School Days–“Dd” Dinosaur Eggs

We had friends over to make dinosaur eggs with!  Everyone loved it!  The age ranges were from 2-9. 

What you Need

(This recipe is for a small batch. I doubled this recipe.)

    •1 cup flour

    •1 cup used coffee grinds

•1/2 cup salt

•1/4 cup sand

•3/4 cup water

•mixing bowl

•small plastic toy dinosaurs or other treasures

What you Do

Make sure you've dried out your coffee grinds beforehand.

(I did read in the comments that some readers asked if they really needed to be dried out since you are adding water anyway.  My coffee grounds were not completely dry and it still worked fine.)

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.

2. Slowly add the water and knead with your hands until the mixture is like bread dough.

(You may need to add more flour and sand to make it a dough-y consistency.  I added more flour and sand and it still baked out fine)

3. When the Coffee Dough is at a very moldable state, shape your "dino eggs" however you'd like. If you are putting trinkets in them, youll take your trinket and basically shape your rock around it, adding more dough to cover exposed parts of the toy.

(The kids made one that was a fossil.  It was their own idea and quite clever!  They just pressed on of the dinosaurs into the dough to make a print of the dino and it after it was baked it was a cool fossil.  It quickly got broken by one of the young kids trying to break open the egg to find the treasure.)

4. You can air dry these for several days OR bake them on a cookie sheet at 150 degrees for about 15-20 or until you poke them and they arent soft anymore.

(My dino eggs were fairly large, so I baked them for about 45 minutes to 1 hour)

Waiting for the eggs to bake.

I love that my friends youngest two are within a month or two from my kids!

Once they were done and cooled off a bit, I threw them in our sandbox and let them find the treasures.