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Grade: 3-8

Age: 8-14

Activity Summary:

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.

5. They can open them with a hammer or rock.

6. They are great for parties and hide and seek games.

Additional Suggestions:

1. Make sure that you turn the eggs a lot while they dry. I found out that in the early summer you still have dew (at least in New England) and the bottoms of the eggs stay moist. I had to take them in at night so they would keep dry.

2. Instead of children digging for eggs in a sand box, why not make it look like corral, using more sand than mud and giving it texture by making little holes in it with a fork or a pencil. Then instead of dinosaurs use plastic coin. Bury them in a sand box and the children can be treasure hunters looking for lost pirates treasure.

Recommended Books:

1001 Things to Do With Your Kids
by Caryl Waller Krueger

Recommended Products

Dino Eggs Craft Kit (pk/24) Dino Eggs Craft Kit. Got kids crazy for dinosaurs? Let them create and paint prehistoric-looking eggs with balloons and sculpting material, then 'hatch' the eggs to reveal the mini dino inside! Contains everything needed, including toy dinosaurs. Ages 8+. 6".

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