Dinosaur Birthday Party Ideas for Kids

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Many dinosaur birthday parties are built around a jungle theme.

It's easy to create this steamy tropical setting with prehistoric beasts lurking in the shadows when you follow these simple dinosaur party ideas!

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Invitations

Have a lot of fun with these dinosaur birthday party ideas for invitations!

• Start with a cutout footprint of your child's favorite dinosaur. Tell guests to "Stomp on Over! (Name) is turning (age) and we're stepping up to celebrate!" Don't forget to add the time, date, and location details.
• Write on fine grit sandpaper with a heavy marker to tell guests "You've Invited to an Excavation!" On the back of the sandpaper, affix a piece of brown or white construction paper with the words: "We'll be digging up a lot of fun at (name's) birthday party! Join us at the quarry at (time) on (date) at (location) to get down with some dinosaurs!"
• Create a hatching egg invitation. Print or copy coloring pages that picture dinosaurs. Let your child color the pictures, and then carefully cut them out. Cut egg shapes (slightly larger than the cut out pictures) from cardstock, then center one dinosaur on each egg. Using more flexible construction paper, cut out egg shapes that are identical in size to the ones you mounted the dinosaurs to. Next, cut the new eggs across the width in a jagged line about a third of the way from the top. Then either staple or tape the very top and very bottom of the cracked eggs to the dinosaur egg on cardstock.
• Once assembled, write "We're hatching birthday fun!" on the outside, then fold the bottom half of the egg down and write "Come celebrate the (age) anniversary of the birth of our little dinosaur!" along with the time, date, and location of the party. All of them are perfect dinosaur birthday party ideas.
• Take a picture of your little T-rex in his most fierce dinosaur pose, or use this T-Rex dinosaur costume. Attach photos to cardstock and warn guests "Here's a rare opportunity to see this one of a kind (child's name)-o-saurus!" Include time, date, and location details for your dinosaur birthday party.

Decorations

A fun way to welcome guests to dinosaur birthday parties is to start at the sidewalk with footprints leading to the party. Create a wild array of tracks in all shapes and sizes and everyone will know to follow the herd to the door! If guests will pass by shrubbery on the way in, make dinosaur heads out of cardboard and paint. Set them up so they appear to be peeking out from the bushes. These prehistoric guests will delight everyone who passes by.

Inside, dinosaur birthday party ideas come to life when you let the jungle take over. Hang green and brown streamers from the ceiling in varying lengths, looping some over to look like vines. Drop balloons down among the streamers –green and yellow work well for a jungle effect.

Dinosaur birthday parties need volcanoes! Use construction paper or poster board to create a large volcano for one wall. After you draw lava creeping down from the peak, consider adding a bunch of red balloons over the crater for a lava explosion, or try white balloons for the appearance of venting steam.

In another part of the room, several large boxes make a great cave. Attach them with heavy duty tape and cut a path through the walls so kids can crawl all the way through. Decorate the surface of the cave – inside and out – with dinosaur bones cut from construction paper.

Go on an expedition for your dinosaur birthday party ideas!

Cut two or three large boxes down to a depth of about six inches. Fill partially with sand (if you are inside, uncooked rice isn't as messy) and bury Mini Dinosaurs.

If you have multiple dig sites, divide the kids into teams and challenge them to see which group finds all of their dinosaurs first. If there's only one dig in process, pick a dinosaur and the first kid to find it wins.

Enhance your collection of dinosaur birthday party ideas with a Dinosaurs personalized birthday banner.

The perfect table at dinosaur birthday parties starts with the Dinosaur deluxe pack. This package contains table setting for eight guests, as well as a centerpiece, balloons, ribbons, and confetti. To carry the jungle theme onto your table, set up leaves and greenery down the center. Write each child's name on Dino Cups with Straws. These egg-shaped cups will look perfect peeking out of the grassy centerpiece!

A T-Rex Piñata will be an eye catching addition to your table until you're ready to club it!

Food

When your dinosaur hunters get thirsty, try one of these drinks that are just right for dinosaur birthday parties:

• Lava – serve fruit punch with fruit punch ice cubes for that bubbling effect.
• Tropical smoothies – freeze mangos (or another fruit of your choice) and mix in a blender with a light tropical punch until the desired consistency is achieved.
• Chocolate milk – tropical river mud never tasted so good!

Dinosaur birthday party ideas for feeding herbivores:

• Create a veggie tray suitable for plant eaters with sliced cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes. Serve with ranch or cheese dip.
• Chocolate banana pops are easy to make. Peel bananas and carefully insert popsicle sticks about halfway up the fruit. Dip in melted chocolate and freeze overnight.
• The ever-popular "ants on a log" is as easy as filling celery stalks with peanut butter and presenting them with a line of raisins on top.
• Create "forest forage' with a snack mix. Toss in small candies or dry cereal for more variety.
• Chocolate pudding will make a convincing -- and delicious -- tar pit.

What to feed the carnivores:

• Meat-eaters won't be able to resist hearty meatballs. Serve with a side of Italian sauce.
• Chicken nuggets make perfect Dino-bites. Serve with ranch dressing or barbeque sauce.
• A pterodactyl wrap is as easy as lunchmeat and cheese rolled into a flour tortilla.
  

Next to the birthday kid, the cake is the star of the show. Try one of these dinosaur birthday party ideas that are perfect for dinosaur birthday parties.

• Before baking yellow cake, mix in blue food coloring. The result will be a tropical green surprise inside!
• Top a cake with green icing and Dino cake toppers. The 5" tall volcano is actually a candle, and the two 5" long dinosaurs bare their teeth, challenging the birthday kid for that first piece of cake.
• Make tracks by extending your dinosaur footprint theme to the cake. Ice the cake in lush green, then pipe in dinosaur tracks with a round tip. Include a volcano backdrop with brown icing, and pipe lava in with red.
• For a fun, festive cake, ice in a bright color and arrange T-rex jumbo jelly candy on top.

Party Favors

Send your guests home with Dinosaurs favor boxes, which come with a growing dinosaur egg, a glow stick, a sticker sheet, two tattoos, and toy binoculars. Preschoolers will love the Dino noses set while elementary aged guests will dig Dino mini video games.

Thank You Notes

Show your gratitude in a special way with candid photos of guests in action. Look through your party pictures and find the best shot of each child, or have them pose with props during the party. Be sure to thank everyone who was there to make yours one of the best dinosaur birthday parties ever!

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