Create your own game while you dabble in discovery and history.
What You Need:
2 and 1/2 cups flour
2 and 1/2 cups of dirt
1 cup sand
1 and 1/2 cups of salt
water
small plastic toy dinosaurs (available from toys stores)
hammer
What You Do:
To make the dough, mix all the dry ingredients together (flour, dirt, salt and sand).
Gradually stir in enough water so that the mix holds together .
Shape handfuls of dough around the small plastic dinosaurs in the form of egg shapes.
Give these "eggs" up to 4 days to dry then you can let the kids discover them in the garden.
They can open them with a hammer or rock.
They are great for parties and hide and seek games.
Addtional Suggestions:
Robin, a parent, has these helpful tips to add to the project:
Make sure that you turn the eggs a lot while they dry. I found out that in the early summer you still have dew (at least in New England) and the bottoms of the eggs
stay moist. I had to take them in at night so they would keep dry.
Instead of children digging for eggs in a sand box, why not make it look like corral, using more sand than mud and giving it texture by making little holes in it with a fork or a pencil. Then instead of dinosaurs use plastic coin. Bury them in a sand box and the children can be treasure hunters looking for lost pirates treasure.
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