Dinosaur Names for Kids: T. Rex, Triceratops and Stegosaurus

Ten words from the age of dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus rex was the giant meat-eater of the late Cretaceous, and Triceratops, with its three horns and bony frill, lived alongside it. Stegosaurus carried plates on its back and spikes on its tail; Diplodocus, about 25 meters from nose to tail, was one of the longest animals that ever lived; Allosaurus hunted in the Jurassic; Spinosaurus had a sail on its back and probably hunted fish; and Iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs ever named, in 1825.

Jurassic, fossil and raptor complete the list. Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops have 11 letters, as many as the grid is wide, so each one fills a whole row or column.

Dinosaur Vocabulary: 10 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 10 read backwards. The longest words are Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops, with 11 letters each.

Allosaurus: A large meat-eating dinosaur of the late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, with sharp teeth and three-fingered hands.
Diplodocus: A huge plant-eating dinosaur of the Jurassic, with a long neck and whip-like tail, about 25 meters long.
Fossil: The preserved remains or traces of an ancient living thing, like bones, shells or footprints turned to stone.
Iguanodon: A plant-eating dinosaur with a spiked thumb, one of the first dinosaurs ever named, in 1825.
Jurassic: The middle period of the age of dinosaurs, about 201 to 145 million years ago, when Stegosaurus and Diplodocus lived.
Raptor: A small, fast, feathered meat-eating dinosaur like Velociraptor, with a curved claw on each foot.
Spinosaurus: A huge meat-eating dinosaur with a tall sail on its back and a crocodile-like snout, which probably hunted fish.
Stegosaurus: A plant-eating dinosaur of the late Jurassic with big plates along its back and spikes on its tail.
T. Rex: Tyrannosaurus rex, a giant meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 68 to 66 million years ago.
Triceratops: A three-horned, plant-eating dinosaur with a bony frill, which lived alongside T. rex at the end of the Cretaceous.

How to Solve the Dinosaur Word Search

"Spinosaurus" and "Triceratops" each fill a whole row, reading backwards, and "Stegosaurus" fills a whole column, running down. "T. Rex" is written TREX in the grid and runs down, like "Raptor"; it shares TR with "Triceratops". "Jurassic", with the only J, reads backwards, and "Fossil", with the only F, is the only word that runs upward.

Dinosaur Activities for Kids

Ask children to draw each animal and write its name under it.
Put the animals on a timeline: Stegosaurus and Diplodocus in the Jurassic, T. rex in the Cretaceous.
Sort the dinosaurs into meat-eaters and plant-eaters.