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This is a super easy and fun craft where the kids can make their own dinosaur eggs and then hatch them too! Brilliant.

DIY hatching dinosaurs

What you’ll need:

plastic baby dinosaurs
baking soda
water
food colouring (optional)
white vinegar

Method:

Mix baking soda with a few drops of food colouring if desired. Slowly add water until the mixture is damp and mouldable but not too wet.
Place some of the dough in your hand and place a baby dinosaur on top of it and then cover with more dough to make an egg. Repeat if you want more than one egg.
Leave the eggs to dry overnight.
Place the eggs in the garden and get the kids to hatch them. The kids can chip away at the egg with a stick to find the dinosaur or give them a spray bottle filled with white vinegar and the egg will dissolve away and hatch.

What a brilliant and fun activity for the kids to do! I really love this.

Did you try it? Please add your comment below.

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- - mom81879 said
  - 28 Nov 2019
    10:07 am
I read, re read, and re read this a few times and I just don’t get how it works. Baking soda and water to make a dough, would that even work?

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- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Sep 2016
    9:06 pm
haha what a brilliant activity! this would really impress my kids! total fun!
- mom93821 replied
  
  31 Dec 2018 , 8:54 pm
  It is brilliant and the type of activities that kids love.
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- - ella12 said
  - 30 Aug 2016
    4:09 pm
That is just awesome, so cool!

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- - Melissa89 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    11:21 am
What a fantastic idea! Very creative

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- - Nas01 said
  - 22 May 2016
    10:08 am
What a fantastic idea. One of my sins is crazy about dinos do he will love this.

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- - serotonin said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    8:47 pm
What a fun idea! Will have to try this; kids will love it!

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- - mom62624 said
  - 26 Apr 2016
    4:43 am
A fantastic idea; the kids would love this and can’t wait to make some hatching dinosaurs!.

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- - mom81879 said
  - 25 Apr 2016
    8:45 pm
Great little school holiday activity right here. I think I like the spray bottle of water to dissolve the egg away

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- - meedee said
  - 09 Apr 2016
    9:47 pm
oh my goodness this is brilliant and so much fun.
I just need to find some children young enough to delight in this.

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- - mom101628 said
  - 01 Apr 2016
    3:22 pm
Very clever idea.

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- - rovermum said
  - 31 Mar 2016
    10:20 am
My nephew is dinosaur mad. He would love this. What a great activity for us to do together.

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- - mom134803 said
  - 31 Mar 2016
    3:35 am
What a cute idea !

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- - curlytops said
  - 27 Mar 2016
    9:00 pm
My child used to love doing this. great idea to do your own. good party activity too as you can bury something to do with the theme!

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- - mom103920 said
  - 27 Mar 2016
    9:56 am
This is a brilliant activity Jessica. Thanks for sharing this one. Can’t wait to try it over these school holidays.

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- - youngoldlady said
  - 26 Mar 2016
    1:19 pm
So easy and the children can have fun. A great one for egg hunts for those that can not have chocolate or sugar eggs.

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- - mom93821 said
  - 26 Mar 2016
    10:42 am
Love this creative and wonderful fun project. Terrific!

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- - kathryn said
  - 25 Mar 2016
    7:37 pm
I just love this idea and can’t wait to make some dinosaur eggs!

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- - mum4107 said
  - 25 Mar 2016
    5:07 am
Oh I love this. Something else for us to create over the holidays. Thank you

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- - june11 said
  - 24 Mar 2016
    10:51 pm
I have 2 “young” dinosaur fans and one “old” fan.
I think our house is going to be invaded by dinosaurs (not just one or two either).

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- - mom90758 said
  - 24 Mar 2016
    5:29 pm
Oh! This is just adorable! What a great way to go egg-hunting!!

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