Dinosaur party gamesYour kid guests will have so much fun playing dinosaur party games, they won't have time to be scared!
This a wonderfully imaginative theme for a children's party - combining that element of the unknown with some Flintstone fun! Of course, people weren't around when the dinos were stomping their way across the earth, but your cavemen and caveladies will love getting into the swing of a dino footprint relay, or a dino egg hunt! And if you want to combine some familiar kids' party game fun into your dino theme, why not play "Fred Says" instead of Simon Says, and prepare a dinosaur pass the parcel whilst playing the music from the Flintstones? The pic above is one we took on our visit to London - and what a terrifying face this T-Rex has! So let's start with something a little more cute, as we kick off our selection of games with a dino egg activity :) Hunt the dino egg
You can use ping pong balls for this game. Use a marker pen to color your eggs brown or gray, leaving some bits white to create a "natural" look! Then hide them all around the house, and send your kids on a dino egg hunt. It's a good idea to have a few more eggs than kid guests so that you don't end up with one child searching desperately for the last egg! Each child that finds an egg could win a small prize such as a mini dino figure. Why not prepare a little "nest" from a basket with some leaves and twigs and put your dino eggs in there to make a table decoration? Dino drawHere's a super simple craft activity. If you have younger children at your party, they might like to color in this dragon:
Alternatively, give your kiddies a sheet of blank paper and a pencil, and ask them to invent their own dinosaur! You could look at your pictures of dinos from above to give them some ideas. The most impressive dinos have
Then the kids can color in their dinosaur and give it a name.
Footprint relayPrepare two sets of large dinosaur footprint cut-outs and arrange them for two teams on the floor - it's good if you can affix them in some way. You'll also need a box with various soft toy animals.Keeping their feet together, the kids have to jump from print to print until the end, where they have to "rescue" a soft toy, then jump back to the start, where they throw the toy into a box, and the next player can start. The first team to finish wins! Pin the tail on the dinosaurYou'll need a large picture and a large tail! As well as a soft blindfold. Write the name of each child on the spot where they pin the tail, and the best placed, of course, is the winner.The loudest, longest, fastest, highest, scariest dino party game!It's all action here as you ask the kids together to perform
Dino digThis game requires a sandpit, a set of small plastic dinosaurs or dino "bones", and a blindold.Hide the dinos in the sandpit. Then blindfold each child in turn. They have thirty seconds (counted slowly!) to find as many dinos as they can. Simple and fun! Dino I.D.If your kids know the names of some dinosaurs (and some children who are absolutely crazy about them are real experts!) then why not pin up some dino pix around the room and get your guests to identify them.You can number the pictures and get the children to write a list with the answers. Or you could provide the answers written out on pieces of card with a bit of sticky tac on the back, and the kids have to decide together which name goes with which picture, and then they go and stick them on. |
