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DINOSAUR CRAFTS & ACTIVITIES

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These Dinosaur Crafts and Activities are great fun for parties, school projects or decorating your bedroom - let us know what you think of them.

Notes about craft materials:
Papier-mache requires newspaper plus either wallpaper paste or PVA glue.
Paint may be poster paint or emulsion paint ('tester pots' are available for small areas). Acrylic paint is useful for the many colours available. Although emulsion paint and acrylic paint are water-based, they are permanent after they have dried, so clothing needs to be protected.

DINOSAUR CRAFTS ON THIS PAGE:

Cave painting  |   Fossil Casts  |   Fossil Candles   |   Fossil Excavation Activity   |   Dino Bone Chopsticks   |   Big Dino Bones   |   Rocks

Solution to "Feeding Frenzy" activity


'FOSSIL EXCAVATION' ACTIVITY

This is an edible activity, so please visit the Dinosaur Party Food page for details.


'FOSSIL PLASTER CASTS'

If you are making fossil plaster casts as a party activity, do them at the start of your party, to give the plaster time to set.

Materials Required:

How to make Plaster 'Fossil' Casts:


FOSSIL CANDLES

These candles have a wonderful fossil design. After your candle has burned right down, you will be left with a hollow fossil shaped stone-effect bowl.

Materials required:

Adult supervision is required!
Wax catches fire easily!
How to make 'Fossil Candles':
Make these candles exactly like the Fossil Plaster casts, but substitute melted candle wax for the plaster. Cut the wicks a centimetre longer than the depth of the fossil, and dip them into liquid wax and leave them to harden before you make your candles. When the candle is half set, stick the wick into the candle, leaving about a centimetre sticking out of the top.

Note:
Ask at a craft shop for a wick which is the right thickness for the diameter of the candle. If the wick is too thin your candle will keep going out.



No Fossil? No Problem



Dinosaur Detective:

Find out about the
fossil record

The tiniest dinosaur so far discovered is 40 cm long theropod, 'Microraptor'. That's about the size of a crow, and was probably the adult size of the Microraptor.

To make a 'Microraptor' fossil model, click to view this picture of Microraptor fossil, and copy the outline, scratching it into a block of plasticine. Then you can pour the plaster on to the plasticine to make a plaster cast, as described above.

The Smallest Complete Dinosaur Skeleton

We don't know the size of a baby Microraptor, but Mussaurus ("mouse lizard"), the smallest complete dinosaur skeleton ever found, was a fossilised newly-hatched baby and was 37 cm long.

You are more likely to find (or buy) crinoids or ammonites. These fossils look like lots of ridged matchsticks. Ammonites have coiled shells rather like a snail.

DINOSAUR BONE CHOPSTICKS

Who needs a knife and fork when there are dinosaur bones to use as chopsticks! Do this activity early on in a party and use them to eat your party food later!

Materials required

How to make Dinosaur Bone Chopsticks:
Draw knobbly 'bone end' shapes on bits of cardboard, and tape them to the tops of plain chopsticks. Leave the 'eating ends' of the chopsticks uncovered, so that they can be cleaned, and you aren't putting the papier mache and paint into your mouth. Build up layers of papier-mache around the shapes and the chopstick tops until they look the right shape. Then dry them out and paint a creamish colour.



BIG DINOSAUR BONES

Materials required How to make Big Dinosaur Bones:
Tape toilet roll tubes to each end as basis for knobbles. Dent them at the ends to give a knobbly effect. Cover the whole 'bone' with several layers of papier mache to hold it together and to give it a better bone shape. The last layer could be white toilet paper (for a textured finish) or you could paint the 'bone' with pale coloured household emulsion paint. Roll it around in the garden to make it nicely grubby!



ROCKY DINOSAUR LANDSCAPE

Materials required How to make Rocks for your Dinosaur Landscape:


DINOSAUR PAINTINGS

Paint your own dinosaur wall paintings or Invitations - there are instructions on the Cave Painting page.

We'd love to see your 'cave-art' creations, so please send them in by email if you have access to a scanner (or send a photo if you prefer) and we'll get as many as we can up on our gallery.



FEEDING FRENZY CHALLENGE - THE SOLUTION


The team members must cooperate to feed each other. It is totally impossible to get food into your own mouth using a rigid tool which is longer that your own arm.