05/18/2020
Dino Day! 🐊
We made dino footprint cookies and had a Dino scavenger hunt that ended in a 'real' dino excavation! We also watched some and YouTubed some clips of dino digs ( geared for kids) to get her in the mood.
It's always a great day when you start off baking cookies right ?! We made a very easy shortbread cookie recipe and then stomped our dinosaurs feet, tails, and faces into them, what a great way to play with your food! fill the foot print with chocolate chips or jam, or just leave plain! I'll post the full recipe at the bottom of this post!
Scavenger hunts ARE LILY'S JAM, I mean this kid gets so excited for scavenger hunts. I was trying to avoid sweets with this since we already made cookies. So to start Lily was handed a duffle bag and a dragon , I mean dinosaur costume 😁(we had on hand) and we read out the clues, with each clue there was a tool, anything you can think of to break or sweep clean, we gathered her hammer, screwdriver, magnifying glass, some nail brushes and paint brushes, even one of the brushes you dye your hair with😂. when she got to the end and found the dino excavations she was sooo excited and couldn't wait to find out what was inside them! The homemade dino digs were super simple to make and can easily be filled with any dino or whatever your kid is into!
Easy Shortbread Cookie Recipe
1 cup soften salted butter
1/2 cup icing sugar
3 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cup flour
beat the first three ingredient until lightened in colour. Add flour and mix until full incorporated. Roll into logs, plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes, cut and and place on a baking try and bake at 350°F for 12-15 min.
Dinosaur Excavation Recipe
1 cup used coffee grinds
1 cup flour ( my need more)
1/2 cup salt
1/4 cup sand
1/2 cup water ( may need more)
mix everything together if stays in the shape you mold it then you have the right texture grab half of the mixture needed to cover your dino, place dino inside add the other half of mix mold your shape. place it on a lined baking sheet and bake at 150°F for a couple hours until it is dried( time depends on size) , alternatively you can leave it out to dry for a couple weeks.
