Dinosaur Discovery

It all started with THIS....

Dino egg with baby dinosaur

 ....a small dinosaur egg that my son "bought" with about 50 tickets he won playing skee-ball and a ball drop game at a local indoor play place.  He loves this thing.  I knew I had to run with it, so I made some dinosaur eggs with (Toobi) dinosaurs inside.  Here is the recipe I used:

• 1 1/2 C dirt
• 1 1/2 C sand
• 1 C flour
• 3/4 C salt
• add water until a dough forms
• form eggs around dinosaurs 
• let dry for a few days (mine dried for 3 days....and could have used another day of drying)

THE INVITATION

storage container, cloud dough, rocks, sticks, container of water for a "pond", pine straw nest, dino eggs, scooper, magnifying glass, paint brush, pick, hammer

Using the hammer and pick to open the eggs

washing off the dinosaur - and his hands - LOL

He said the dinosaurs needed to stay in the nest until all of their brothers and sisters hatched.  LOL

Using the brush

Perfect timing!  I ordered my son a dinosaur egg on Thursday night.  I intended on putting it in his Easter basket, but it arrived today and since we were on a dinosaur egg roll, I let him have it. 
We had such a fun day!  

opening the egg that came in the mail

checking out the dinosaur bones

- AK (MESE, MECD)