Last week I worked with groups of 4 to 5 year old children at St Josephs School in Poole, as a follow up to their visit to the Jurassic Coast and the Dorchester Museum.

The children had been working on a theme of dinosaur teeth and bones, and other fossils.

We started with rubbings and drawings to explore local patterns and textures from the school garden, and then used natural objects with clay and plaster, to make impressions and cast from them; processes that would help the children to begin to understand fossilisation through making.

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