Browsing Tag

dinosaur

Dinosaur ‘fossils’

My mum and I went to a community course many many moons ago to make salt dough creations and I remember having great fun. So when I was trying to work out a way to do dinosaur ‘fossil’ imprints I thought – salt dough!

It’s super easy to make and fun to play with. All you need is 300 g flour, 200 ml water and 300 g salt. Mix it all up, roll it out and go for it!

Master D got a slab of the dough and using his mini dinosaur toys made ‘fossil’ imprints. Next we used a dinosaur cookie cutter to make larger t-rex outlines (we tried using it properly but the hands and tail kept breaking).

Since we had extra salt dough I couldn’t resist doing Little Miss Q’s foot and hand print 🙂 And she was a very obliging model. Then we popped our creations in the oven at 180° for around 30 minutes.

The next day we got painting – using pva paint (1 part pva glue and 2 parts poster paint). Here are our results:

We might keep this in mind for Christmas decorations too! And here is one of Master D’s paintings using his mini dinos as paint brushes:

After this he painted his arms green to ‘go dino’!

Thanks for reading, Kelly

November 1, 2011 by

Dinosaur dress-ups

I think I may have mentioned that Master D (3) is dinosaur mad?! So instead of just letting the dinosaur fever pass, I’ve embraced it – this week is going to be all about dinosaurs, with a few other letter ‘D’ things thrown in 🙂 Even our dress-up box has ‘gone dino’.

Recently I started learning how to sew. Luckily my mum and mother-in-law have given me some lessons and lots of help! And, I’ve found some fantastic patterns and tutorials in blogland (love the sharing!).

For my third sewing attempt I made a dinosaur tail, using a great tutorial from Running with Scissors. It was super easy to follow and I’m really happy with the result 🙂 (especially if you ignore the ‘could be neater’ sewing at the base of the tail).

Little Miss Q – ‘going dino’

After Master D played dino in the tail for awhile he asked if I could make a dino hat too. So I jumped online and found a pattern and tutorial at From an Igloo. It was fun to make although it turned out a little small for Master D, so Little Miss Q now gets to ‘go dino’ too. Next I tried an ‘upcycled’ dress-up version for Master D (and it also fits me). Actually, I really quite like wearing it, even though my husband first thought I was a chook!

Thanks for reading, Kelly

October 30, 2011 by