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Decorations
(Turn your yard into a dinosaur dig.)
Colors should be dinosaur
colors (earth tones), greens and browns.
Put out toy
dinosaurs as
the centerpiece of the table.
Make a volcano
centerpiece. Use a cylindrical container and
pile crumpled newspaper around it. Covered it with clay or even real
mud (allow
time to dry) and decorate to make it look like a real volcano. Fill the
container with baking soda. During the party let the children take
turns making
the volcano erupt by small amounts of vinegar (add red dye for special
effects).
Cut out bones from
butcher paper or brown paper bags to
decorate the walls. You could also make paper-mache dinosaur bones or
dinosaur
eggs for decorations.
Cakes
(Will a dinosaur eat cake? Find out at your dinosaur party.)
Frost a plain rectangular
cake with white frosting. Create a
beach scene by sprinkling blue sugar for the water and tan sugar for
the beach.
Add small dinosaurs. You can color the sugar by adding just a few drops
of
coloring to the granulated sugar and mixing it.
Decorate
cup cakes with
small dinosaurs and small gummi
candies that look like plants or flowers.
Costumes/Dress
up (A dinosaur party for dinosaur
dwellers.)
Make
caveman capes—from
leopard skin. Make simple capes from
old white sheets that have been painted. You can even let them be snow
leopards by leaving the sheets white and using black permanent marker
to make spots.
Games
and Activities (Fossils are
fun in these party games.)
Dinosaur
Egg
hunt (ages
2-16)
Search for a hidden
watermelon then serve it up.
Dinosaur Quarry (ages 3-10)
Turn your dinosaur party into a quarry dig. To make eggs blow up
small balloons and cover with paper
mache. Dry, then paint white or egg white. Fill with small toys and
bury in the
dirt. To
make bones attach an underinflated balloon to the end of a
toilet paper
roll. Use
masking tape to shape the balloon. Then paper mache, dry and paint
white.
Bury the
eggs and bones and provide trowels and paint brushes for the children
to
uncover the bones.
Dinosaur Skeleton (age
3-10)
Use cement to make a
dinosaur skeleton for the children to
uncover. You may need to work on this a week before the party.
The skeleton doesn't need to be complete or perfect. Not many
paleontologists find a complete skeleton.
Dinosaur
Egg Relay (ages
3-12)
Make dinosaur feet out of
old cereal boxes. Cover the boxes
with colored paper, add toes. Make them to fit over shoes. For the
relay the
children put on a pair of dinosaur feet, put a dinosaur egg (plastic
Easter
egg) on a spoon and run a short distance. Make two teams and split the
teams in
two so the egg has to be run back and forth until everyone has had a
turn
running with the egg.
Dino
Walk (ages3-12)
Place large cut outs of
numbered dinosaur footprints in a
circle and have the children march around to music. When the music
stops the
children stop. Pull a number out of a cup—the child standing on the
number wins
a small prize and gets to watch the rest play. Continue the game until
all have
won.
Dinosaur
Maze (ages 4-10)
Race through the maze to escape the volcano and gather as many bones as
you can. Dinosaur Sudoku (ages 4-16)
A princess Sudoku party game is a great addition to a party. The
picture sudoku puzzle is just challenging enough to be exciting, and
simple enough to be fun.
Dinosaur Race (ages 5-12)
Run relay races as though
you’re different dinosaurs.
Stegosaurus runs on four legs. T-rex has short arms. So, run a bit and
then try
to eat a piece of watermelon with your hands up next to your body.
Crafts
(Learn the craft of paleontology.)
Dinosaur
Puppets (ages
2-8)
Use lunch sized brown
paper bags. Glue pre-cut shapes to
make dinosaurs. You will need faces and the bottom of the mouths, eyes,
tongues,
teeth and horns. Use glue sticks to glue dinosaur pieces to a brown
paper bag
to make into a puppet.
Clay (ages 3-10)
Make edible clay. Invite
everyone to shape it and make their
own dishes like cavemen had to do.
Dinosaur egg soap (ages
4-10)
Shred one bar of Ivory
soap. Mix with ΒΌ cup warm water in a
baggie the seals. Add 3 drops food coloring but no more because you
don’t want
to color the skin of the person using the soap. Knead the mixture until
it is
smooth. Split
in two and shape around two small toys. Place on wax paper and allow to
dry. Wrap
in cellophane bag.
Caveman Vests (ages 4-12)
Use brown paper bags. Before the party, cut the
bag in vest shape. Crumple and
soak in water, then allow to dry. Repeat the soak and drying process.
This
makes it feel more like soft leather. Let the children decorate their
vests
with caveman pictures.
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