This is an activity link up where you can share your recipes and crafts based around a particular theme. This week focuses on dinosaurs and we have made Fossil Cookies, D is for Dinosaur Window Art and watched Dinosaur DVD.
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Dinosaur Fossil Cookies
Using a basic cookie recipe we transformed ordinary biscuits into fossil food! With the Mini Mes dinosaur toys, we pushed their feet deep into the cookies, almost all the way through, to create prints within them.
225g butter
110g caster sugar
275g plain flour
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Combine the ingredients together to form a dough.
- Roll into small balls and flatten slightly (to around 1cm thickness maximum).
- Push the toys into the cookie rounds to create the prints.
- Cook for 12-15 minutes until golden.
- Scoff!
D is for Dinosaur Window Art
With a capital D for the body, this cellophane dinosaur craft not only helps to teach about the alphabet but is pretty to display in windows to allow different colours to shine through into your room.
Equipment
Card
Pens
Scissors
Glue
Cellophane
Method
Draw a large capital d onto the card and cut it out, removing the centre too.
Using the D as a template, cut out a piece of cellophane the same size.
Attach the cellophane to the D using the glue.
Draw feet, a tail and neck with head onto the card, cut out and attach to the D with glue.
Draw on facial features, toes etc.
Allow a few minutes to dry completely.
Display in your window.
Dinosaur DVD
This movie is a family favourite where a group of dinosaurs face several challenges and learn about the importance of friendship along the way.
Aladar the iguanodon, separated from his parents as an egg, is raised by lemurs within a jungle. After a meteor shower destroys his homeland his journey begins to find a safe place to live.
If you have any dinosaur themed posts you can link them up below.
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Next week the theme will be Mermaids.
Great cookie idea....simple but effective!!
ReplyDeleteLAURA HARRIS
would love to watch the dinosaur movie with my son who loves dinosaurs and the cookies are great
ReplyDeleteI love the cookies - going to have to borrow that idea :)
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas. The boys like having days like this in the sunmer holidays. We did salt dough fossils last year but I am liking the idea of real cookies!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great day of entertainment! I'm going to have to try it with mine!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the cookie idea. So much so I've jotted it down to make with the kids this afternoon! The footprints in the cookies are a cool idea too. x
ReplyDeleteYay you did it!! We did a disneys dinosaur movie night last year, will have to blog it so I can be your first linky! lol xxx
ReplyDeleteFirst linky! Yay! We have a fun mermaids lunch for next week too! Love this idea :) xxx
Deletelol I need to make these, my son loves dinosaurs
ReplyDeletegreat ideas, love the cookies
ReplyDeleteFound you over on My Life As a Mummys blog hop :) Love the cookies, simple things are the best!! x
ReplyDeleteI love the cookie idea. I was planning on baking with Cameron next week, so am hoping to be able to do these.
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking up with The Weekend Blog Hop
Hope to see you again next weekend
Laura x x x
These look delicious :)
ReplyDeletegreat ideas and my sons love dinosaurs
ReplyDeleteMy son loves dinosaurs and we are trying to bake something every week so this recipe has just gone to the top of the list - thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe different colored cellophane in the Dinosaur Window Art is great. When the sunshine hits the window the rooms are bathed in different colors. Brightens up the rooms and cheaper than decorating, just change the colors in the cutouts every couple of weeks lol :)
ReplyDeleteOh we are going to have to add this to the 'to make' list too. Great idea & simple too :)
ReplyDeleteGoing to make the cookies with the kids tomorrow,great :)
ReplyDeleteFab idea, simple yet kids will love them
ReplyDeletemy son loves dinosaurs. so i will have to try all this :)
ReplyDeleteThe dinosaur fossil cakes are such a fantastic idea!
ReplyDeleteWhere do you get cellophane from?
ReplyDeleteIt's a super idea!
ReplyDeleteThese look lovely & fun too!!
ReplyDeletewow this looks great!!
ReplyDeleteThese look cool!
ReplyDeleteoooo fab idea ill b giving these a try
ReplyDeleteMy kid is doing dinosaurs at school so this is useful.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for cookies, we'll be doing this this afternoon
ReplyDeletelove the dinosaur window decoration idea and the cookies sound great :) x
ReplyDeleteMy little girls is mad on dinosaurs and these ideas for activities with her are great! Thank you x
ReplyDeleteKids would love making these...must give them a go :)
ReplyDeleteThese look really easy and fun to make :)
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of these they look so etheuntic cab't wait to try them
ReplyDeletelooks great going to give it a go
ReplyDeleteThese look great xx
ReplyDeletethese look really easy to make
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant idea, we will try this weekend.
ReplyDeleteLovely create :-)
ReplyDeleteThese were lovely!
ReplyDeleteMy son loves dinosaurs, he would love this x
ReplyDeleteHave to do these with my son - he would love it!
ReplyDeleteAshleigh
my grandson loves dinosaurs I will have to do this with him, he will love it
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
ReplyDeleteLove the cookie idea, just thinking what other toys could be used to do this.
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