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🦕The Ultimate Dino Day Guide for Dino-Loving Kids of All Ages
With the launch of our Dino Biscuits and the upcoming “National Dinosaur Day” on June 1st, we are celebrating everything dino! Dinosaurs capture the imaginations and curiosities of so many children (and adults). We have compiled some of our favorite dino-inspired foods, products, games, and movies & shows. How will you be celebrating #NationalDinosaurDay (or whenever you want to have a roaring good time)?
Dinosaur Themed Food & Recipes
Your junior paleontologist will dig these dino snack and meal ideas!
🦕 Dino Egg Rice Krispie Treats
Photo: Twosisterscrafting.com
Make Two Sisters Crafting’s Dino Egg Rice Krispie® Treats and wow the guests at your next prehistoric party.
🦕 Prehistoric Parfait Dinosaur Snack
Follow Confessions of a Dietitian on instagram for this amazing Prehistoric Parfait using our Beech-Nut dino biscuits with prebiotics — available at Walmart.
🦕 Dino Chicken & Vegetable Nuggets
Photo: Perdue
For little carnivores, serve these Perdue Chicken Breast & Vegetable Dino Nuggets. Hmmm, we know where else you can find dinos with hidden veggies…
🦕 Herbivore Veggie Cups
Photo: Love to Know
A Brontosaurus, the ancient world’s most famous herbivore, would gladly munch on these herbivore veggie cups, by Love to Know, at a dino party. Especially with some Ranch dressing sitting at the bottom.
🦕 Dino Bento Box Lunch
Melissa Rifkin strikes again with a cohesive + creative + cretaceous + crust-less lunch idea. Bento box for the win.
Dinosaur Movie & TV Shows
These are some of our favorite shows and movies to watch with our dino-obsessed kids.
🦕 Dinosaur Train (PBS)
Photo: PBS Kids
🎵 Once upon a time, there was a mom. Her name was Mrs. Pteranodon (silent p). All aboard for this educational show.
🦕 Bob the Builder: The Big Dino Dig Movie
Photo: Bob the Builder/Paramount
Got a Paramount Plus subscription? Watch The Big Dino Dig movie. Bob is building a dinosaur-themed fun park with a giant roller coaster and fantastic rides and unearths dinosaur bones on site. Disney World fans will note that this story sounds like the fate of another dino-themed amusement park.
For more 🦖 dino movies, check out Fatherly’s list of The 7 Best Movies for Kids Who Love Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Books & Toys
Looking for gift ideas? Check out our favorite items below for nonstop dino fun!
🦕 National Geographic Fossil Dig Kit
Photo: Amazon – National Geographic
These real fossils are millions of years old! (Really!) Contemplate the passage of time, while digging for dinosaurs, sharks, brachiopods, mosasaurs, ammonites, and more with this dig kit.
🦕Dino Memory Card Game from Ravensburger
Photo: Amazon – Ravensburger
Get your little one’s gears turning with this 15 minute, beautifully-illustrated memory game.
🦕 Wooden Dino Puzzle by Melissa & Doug
Photo: Amazon – Melissa & Doug
Melissa & Doug wooden toys are the tops– take this 3+ year old, 4-puzzle box kit on the road.
🦕 Dinosaur Dance! by Sandra Boynton
Credit: Boynton Bookworks
More than 85,000,000 of Sandra Boynton’s books have been sold since 1974. She sure can make those brontosauruses do the Boynton boogie in Dinosaur Dance!
At-Home Dinosaur Themed Activity Ideas
Need a fun at-home activity? These ideas will bring the prehistoric to you.
🦕 Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils
Photo: Make Life Lovely
Remember crafting with salt dough? (And sneaking a taste out of curiosity?) Bake these rock hard salt dough fossils simply using using flour, salt, water, and dino toys, then hide them around the house for archaelogists in training.
🦕 Dinosaur Coloring Pages from Motherly
Art: Motherly
Coloring books for adults are still a thing, right? They certainly are for kids. Motherly curated these printable dinosaur coloring pages.
🦕 Googly Eyed Glamosauruses- Craft Dinosaurs
Credit: Fantastic Fun and Learning
Get your dinos ready for the disco with this sparkly sequined craft from Fantastic Fun and Learning. Dinosaurs do dance, as we have read.
Dinosaur Emojis & Giphys & Memes
Copy & paste these dino emojis or share creator-made dino giphys & memes.
🦕 <– A Sauropod, a massive, plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck and tail.
🦖 < — A Tyrannosaurus Rex
🐱🐉 <– A cat sitting on a dino, of course.