Totally Awesome Dinosaur Party Ideas
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You can do the Dinosaur Party two ways. Living with the Dinosaurs, or Digging for Dinos. Or you can just mix the two. Kids are not perfectionists.
If you do the first party, you'll want more things to do with cavemen and live dinos. If you do the second party, you'll want to go more with pith hats and digging for fossils.
Dinosaur Party Ideas for Invitations
Send out plastic dinosaurs with a tag attached that has all the party information on it.
Cut a dinosaur shape out of scrapbook paper. Glue on eyes and add fine detail with a marker. Glue onto a
piece of card stock. Fold in half. Write party information inside.
This is so cool if you have the time to do it. Papier mache a balloon. Let it dry and paint to look like a dinosaur egg.
Cut around the middle in jagged edges. Leave a little in the back to form a "hinge". Place easter grass inside, and set a toy baby dinosaur setting on it. Write the
party information on the egg, or on a small card inside the egg.
So cute! You'll have to hand these out personally.
You can also do these for decorations. Get the kids involved for some family fun.
Dinosaur Party Costumes
Let the kids be cavemen. The costumes are so easy for this idea. Cut a hole in the middle of a piece of fabric. Slip over the guests head and tie with another
thin piece of fabric. No sewing involved.
Purchase dinosaur masks and pin a tail on the guests pants.
Or you can dress in pith helmets, binoculars, and shorts if you're searching for dinosaur fossils.
Dinosaur Party Ideas for Decorations
Your colors for this party will vary according to the party supplies that you get. The
Dinosaur Friends Deluxe Party Box
is a busy parents dream come true. One click, and you're done.
A really great color combination for this party is green, purple, blue, and brown.
Place a Dinosaurs Personalized Banner over the door
or above the party table.
Cut dinosaur paw prints out of construction paper. Tape on the sidewalk. Make signs out of thick poster boards that say...
Dinosaur Crossing
Hot glue a stake to the back and stick in the ground.
Use green or brown tablecloths. You can also use the tablecloths that come with the party kits. Make fake trees. Tape brown construction paper
around a round bottle. Place fake leaves coming out of it. Really easy and effective. Purchase toy dinosaurs and place around the trees. Scatter rocks
and moss along the table.
Use your dinosaur cake and dinosaur supplies as part of the decorations. It adds instant color.
Balloons are a must at any birthday party. Purchase a T-Rex Balloon or
two and add latex balloons around them.
You can create a forest like effect with fake trees. Inflatable Palm Trees are fun to use.
You can also use real plants. Purchase or borrow them and set them everywhere. Paint large dinosaurs(find inspiration from coloring books) and set here and there.
These are great for photo opportunities.
Hang greenery from the ceiling and from the chandelier.
Purchase brown craft paper on a roll. You'll want it pretty wide. Tape all the way around the party room. Draw or paint volcanos, trees, bushes,
plants, and rocks at the bottom. Set all your trees and plants in front of it for a 3-D effect.
You can use an overhead projector to draw out the trees
and things and then you just fill in with paint. It's really not that hard and it makes a huge impact.
Crush the corners of appliance boxes. Cover with crumbled brown paper to resemble a cave. Place a fake fire in the middle and draw caveman drawings inside. You could have this
as a craft project as well.
Suspend Pterodactyls from the ceiling. I know they're not dinosaurs, but unless you have exacting scientist, you'll be okay.
You can also do this party outside.
Just set up against a fence or the side of the house.
If you want this to be a learning experience as well as fun, you can tag all the dinosaurs with their names and their length and weight.
Dinosaur Party Ideas For Games and Activities
Digging For Dinosaurs
Fill a small swimming pool with sand. Before the party, bury dinosaur skeletons. Give the kids tools and let them dig.
T-Rex Stomp
Tie a balloon on one ankle. The kids must stomp on the other players balloon to try and pop them. Once your balloon is popped, you are out of the game.
The last player left with a balloon is the winner.
Caveman Drawing
Let the kids draw inside the caves(see above for instructions).
How Big Were They?
Purchase a long piece of fabric, or use brown craft paper. Let the kids roll it out to the length of the different dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Party Ideas For Cakes, Food, and Drinks
Cakes
Make a volcano cake. Bake 2 chocolate bundt cakes. set one on a cake plate and cut the other one to add to the bottom of the volcano.
Frost with chocolate frosting and crumble black cookies on top. Put some dry ice in a paper cup and place in the hole. It will smoke. Please be
very careful. Do not touch the dry ice with your bare hands. Use gloves or tongs.
Use Wilton's Partysaurus pan and create your very own dinosaur cake.
Food
- Dinosaur shaped sandwiches
- Dinosaur Nuggets
- Brontosaurus Burgers
- Vegetable Tray(many dinosaurs were vegetarians)
- Fruit Kabobs
Drinks
- Lava Juice(any red juice mixed with sparkling water)
- Swamp Juice(any green juice mixed with sparkling water)
Dinosaur Party Ideas For Favors
Purchase ready-made favors, or make your own. If you don't do the papier mache eggs for the invitations, you can give them as favors at the end of the
party.
You can use brown gift bags and embellish with dinosaur stickers. Tie purple, blue, and green ribbon on one handle. Fill your favor container with...
- Dinosaur Stickers
- Dinosaur Tatoos
- Toy Dinosaurs
- Binoculars
- Dinosaur Fruit Snacks
- Growing Dinosaurs
- Dinosaur Gliders
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