Dinosaur Games for Kids - Raah!

Dinosaur Roar Games - Matching, Memory, Jigsaw Puzzle

This is a lovely set of games for preschoolers based on Paul Stickland's wonderful Dinosaur Roar! illustrations.


Orange roar dinosaur poster by PaulStickland

Dinosaur Roar! Memory Game

This is a delightful memory game where you have to remember the order in which the dinosaurs grr and replay it. Simple and great fun.

Dinosaur Roar! Pairs Game

A big 4x9 grid matching game with gorgeous Paul Stickland dinosaurs. The large grid makes this a little more challenging that some of the smaller pairs games around. My 4 year old is an amazing at matching games so it's nice to find one that stretches him and with brilliant dinosaurs too.

Dinosaur Roar! Jigsaw Puzzle Game

Three delightful Stickland dinosaur puzzles, starting with a simple 4 piece jigsaw and getting harder. Great for learning to control a mouse.

More Preschooler Dinosaur Games

For little kids up to age 5

Dinosphere Games Gallery

A lovely collection of simple games. Includes a dinosaur crest matching game where pterosaurs swoop down to match pairs. A game where you have to hatch a duck-billed dinosaur egg while fending off predators and eating to keep your energy up. And a game where you have to return a dinosaur to his lost herd by tracking footprints. Nice and simple. Younger kids will enjoy playing with their parents. School children will be able to play on their own.

Dinosaur Dash

You control a baby triceratops with the mouse and move through a prehistoric terrain collecting leaves and bashing rocks and trees, Very simple and great fun. Good for learning mouse control. You don't need to be too accurate, the Triceratops will keep moving towards the cursor.

Online Dino Dig, Fact and Quiz Games

Learn about dinosaurs while playing games

The Baryonyx Mystery

We loved this! It's an interactive paleontology learning game with Bill Oddie as presenter. You watch video clips and then answer questions. Most of the time is spent learning by watching video clips including real dinosaur scientists presenting facts. DS2 (nearly 4) was able to follow the clips and answer the questions correctly - he did know most of this already as he has learned about Baryonyx before. I enjoyed it as an adult and learned a lot. Highly recommended. Access may be restricted to those in the UK.

Smithsonian Dino Dig Interactive Game

We enjoyed this one. It teaches dinosaur paleontology. You use tools to uncover a dinosaur skeleton and prepare it to be taken to the museum. DS2 (nearly 4) was really excited at the point where he could identify what kind of dinosaur it was - we won't spoil to surprise! It's based on a factual event and is full of paleontology info and at the end, lots of dinosaur facts. It doesn't take long to play and there's probably not much replay value, but definitely worth playing.

Dinosaur Quiz

Our own ten question multiple choice dinosaur quiz. Think you know about dinosaurs? Hopefully you'll learn something interesting about dinosaurs.

Dino Dig - Find the dinosaurs hidden in the grid

A cute little game where you have to specify a grid reference for a little paleontologist to dig at. Will he find dinosaur bones? This game is great for helping kids learn how to follow grid references.

Dinosaurs: Fossil Hunt Game - Find Fossils and Build a Dinosaur

This game from National Geographic is very cool. It's a dino dig game with a difference. You need to uncover fossils to build a dinosaur skeleton, starting with Coelophysis in the Triassic era. But the fossils are hidden in a Mahjong-style game, use the tool to uncover the fossil in each tile then remove pairs of tiles. Very neat! It's against the clock, but you do have a shuffle option in case you get stuck. I rather enjoyed playing this one myself. Great for mouse skills and logical thinking.

Dinosaur King Dino Dig 3.0 - 4Kids TV

For fans of the Dinosaur King TV Series. Help Dr. Taylor find and unearth dinosaur fossils and become a dinosaur expert.

Dinosaur Arcade Games

Online and free

DINOSoars! Collect Pterodactyl eggs in this fun platform game

This one's great fun. You control a yellow pterodactyl as she flies around to collect her lost pterodactyl eggs and return them to her nest. Loads quickly and the gameplay reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog. My kids are a bit young to control the game on their own at 2 and just 4 (the 4 year old is close) so they watched over my shoulder as I played and gave tips: "Watch out for the buzzy thing" (makes you drop your eggs), "there's the naughty T-Rex" (stuns you) and "look an egg"!

Baryonyx Fishing

A Baryonyx game, cool! We like our British dinosaurs. You control a hungry Baryonyx who wants to catch his lunch. Simple controls so young children will be able to have a go. Not easy to do well though.

Dinosaur King Meteorite Game

Save dinosaurs from meteorites! Shoot at the meterorites and destroy them before they reach the dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Pinball Game

I love pinball games, this one has a dinosaur theme with a T-Rex backdrop. Yep, pinball with dinosaurs, we like it!

Me and My Dinosaur Online Game - Adventure games

This games is for older children or at least kids who have great computer game skills, but it's intriguing so we're including it here. It's the story of a boy and his pet Tyrannosaurus Rex. The introduction tells the story of the boy and the dinosaur in a way that draws you in. The game is a platform game in which you control the boy using keys and the T-Rex by throwing him a bone with a mouse click - the two collaborators must work together to get through the levels. We haven't played this game all the way through but it's definitely worth a mention.

Dino Run

Dinosaur platform game where you have to outrun the meteors threatening to destroy the earth and collect dinosaur eggs. The graphics are simple but effective. My four year old could get a fair way just by pressing the key to move forward. He loved climbing over the Stegosaurus. I enjoyed playing it. See if you can get picked up by a passing Pterosaur!