Hobbies And Interests
Woolly Mammoth
All About Mammals has several activities for kid related to prehistoric animals. They can print a picture of a woolly mammoth, a furry, elephant-like creature, and label all the animal's body parts, or kids can read about the woolly mammoth and answer quiz questions at the end of the passages. Drawing Now has a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw a woolly mammoth for more advanced children.
Saber-Toothed Tigers
Stone and Bone Trading offers a kit so kids can paint their own saber-toothed tiger. Priced at $9.99 as of June, 2011, the kit includes a wooden tiger and six different paint colors. Assemble a saber-toothed tiger skeleton yourself with a kit offered at Amazon.com. It allows kids to chisel the fossils out and put them in the correct position to create the prehistoric mammal.
Walking With Beasts
The BBC network in Australia produced a program, "Walking With Beasts," in 2002. The corresponding website has been archived, which includes a mammal's family tree to show how humans are related to the prehistoric mammals. The site also has online games for kids, such as "Beasts Playground," which challenges kids to make their own skeleton in the fastest time possible. Kids can also see how fossils are and what conditions help best preserve fossils.
Museums
Those who are lucky enough to live near a museum that has a prehistoric mammal exhibit can make a day of it with the kids. The American Museum of Natural History in New York City has the largest collection of vertebrate fossils in the world. There is also a permanent exhibit about mammals where kids can step back in time to imagine the world as the prehistoric mammals saw it.