dinosaur rocks

or eggs, or fossils... what ever you want to call them.

they were fun, they were easy and they were inexpensive to make.

here's what you need:

1 cup of dirt

1/2 cup of sand

1/2 cup of used coffee grounds

1 1/4 cups of flour

3/4 cup of salt

plastic dinosaurs

water

(you don't have to look hard for sand or dirt, just go in your backyard. mine was full of leaves and sticks and i just think it added to the effect)

FYI: i doubled this recipe and it made enough to make 12 rocks.

and this is what you do:

1. Mix together dirt, sand, coffee grounds, flour and salt.

2. Slowly stir in water until you get a dough like texture.

3. Mold the dough around each of the plastic dinosaurs.

4. Let it air dry for a few days or place in the oven at 200 degrees for about 2 hours, flipping once after one hour. ( I did mine in the oven and they turned out great!)

during the party we gave each child a rock, a small block of wood and a wooden skewer. they used the block like a hammer and the skewer like a chisel. i was pleased with how long it took them to get into them. the perfect about of time, not to hard and not to easy.

of course i found this idea on Pinterest. Yeah for pinterest!