Dinosaur Birthday Party

My Grandson's Dinosaur Birthday Party

Goodie bags full of the Animal Planet candy. 

This is the info on my grandson's 6th birthday party. For the goody (goodie?) bags I used colored lunch bags. Fold top over. Glue on eyes (white circles and half circles a little larger), use marker to make pupils and nostrils. Cut "teeth" triangles at edge of the folded over top, add dinosaur arms/hands and dinosaur eggs. Staple or add yarn handle. I'm sure there was a better way to do this, but I got the idea from a pic somewhere online.

Dinosaur Crossing sign: Choose or cut a square of cardboard. Cut yellow paper same size. I found a dinosaur from color sheets online and made a pattern by directly copying it off the computer, but you could print one out for a pattern. Choose a simple picture. Cut it out of black construction paper. Use marker to write Dinosaur Crossing. Laminate if possible. Hot glue to the cardboard. Buy or make a wooden post. I happened to have a sign post from a Halloween decoration. I screwed the sign onto the post, then hammered it into the dirt by the walkway.

Pinata or decoration Dinosaur Egg. I made a paste of flour and water and wrapped a balloon to make a paper mache egg. I spray painted it yellow because that is the color paint I had. I bought these blow up dinosaurs at the Dollar Tree. You could put one in the egg, then blow it up and have it hatch at the party! I found the cottony green fake Easter grass at Joann's. The dinosaurs around it were bought at Dollar General.

Food

We had Dinosaur Bones, Dinosaur Claws (Bugles), chocolate "mud" brownies, individual bowls of ice cream, trail juice--Capri Sun and KoolAid Jammers, the usual chips and dip, a lot of Animal Planet candy like dinosaur eggs and suckers that I found at Big Lots. Actually that find is what led me to the theme. The only thing we didn't do theme-wise was the cake, because it was ordered before we decided on the theme.

Animal Planet Candy

Dinosaur Bones

Assembled Dinosaur Bones
Marshmallows and Big Pretzel Sticks

White Chocolate Covered
Dinosaur Bones

ACTIVITY

We were at a park, so there were swings and such. They had their binoculars to be on the lookout for a dinosaur near the Dinosaur Crossing Sign. They found one--the pinata!

Dinosaur Pinata, formerly a Sun Pinata

The only pinatas I could find here were a sun and some girlie pink one. When I saw the rays on the sun I thought, "spikes!" I cut one entirely off and folder the cardboard in. Then I glued blue tissue paper on top of the yellow. I cut rows of fringe and glued them across and down in two triangles for feet. I added the eye. This is the finished pic (at my house). They were so funny hitting the poor thing. They didn't even stop when the candy came out, they beat it til there was nothing but little pieces left and even broke the stick, which was an old tool handle! After they destroyed it they flew, or tried to fly dinosaur kites I bought at the Dollar Tree. They had a great time with them, too!

Binoculars

Here's how I made the toilet tissue roll binoculars:
1. Spray paint toilet paper tubes, or cover them in paper--wallpaper, wrapping paper, shelf liner.
2.Cover the ends in colored plastic wrap. Tape tightly.

3. Cover the raw, taped edges with painter's tape or masking tape. 

4. Punch holes on opposite sides. 

4.Wrap yarn around a ruler to desired length ( I cut mine about 30") and cut.
5.Thread yarn through the holes and tie knots on the inside of the tubes.
6. Put stapler inside the tubes (a tight fit) and staple a couple of times. I found it easier to lay this with stapler upside down on the table. You might want to hot glue them before stapling so they'll stay.
7. As kids arrived I gave them the binoculars and let them put dinosaur and happy birthday stickers on them for decoration.

GRRR Jude had a gigantic time!