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    Home » Kids » Crafts and Activities

    Dino Egg Dig

    Published: Aug 10, 2012 · Modified: Sep 12, 2022 by Ang Paris · 2 Comments
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    My son is very much into dinosaurs.  And dirt.  We invited our friends Jacob and Alex over and got messy!

    Materials

    • 2 cups sand 2 cups flour
    • 1 cups coffee grounds
    • 1 cup water tiny dinosaurs
    • baking sheet parchment paper
    • small hammer shovel & pail  

    Just a note about your dinosaurs - you need really, really small ones... the ones we started with were way too big and the eggs were enormous!  

    Instructions

    1. Preheat the oven to 250-degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  
    2. In a large bowl, mix together the sand, flour, coffee grounds and water. 
    3. Use your hands to kneed the dough until it is all combined. 
    4. The dough should feel like gritty playdough.  
    5. Flatten small pieces of dough and then wrap them around the dinosaur, forming an egg shape... depending on the shape of your dinosaur, your egg  may be rounder or more oval.
    6. Bake for 20 minutes, then turn over. 
    7. Bake for another 20 minutes.  Let the eggs cool and finish hardening overnight.  

    That's the  messy indoor part... now for the messy outdoor part.

    We hid the eggs in a sandbox (we counted them first!) and let the kids dig for them.  Ethan and Jacob actually buried and dug up their eggs a couple of times.... there were only 2 eggs that wandered off, later to be found in another part of the yard.  Opps.  

    Oliva (17mo) and Alex (11mo) had fun putting the eggs into the pail, and taking them back out. And eating sand... I suppose that's inevitable.  

    Once all the eggs have been collected, use a hammer to crack them open and 'hatch' the dinosaur. Some of our eggs were pretty easy to open - Jacob was able to pull one apart with his hands.

    There are lots of teachable moments during the course of this activity from start to finish:

    • Measuring the ingredients
    • Counting the eggs, then the dinosaurs
    • Learning the names of the dinosaur species
    • Learning the features of the dinosaurs
    • Hand-Eye Coordination (using the hammer)
    • Sharing, taking turns and working together

    I hope you'll try this fun activity with your kids, and if you do, be sure to let me know how it turned out.

     

     
     

     

     
     
     
     
     
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    1. Anonymous says

      January 30, 2013 at 5:14 am

      My sons would LOVE this but do you know if this will work with out coffee grounds?
      Julina

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    2. Mari says

      February 25, 2022 at 3:18 am

      I tried this with my kids and they absolutely loved it. Thank you for the fun activity 🙂

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