Today, my husband and son excavated and assembled a T-Rex from this fun little “fossil” we purchased at Cracker Barrel. It wasn’t terribly expensive ($9.99), but I’ve got to think you could recreate this at home with some plaster of paris and some plastic dino bones?
The tool they used looked a bit like a plastic knife on one end and a hammer on the other end. The other tool was just a basic paintbrush.
They had SO much fun!
I’d love to recreate this project again so it’s not just a one time thing. Obviously I don’t want to keep buying $9.99 kits!
I’d love your advice: How would you recreate this craft at home?
We had a kit similar to that, too! I also have just used chicken bones and had them “excavate” them (we didn’t put it back together though) 😉
Here’s the post… http://www.amazingmess.com/2011/05/dinosaur-excavation-for-kids.html
You could probably take apart the dino and put it in sand if you wanted to do something easy. Otherwise, I think plaster of paris would work!
Neat Stacie! I love the chicken bone idea. I think I need to put chicken legs on the menu soon!