Theme:

Prehistoric Weekend

Decorations:

Paint two large empty refrigerator boxes to look like a cave. Inside, glue on pictures of dinosaurs. Add sound effects by taping them from the movie JurassicPark. Let the kids crawl through the Dinosaur cave to get to the party at the campground.

Cut out dinosaur footprints from brown paper. Place all over campground. Have them lead up to your entry way. Decorate table with large rocks, green plants and plastic or paper dinosaurs.

Sheet cake frosted with brown chocolate icing. Decorate by making a volcano, plastic trees and dino's. Crumbled Oreo for dirt, blue frosting for water.

Volcano cake with Red velvet cake mix, chocolate frosting and the use a Pampered Chef Batter Bowl. Once cake has been cooked in batter bowl turn over and frost, you can decorate with red decorative icing and at the top place a couple of sparklers for effect - have kids stand clear to not be burned. You can also hollow it a bit, add a shot glass with a tiny amount of dry ice - Note-Caution: DO NOT let the kids touch this.

Cut out dino shape sandwiches, and cookies.

Any Red punch can be Lava Juice.

Decorate lunch bags with dino stickers. Add more inside, dino pencil, dino cookies and a cookie cutter. Other dinosaur items.

Games & Activities:

  • Dino Bingo
  • Dino Imagination Hikes

Kids Activities:

  • Dinosaur Game

Have the kids make four posters of different dinosaurs, labeled with their names. Post the four posters on four walls or in four separate locations. One person stands in the middle and covers his/her eyes while counting to ten. The other kids walk around in a circle.

At the end of ten, the counter calls, "STOP!" and the kids have to stop at the poster that they are nearest. The person, eyes still closed, calls out the name of a dinosaur and whoever is at that one gets to come to the center to count as well. This continues until only one person is left.

  • Dinosaur Habitat

To create a dinosaur habitat outdoors if it is dry, the kids can start by making newspaper trees.

Lay three sheets of newspaper on top of each other and then roll them up tightly, using the short side. Tape in the middle. With a pair of scissors, carefully cut one end of the roll into strips, about 6 inches up. Then, carefully twist and pull this end up to make the tree longer. The strips will gradually curl down to form the foliage for the tree.

Kids can make several of these trees. Help out by spray painting the trees green. While the trees are drying, kids can paint a mural for background decoration.

  • Paper Mache

Have the kids tear newspaper into strips about ½ to 1" wide. Put some flour into the empty ice cream pail and add warm water gradually, mixing with hands until the consistency of gravy.

Kids can use small balloons as a base for making dinosaur eggs. Set the eggs outside on waxed paper to dry. If it is sunny, they may be dry in a couple of hours. Then they may be painted with the poster paints.

Kids can also make dinosaur models. They may refer to the reference books for ideas. They can establish a base for the body by taking a sheet of newspaper and crumpling it and molding it into a body shape. Strips can then be applied to it.

  • Dinosaur Puppets

Kids can make puppets from socks. Provided with buttons, pieces of felt, and other odds and ends, they will come up with their own ways to make the puppets look real. They may sew felt pieces down the back of the sock for the bony plates on the back of a Stegosaurus or for teeth, white buttons may be sewn into the mouth.

  • Paper Bag Dinosaur Masks

Have the kids create dinosaur heads by decorating the paper bags creatively to reflect the dinosaur of their choice. They can draw on or cut out sharp teeth, bony plates, etc.

Fossil Dig:
Need dog bone treats. Bury these in a sand box or other designated area. Have the kids dig for dino bones. OR use real bones. Save bones and boil them for 1/2 to 1 hour to get all the meat off. After boiling, bake them for another hour or so. Cool and spray with primer and white paint.

Dinosaur Hunt:
Draw a large dinosaur, cut into several pieces (like a puzzle). Hide these pieces around and let the kids find them. Have them restructure the dino.

Hatch the Dino Egg:
Need balloons for each team, one per child. Mini dinosaur toys or stickers. Place one in each balloon before blowing up and tying off.
Play: Have each team line up. The first in line gets to hatch their "dino egg" by sitting on the balloon. They need to try to break the balloon before the next one in line gets a chance. When they break their "egg" they keep the prize. First team finished wins.

Bone Drop
Need doggy bone treats. Jar or container.
Play: Have the kids drop the bones into the container while standing straight. Give them 5-10 bones each. The one with the most in wins.

Dinosaur Charades
Put dino names on paper slips and have the kids pick them out of a basket. The kids can act out their dinosaur and let the others guess who they are.

Dino Egg Hunt
Use plastic Easter eggs. Fill with "Primordial Ooze*," dino toys, candies, etc. Have them hunt for the eggs. You could also hunt for chalk eggs.
(*recipe: need-white glue, water, borax
2 oz white glue
2 oz water
Put both the glue and water in cup and mix up.
Mix together 1 1/2 teaspoons borax per each 1/2 cup water.
Add 2 oz of this mix to glue/water mix. Stir, it will instantly began to cling together).

Volcano's:
Make a mound of sand around a Dixie cup. Put in some baking soda. Pour in vinegar to watch it gurgle up. Add food coloring to vinegar before hand if you want it colored.

Dino Decos:
Cut out dinosaur shapes from construction paper. Let the kids decorate them with lace, glitter, dyed macaroni and rice, felt pens, etc.

Dino Egg Discovery - Purchase small plastic dinosaurs and make homemade playdough. Cover the dino's with the playdough so they are in an "egg." Bake. Let the kids break them apart with supervision.

Triceratops Toss: Draw the front face of a Triceratops on a large poster board. Where the horns should be put in 3 dowels. Let the kids toss embroidery hoops onto the horns.

Make "dino feet" out of empty cereal boxes. Laythem flat and cut an X into the top of each so the boys can put their feetin them like shoes. Covered each box with colored funny foam cut intothe shape of dino footprints. The boys put their feet into the boxes like ahuge pair of shoes. Give them each a big spoon with a dino egg on it.They have to walk/stomp their way across the room and dump the egg into thenest.

Dinosaur Feet -These feet are fun to play racing games with so make a couple of sets. They would make a great party game for a dinosaur theme party.

What you will need: Shoe box size boxes, paint, fun foam, glue gun, knife, newspaper, and duck tape.
What to do:
1. Cut a small hole in one end of each box just big enough for a child’s foot to fit in.
2. Tape the box closed with strong tape. Stuff the inside front and sides of the box with newspaper leaving just enough room for a child’s foot to fit inside.
3. Spray paint the boxes a dinosaur color and let them dry.
4. Cut out 2 inch claws from fun foam and glue them to the front top of the box.