Make Life Lovely

Your DIY Guide to a Lovelier Life

  • Home
  • About
    • My Story
    • Contact
    • PR/Press
    • Terms
  • DIY / Crafts
    • Crafts
    • Gifts
    • For the Home
    • Kids
    • Memories
    • Paper
    • Parties
    • Printable
  • Holidays
    • Valentine’s Day
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • Easter
    • Mother’s Day
    • Father’s Day
    • Fourth of July
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
    • New Year’s Eve
  • Food
    • Bread
    • Dessert
    • Drink
    • Main Dish
    • Side Dish
    • Soup
  • Fashion
    • Accessories
    • Beauty
    • Clothes
  • Travel

How to Make Dinosaur Eggs {with a Hidden Surprise Inside!}

April 17, 2019 By Laura 4 Comments

1788shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

I’m so excited to share with you something really cool today- DIY dinosaur eggs with a hidden surprise inside!

This dinosaur eggs recipe is super easy, very quick to make, and is a ton of fun for kids to break open to reveal a cool surprise inside.  Kids love everything about these dinosaur eggs!

Easy 3 ingredient DIY dinosaur eggs that break open to reveal a surprise! These dinosaur eggs are perfect for a dinosaur party favor or fun activity.

I’m also sharing a quick and easy dinosaur favor bag tutorial with my Cricut Explore Air 2 machine that makes the perfect bag for holding one of these DIY dinosaur eggs!

This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a small percentage of purchases made through these links at no extra cost to you.

Dinosaur Eggs with a Fun Surprise Inside

Supplies:

  • 2 cups sand
  • 1 cup cornstarch
  • Water
  • Plastic dinosaurs

Directions:

Dinosaur eggs recipe

Step 1.  Stir the sand and cornstarch together well in a mixing bowl.  Add water, stirring in a small amount at a time, until the dough comes together.

How to make dinosaur eggs

Dinosaur egg

Step 2.  Grab a handful of the dough, place a toy dinosaur inside, then add some more dough to form an egg shape and completely cover the dinosaur.

Dinosaur eggs and easy dinosaur egg recipe

Repeat with the rest of the dough.  Place the dinosaur eggs outside to dry for about 2 days, or until each dinosaur egg has completely hardened.

DIY dinosaur eggs

Dinosaur eggs

Step 3.  Now comes the fun part.  Time to crack open some dinosaur eggs!

These dinosaur eggs for kids are hard, but not too hard.  Kids can drop them on the ground to break them, break them open with their hands, or use a small hammer to break them open.  Aren’t they cool?!

My kids pretended that each of their eggs was a dinosaur egg fossil.

I made these dinosaur eggs as party favors for my son’s dinosaur birthday party and the kids LOVED them.  I wish I had made more because they were so excited about tearing open their bags and breaking their diy dinosaur eggs!

How to make dinosaur eggs for a dinosaur party

I packaged up their dinosaur eggs by making some easy bag toppers with some brown card stock and some vinyl dinosaurs I made using my Cricut Explore Air™ 2 machine machine.  It was so easy and they looked amazing!

I’m sharing the FREE dinosaur fossils cut file so you can make some of your own bag toppers if you’d like.  Seriously, these couldn’t be much easier to make.

Dinosaur party favor bags

First, click here to open the cut file in Cricut Design Space.

Load some white vinyl onto a cutting mat.  Turn the dial on the Cricut Explore Air 2 machine to the vinyl setting, then click “Make It” in Design Space.  Follow the prompts to cut the vinyl.

Dinosaur eggs with surprise inside

I guarantee you’ll be impressed with how amazing these vinyl dinosaur fossils turn out.  I made them quite small, and the details that the machine was able to perfectly cut were FANTASTIC!

You can make the dinosaur favor bag topper any size you like depending on the size of the plastic bag you use.  I bought some clear plastic favor bags at the craft store, then placed one dinosaur egg inside each bag.

Next I cut some brown card stock to match the width of the bag, folded the paper in half, then cut each end to make the topper.

Dinosaur egg fossil

Peel and stick a vinyl dinosaur and press it onto the cardstock for the cutest bag topper, perfect for a dinosaur party!

I hope you enjoyed learning how to make dinosaur eggs.  This dinosaur egg recipe is so simple and it makes the coolest dinosaur eggs.

More awesome dinosaur ideas-

Dinsoaur party

Dinosaur Party

Dinosaur dig cake at dinosaur party

How to Make a Dinosaur Dig Cake (and amazing chocolate cake recipe!)

How to make DIY dinosaur fossils for kids dino dig party

How to Make Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils

DIY dinosaur dig activity for dinosaur birthday

DIY Dinosaur Dig Activity

Dinosaur snack mix recipe

Dinosaur Snack Mix Recipe

signature

This post was originally published in September 2017 and was updated in April 2019.

1788shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

About Laura

Hi! I'm Laura, owner and creator of Make Life Lovely, a creative blog filled with creative craft tutorials, DIY projects, party tips, holiday ideas, home decor, and so much more! Make Life Lovely is dedicated to making everyday life more lovely, and I hope to inspire you and show you how!

Let's Be Friends!



Comments

  1. Betsy says

    May 31, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    How many dino eggs does this recipe make? As in – how many times would I need to multiply for 30 eggs?

    Reply
    • Laura says

      July 23, 2018 at 12:28 am

      Sorry I missed your comment Betsy. I really wish I remembered! It definitely made a hadful of eggs, but I’m not sure of the exact number. My eggs were pretty big because my dinos were long, but you could use smaller dinosaurs if you wanted to get more eggs out of one recipe. Hope that helps!

      Reply
  2. heistheyare says

    June 13, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    how many eggs were you able to make with the 2 cups of sand posted above?

    Reply
    • Laura says

      July 23, 2018 at 12:23 am

      Great question! I don’t remember an exact number but I’d say at least 5.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *



[footer_backtotop]

Copyright © 2021 · Genesis Framework · Design by Key Lime Digital Designs · Log in

Privacy Policy