Make your own dinosaur eggs with just a few ingredients and your favorite little plastic dinosaurs. You preschooler will love creating the eggs and then cracking them open a few days later.
Dinosaur egg
You will need:
- 1 1/4 cups dirt
- 1 1/4 cups of flour
- 3/4 cups salt
- 1/2 cup sand
- Water
- Plastic Dinosaurs
making dinosaur eggs
How to make dinosaur eggs:
- Mix together dirt, flour, salt and sand.
- Slowly stir in water to create a dough, clay-like texture
- Mold the dough around one of the plastic dinosaurs
- let the eggs dry thoroughly. This may take all day or several days depending on the weather.
fun with dinosaur eggs
You can use this same recipe to create other kind of critter eggs as well. Use the dry eggs for scavenger hunts, dinosaur party favors or other fun dinosaur themed activities.
This dinosaur egg idea inspired by PreschoolRock.com
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Jen Goode
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Very cool idea. My boys are going to love this!
You could perhaps put crystals or gems in them, too! My kids love going crystal hunting.
Do you think using the oven on a very low setting would help the drying process?
I love this! I’m going to try it out and then try it out with the kids I babysit! They will love it so much!