Dinosaur Birthday Party

Lovey and I had a lot of fun creating plans for his dinosaur birthday party. We also had a great time at the birthday party. He was excited about inviting some preschool friends.

Here's what I did for the party.

The invitations: Two papers cut in an egg shape and attached with a brad. I used brads that had letters on them and put the first initial of that child on the invitation. The top egg was cut in two with a zig-zag line to look like a cracked egg and then the top part opened to reveal the party information. The front of the card said, "Breaking News" and the inside said, "Dinosaurs discovered at Lovey's house."

The decorations: I drew a palm tree and some plants and put them on the wall next to a triceratops I drew for a game. We also had green and yellow balloons.


The cake: Lovey wanted a dinosaur cake with a volcano. Originally I was going to do a 3-D dinosaur, but after seeing pictures he said he wanted a volcano too. I used two 13x9 cakes stacked on top of each other. When the cakes came out of the oven, I put a clean towel over them and pressed them down. This made them denser and easier to decorate and I didn't have to cut the top to make it even. I made the shooting lava with corn syrup, sugar, water, and red food coloring. (It was difficult to get out of my pan though.) The volcano is two cupcakes with the tops cut off. It was a little more cylindrical than I wanted, but it works. I used decorating glitter for on the river to give it the sparkle of water and I wrote his name on the side which the picture doesn't show.

The activities: As the kids arrived we made apotosaurus hats. I made bands out of paper to go around their head and then they attached heads with long necks, tails, legs, and googly eyes. They also colored them and put stickers on them.
Then we played Brontosaurus, Brontosaurus, T-Rex and pin the horn on the triceratops with the triceratops I drew for the decoration.
I made a volcano out of modeling clay around a plastic bottle. I made the grass and river out of playdoh. We made the volcano erupt with baking soda and vinegar dyed red with food coloring. The kids loved it. Thankfully I put enough baking soda in so we could do it three or four times. They liked when it washed out the dinosaurs I had put in the scene.

I told the kids that a paleontologist had told me there were dinosaurs in the sand box. Each kids got a spoon and went to the backyard to dig for dinosaurs. The day before I had marked a grid in the sand so each child would get a square and I buried a small toy dinosaur in the square.
We had a pinata too and thankfully the rain held off long enough for us to put it outside.
Then we went inside to play Hot Dinosaur Egg and read the books, "The Day Dinosaurs Came with Everything" and "Dinosaurumpus" and we had our own dinosaurumpus.

Treat Bags: The treat bags contained dinosaur stickers, a crayon roll, and a dinosaur notebook so the paleontologists could make notes about their discoveries.

It was a lot of fun and Lovey had a great time.