Coolest Dinosaur Birthday Party Ideas
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Dinosaurs are one of the most exciting topics taught at school! No wonder a dinosaur birthday party is so popular with kids and so fun to prepare!
First off, here are several excellent Dinosaur birthday party packs with some really great items, including everything you'll need to set the prehistoric scene and keep the kids from eating like barbaric cavemen. Compare between them all and find the deal that best suits your needs:
- Pre-Historic Dinosaurs Party Supplies
- Dinosaurs Kits-n-Kaboodles
- Coolest Dinosaur Party Trinkets
- Land BeforeTime Party Supplies
- Dinosaurs in a Box Party Supplies
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Dinosaur Invitations
There are a whole lot of original dinosaur invitation ideas - here's my favorite: The flip-top broken dinosaur egg invitation...
Cut TWO identical egg-shaped pieces of cardboard stock paper or construction paper. Take one piece and cut it in half in a zigzag pattern. (You've just created the top and bottom halves of a broken egg.) Glue the bottom half exactly over the uncut oval cardboard.
On the top part of the uncut cardboard, write: "BREAKING NEWS! Dinosaurs discovered in (your hometown)!! Come and join in on the new discovery at our cave (address) - at (time). Please don't be extinct!! RSVP to prehistoric parents (phone #)." (You can also finish each kid's name with "-osaurus".)
Now, here's the coolest part! Take the top half of the cardboard you cut before and use a brass fastener to connect it over what you've just written. The fastener allows the top part (that's hiding the written part) to open upwards as if the egg is breaking.
Decorate the egg with pictures or drawings of dinosaurs and other colorful decorations. And you've got the coolest dinosaur birthday party invitation!
If you don't feel like doing all that work for a dinosaur birthday party invitation, you can place the invitations inside a dinosaur (Easter) egg or cut out a dinosaur footprint and decorate it.
Dinosaur Printables
Here's a complete page with our very own Dinosaur Party printable designs you can download and print for free. You'll find:
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Dinosaur Decorations
An excellent way to start your dinosaur birthday party decorating is by finding some pictures and clipart that'll give your imagination an artistic boost. (Here's my hand-picked selection of great dinosaur pictures, coloring pages, images and more to get you started...)
This ready-made personalized Dinosaur birthday party banner is excellent to hang in a prominent area of the party.
Cut out dinosaur footprints from brown paper and place them all over the house or yard. You can also have them lead up to your doorstep, or even use colored chalk to draw monster-size footprints. Get the whole family to smudge their hand and footprints on paper and hang it up all over the house.
You can also create a cardboard Jurassic Park entrance.
To get an idea, take a look at this pre-made awesome Dinosaur entrance design that you can make on your own out of cardboard.
To top off the prehistoric effect, cut out a dinosaur standee and photograph the kids with them for cool thank you cards to send off after the party.
It's also a great idea to sprinkle a bunch of miniature dinosaurs in every corner of the house or yard and hang dinosaur gliders from the ceiling.
Top Tip! Before you buy anything online, make sure to check out the Dinosaur supplies being offered on eBay. Often, you'll find new supplies at a fraction of what they cost at the stores:
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Costumes
Check out the cool homemade Jurassic costume ideas on coolest-homemade-costumes.com, the Web's largest gallery of homemade costumes. You'll find thousands of costumes submitted by visitors like yourself with photos and how-to tips.
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Dinosaur Icebreaker Activities
Cave Painting
Create a cave out of refrigerator or furniture boxes! Just open up the boxes and stand them up so that you are actually making a closed space. In the cave, place all sorts of markers, crayons and other art supplies so that when the kids come they can decorate the cave. (This'll help with the party decoration and add prehistoric ambience to the room!!).
You can also have the kids mark their handprints on pieces of paper and pin them up all around your cave and house. If you don't want to use boxes you can tape brown shipping paper on one wall of the room where the party will be taking place. Kids just LOVE to draw on walls and this is one of the most fun dinosaur birthday party activities!
Homemade Dinosaur Cakes
Check out the cool Dinosaur theme party cake ideas on coolest-birthday-cakes.com, the Web's largest gallery of homemade birthday cakes. You'll find thousands of cakes submitted by visitors like yourself with photos and how-to tips.
