DinoROAR

My son turned two the week that T was in hospital, so the dinosaur party I'd been planning for him got put on hold. What this meant was I could do some more fun things for him and his friends.

First I have to thank Running with Scissors for her Dino tail tutorial.  I had some really nice fleece to make this with so I had to line each tail with cotton, and I had tons of unpleasant cotton to do that with.  So double the cutting but still only sewing once as I did it all together.

These are the final tails, hanging on the treadmill.

Then I learnt how to make tissue paper pompom balls and turned them into dinosaurs too.  There are various posts on how to do this, you can google them quite easily.  I purchased my tissue paper and wire from the Dollar Store.  I made balls that were 10 inches diameter and tied the wire around. I just used regular string to hang them from the ceiling.

I had to have about 14inch card dinosaurs.  The tricky bit was ensuring the gap over the legs was long enough.  I held apart the middle section and slotted it down.  I also stapled the tissue paper to the cardboard, catching the hanging string so that it would hang easier.


 

The goody bags were from the Dollar store.  I downloaded some images of dinosaurs and pinned them on.  I used the dinosaur faces for a colouring activity for the kids.  These were then to be pinned to the hats I made.  The treats were dino squirties which I got from Indigo.  One per child along with some dinosaur stickers, which were from the Dollar Store.

Here are the faces for colouring and adding to the hats.  The hats were made from 8.5x11" card stock.  I just did a large semicircle and then cut some zig zag spikes with the offcuts and used the stapler to staple together.  Finally some elastic to go under the chin.

The last things I put together were eggs stuffed with mini dinosaurs for the dinosaur dig.  Now, this is Alberta, Canada.  We still have tons of snow and while other blogs may recommend an internal sandpit for a dinosaur dig, that isn't going to happen.  Luckily we had a shredder and lots of shredding, so I filled a box with eggs and we were all set.

 

And then I made the cake.  For K's birthday at daycare I'd just made some min-egg dinosaur nests but I wanted to do something special.  And I found this cake and loved it. K wanted a yellow one and I delivered.  T had fun putting on the buttons and I added the smarties after she'd got bored.

If you're wondering how the party went, it didn't.  K had a temperature of 39.5 the night before and by Saturday he was a wailing ball of snotty mess.  So maybe next time but at least all I have to do is bake the cake.  Actually, while I think about it, anyone want some cake?...