For the culmination of their science unit on dinosaurs, Mr. Bones came to visit the first grade classes. Mr. Bones is an art teacher-turned paleontology volunteer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
He makes amazingly detailed and realistic, life sized dinosaur skeleton puppets out of paper mache and foam - he sketches actual fossils and fossil castings to make his puppets entirely anatomically correct.
The kids all loved being able to touch the puppets but the highlight was when "Junior" - the baby T-Rex - "ate" them!
Sophie was chosen to help Mr. Bones demonstrate the size and scale of his current juvenile T-Rex puppet to the mama T-Rex puppet head he just completed.
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| Mildly freaked out! But not as startled as her classmate! |
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| mama and baby |
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| It's really cool but keep it away from me! |
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| The head alone is bigger than a first grader! |
He's in the process of trying to develop a rig that will allow him to wear a full-sized T-rex puppet but for now it's just the head.
It was such a blast and I'm glad I was able to come and watch. We've seen Mr. Bones at the museum before but never had the chance to see so many of his different puppets nor hear so much about him and how he makes them. He is definitely one VERY cool guy!
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