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Dinosaur Party Food and Drink
Dinosaur Birthday Party Food
Here are some ideas for your dinosaur birthday party "carnivore and herbivore cuisine". Put small signs on each just to make sure everyone understands that they are munching on real Jurassic foods... Also remember to decorate the all-important food table with large rocks, green plants and all sorts of other miniature dinosaur paraphernalia.
- PB&J-asaurus sandwiches (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cut into the shape of dinosaurs using dinosaur cookie cutters
- Dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets (available at the frozen food section of some of the large supermarkets)
- Dinosaur Bones (pretzel sticks)
- Pasta-Raptor Salad (pasta salad)
- Chicken wings for the meat eaters and a vegetable tray for the plant eaters.
- Bronto bites (BBQ meatballs)
- Brontosaurus Burgers
- Dino Dogs
- Tyrannosaurus Mex-Dip with Fossil Fries (potato chips)
- Hot lava (chili) and rocks (cornbread)
- Dino eggs: Hard-boil some eggs. After they cool, gently crack the shell all over, but don't remove it. Place the cracked eggs in a small bowl containing 3 cups of cool water and kool-aid mix (this is what gives the color). Then cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator overnight. On the day of the party, remove the eggshells and lo and behold, the egg looks like it has cracks all over it!
Dinosaur Birthday Party Drinks:
- Red punch as "Lava" Juice (you can also swirl in some orange sherbet into the punch for a thicker effect)
- Green soda pop (or 7up with green food coloring) as "Swamp water"
Tip: Add pop-rocks to the "Swamp Water" just as you serve to create an awesome bubbling effect!
Dinosaur Birthday Party Treats:
- Lava Jell-O (red jell-o) and Swamp water Jell-o (green jell-o) (Tip: You can place one well-washed plastic dinosaur into the Jell-o mix before letting it set-one that's small enough to fit into a dessert bowl, but large enough not to be a choking hazard.)
- Ice Age popsicles: Purchase popsicle molds where you buy the sticks separately (you can also use small paper cups in which you pour in the juice, cover with plastic wrap, poke craft wooden sticks through the plastic for popsicle handles, then when the popsicles are frozen peel of the paper). Fill the molds with any kind of juice (preferably something light colored like lemonade) and add a few dinosaur gummies or candies to each popsicle and freeze overnight.
- Fruit-a-saurus salad (fruit salad)
- Homemade dinosaur cookies
Dinosaur Party Favors
You can make your own favor packs with inexpensive items such as, growing dinosaurs, dinosaur tattoos, dinosaur gliders, mini dinosaurs, dinosaur erasers, dinosaur magnets, neon dinosaurs, pith helmets, binoculars, dinosaur wood craft kit, dinosaur key chains and every other imaginable dinosaur favor item.
Dinosaur Games and Activities
The dinosaur birthday party is filled with T-Rexiffic fun!!
Take a look at this complete page filled with the coolest Dinosaur party games, such as:
- Erupting Volcano
- Hot Dinosaur Egg
- Dino Egg Hunt
- and many more (including visitor-submitted game ideas)...
You should also read these VERY important tips to help you survive (and enjoy) game time!
Your Dinosaur Parties and Ideas
Lots of visitors from around the world have contributed their party ideas to this site! Click here to see another page full with lots more visitor-submitted Dinosaur birthday ideas.
We'd love for you to take a moment and submit your own Dinosaur party ideas.
Some of our visitors have gone the extra mile and written up their complete Dinosaur party story with photos and everything they did. We call these stories "Party Tales" and they serve as a great inspiration! Take a peek at other people's Dinosaur theme Party Tales and you're sure to find lots more outstanding Dinosaur party ideas:
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If you'd like share your complete party with us, then once your party is over, send us your own PARTY TALE and we'll create your very own theme party page and photo gallery that's hosted on our site! (Family, friends and just about anybody will be able to find inspiration from your child's birthday party and comment on YOUR ideas!)
I'm sure you'll have a dino-mite dinosaur birthday party!!!
