scene that they will want to know everything about: the climate, the plants, the animals, the shape of the continents….truly, there are endless possibilities for learning and creating stories.
What is a fossil?
What is Geologic Time?
How are fossils formed?
