Dinosaur Birthday Party Ideas for a Prehistorically Fun Time (2024)

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How do you plan a dinosaur party? ›

In Dino Party, each player adopts a species of dinosaur and attempts to save it from certain destruction by throwing adorable dinosaur meeples onto an ever-increasingly inhospitable board! Land them in the fields or caves, and you'll have some happy dinos.

Set up a “dig site” where kids can search for buried dinosaur bones or fossils. Create a dinosaur scavenger hunt, where kids have to find different dinosaur figurines hidden around the party area. For more hands-on activity, have the kids make their own dinosaur masks or hats using construction paper and markers.

Taking some of your sand mix, place a plastic dinosaur on top of the mix in your hand. Add the sand mix on top of the dinosaur, and begin packing around the sides. Continue adding the sand, flour, salt and coffee grounds mixture and form into an egg to completely cover the dinosaur.

The game: The youngest player starts by rolling the dice. The colour shown on the dice is the colour of the egg that the player has to rescue from the T-Rex nest. The player takes the tweezers and tries to lift up the leaf as carefully as possible, to get the egg from the nest.

Enter the fun prehistoric world of Moschops the Therapsid and all his dinosaur friends in this classic 80s British children's animated series.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

It's undoubtedly one of the most impressive dinos around, which is why we love it so much.

Some kids will enjoy learning about dinosaurs because they are so beautiful and interesting to look at, as are their fossils and skeletons. Kids can learn a lot about biodiversity from looking at and learning about dinosaurs and dinosaur bones, and they can come to appreciate the beauty in anatomy and biology.

How do you introduce a dinosaur topic? ›

Asking questions and talking about ways to figure out the answers to those questions together is one way to introduce the topic of dinosaurs. Studying dinosaurs is also a great way to encourage children to use their observation skills.

Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs is a popular children's book written by Ian Whybrow. It tells the story of Harry, a young boy who, one day, finds some plastic dinosaur toys in his nan's attic. He gives them a good clean and looks after them, learning all their names and taking them with him everywhere he goes.