Dinosaur Eggs Craft and Activity
Miami66 has started a lot of great conversations at our forum. I encourage you to check it out.
Below is one of the posts from the forum on a dinosaur egg activity. Thanks to Miami66 for posting this, as well as all the other great info he has posted on the forum.
Dinosaur Eggs
Grade: 4-6
Ages: 8-12
Objectives:
Create your own game while you dabble in discovery and history.
What You Need:
• 2 and 1/2 cups flour
• 2 and 1/2 cups of dirt
• 1 cup sand
• 1 and 1/2 cups of salt
• water
• small plastic toy dinosaurs (available from toys stores)
• hammer
What You Do:
1. To make the dough, mix all the dry ingredients together (flour, dirt, salt and sand).
2. Gradually stir in enough water so that the mix holds together.
3. Shape handfuls of dough around the small plastic dinosaurs in the form of egg shapes.
4. Give these “eggs” up to 4 days to dry then you can let the kids discover them in the garden. (You can probably dry them out on a low oven setting or use a hairdryer to speed up the process.)
5. They can open them with a hammer or rock.
6. They are great for parties and hide and seek games.
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Awesome! I’m going to use this as part of the “Animal Tracks” sub-theme for my Kindergardeners at camp this summer!
Thank you so much for sharing, I did this with my kids and they loved it. I am sharing our experience on my blog.
Lisa
Creativeraisins.blogspot.com
This seems like a large recipe, how many eggs does this make??
Alison, I have never tried it so I couldn’t say. Try contacting Lisa who left a comment above. She added the name of her website.
Thank you for the post! I’d love to use this in a Care of Magical Creatures class activity at our Wizard Summer Camp.
Great idea, Rachel.