We did this at our April Pack meeting - the theme was Jurassic Pack - so cute - but I thought I would post it here because it would be a super idea for a kid's dinosaur themed birthday party.
We made Coffee Ground Fossils
1 cup of used coffee grounds
1/2 cup of cold coffee
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
Small dinosaur figurines
Directions
Stir ingredients until well mixed.
Knead the dough together.
Mold dough around a dinosaur figurine covering it
completely.
Press your dinosaurs firmly into the dough.
The boys should carefully pull the “dirt” away from
their “fossil” using tooth picks or a toothbrush and
water.
For harder products - let the fossil dry overnight - will
still be slightly soft (not rock hard).
For softer products, place them in a sealed container
until used.
Obviously just a version of Salt Dough - but they do look amazingly like rocks...
Each Cub got a baggy to transport his 'rock/fossil' home in...
Then I made two sets of these huge dinosaur tracks out of cardboard...
We divided into two teams and had a relay race...
You had to stay on a track and then move the other track forward...
It was interesting to see all of the different 'techniques' for this process...
The leaders participated too (me included)....
It was a lot of fun and hilarious (especially the adults - the cubs pretty much picked up one track and hopped onto it and then picked up the other)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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