Dino Blast Birthday Party Theme

The best thing about having a dinosaur party theme is that boys and girls both can have a great time and it is exciting for all kids. Also kids of different age-groups can join in. This theme is a versatile theme that has a lot of scope.

Ideas for Making the Invitation

You can use a cream color construction paper and make a big bone shape. Cut the extra paper and out-line the bone with a marker.
Inside the bone or at the back of the card write the party details. Get this laminated (optional). 
Make a dinosaur out of another brown construction paper or use a print-out of a dinosaur from the net with a mouth open wide. Carefully cut out the extra paper and have a complete dinosaur. Laminate the dinosaur. 
Now place the bone birthday invitation inside the mouth of the dinosaur and stick it with a cello-tape or glue and send the dinosaur invitation.

Another way of inviting would be to send out plastic dinosaurs with the laminated bone invitation (as mentioned above) in their hands or mouth.

Poems for the Invitation:

Get ready Master/Miss. (Guest Name) for a Big Dinosaur Blast as you have been invited for a Dino Blast Birthday Party arranged by the (Your Surname) Family for their son’s/daughter’s (Name)’s (age)th Birthday  at (venue), on (date), from (time).

Be ready for a BIG ROARR and send us a big ROARR to let us know if you will be able to make it before (Date) (i.e 3-4 days before the party) RSVP on (Number) or (email id)….

Don’t forget to get your binoculars, pith helmet and a dinosaur book....!!!

Gifting Ideas

You can gift Dinosaur shaped chocolates, dino dough stamps, dino colouring book, dino scientific explorer kit, etc. fill the goodies in a dinosaur paper bag. You can either make the bag at home or get a paper bag from dollar shop and make dino-cutouts and sitck them in the front. 

Decorate lunch bags with dino stickers.  Add more inside, dino pencil, dino cookies and a cookie cutter, etc

Decoration

1. Create a wild atmosphere with greenery all around the place. Use lots of green, brown and black crepe paper.

2. Hang brown and green streamers from the ceiling. Make tree cut-outs from construction paper. Use brown colour for the bark and green for the leaves. Use green, yellow and brown balloons.

3. Stick dinosaur stickers all over the walls. Also if your have a big dinosaur stuff toy place it at the centre.

4. You can rent a dinosaur jumping castle and place it in the backyard.

5. If you are good at drawing you can draw a huge dinosaur face on construction paper and stick it like it’s popping out of a tall tree.

On the Arrival

Dino Decos: Cut out dinosaur shapes from construction paper.  Let the kids decorate them with lace, glitter, dyed macaroni and rice, felt pens, etc. Make sure you write their names on the back so that you can give it when they leave as a souvenir.

You can also make dinosaur head-gears for the kids and let them decorate it.

Fun Games

1. Dino Awards: You can play the below games keep the winners a secret. After all the games are done ask the guests to sit while you set up a stage for giving away the trophies.

• Lucky Dino Award: Ask each guest to write their name on a piece of paper (chit) and put it in a jar. At the end of the party ask the birthday to remove one chit and the child whose name is in that chit gets the Lucky Dino Award.
• Best Hunter Award: Similarly, play treasure hunt by hiding a number of plastic dino’s or dino eggs all around the house the child who finds the maximum dinos get the Best Hunter Award.
• Loud Roar Dino Award: Similarly ask the kids to Roar like a Dino. Choose the one who roars the loudest and he gets the Loud Roar Dino Award.
• Fastest Dino Award: Dino Feet Walk Race: Make "dino feet" out of empty cereal boxes.  Lay them flat and cut an X into the top of each so the boys can put their feet in them like shoes. Covered each box with colored funny foam cut into the shape of dino footprints. The boys put their feet into the boxes like a huge pair of shoes.  Give them each a big spoon with a dino egg on it (hard-boiled egg). They have to walk/stomp their way across the room and dump the egg into the nest. You can award the winner for this game as the Fastest Dino Award.
• Similarly, have the tallest dino award, sharp teeth dino award, healthiest dino award.
• Try not to repeat any of the award winners.

2. Fossil Dig: Hide plastic bones or use real bones and hide them in sand or plastic childs swimming pool. If using real bones, boil them for 1 and half hour, take off all meat, bake it at 350 degrees for snother one hour and spray primer and paint the bones white. Ask the kids to dig and drill and find dino bones.

3. Hatch the Dino Eggs: You need balloons and plastic dinosaurs to play this. Put a plastic dino in each balloon and blow the balloons prior to the party.

Divide the kids in 2 teams. The two teams have to stand in a line like you stand in relay.. The first child gets his balloon to burst by sitting on it. Only after he is able to burst his egg, will the next child in his team get the chance. The team that has all members burst their eggs first wins.

4. Volcano's: Volcano's are always fascinating. A great, quick, craft for kids is to make their own miniature volcano . Have kids make a mound of sand around a Dixie cup. Let them scoop a couple spoonfuls of baking soda into the cup. Off to the side provide each child with a small cup of vinegar (add some dye for color) and let them pour the vinegar into the dixie cup. AWESOME! 

5. Dino Foot-Print Walk: Make dino foot-prints on paper and stick them on the floor. Play musical chair by playing the Jurassic park track.

6. Bone-Drop: You need a chair, bone-shaped biscuits and 2 bowls to play this game. Place one bowl on a and the other bowl on the floor. Fill the bowl on the floor with biscuits. Make the child kneel and put the biscuits in the bowl on the chair with his mouth without breaking or dropping the biscuit. One drop or break means the child is out. Mark the number of biscuits each child is able to put in the bowl. The one that has max in wins.

7. Dinosaur Tail: An outdoor game that begins like tag. Birthday child is "it". As soon as he/she tags a guest they hold hands and together proceed to tag another guest who joins the link "tail". Keep going until the tail is complete.

8. Pin the Tooth on the Dinosaur: Enlarge an image of an open-mouth Tyrannosaurus Rex. Make enough paper teeth for each child and put their name on front. Blindfold and turn child three times before letting them go. Give a party prize to the tooth that comes the closest.

9. Bowling Bones: Use empty pop cans and a ball to make a bone bowling game! Cover 10 cans with paper, and draw a simple bone on each can. Every player should take a few turns and receive a small prize.

Fun Games

1. Dino Awards: You can play the below games keep the winners a secret. After all the games are done ask the guests to sit while you set up a stage for giving away the trophies.

• Lucky Dino Award: Ask each guest to write their name on a piece of paper (chit) and put it in a jar. At the end of the party ask the birthday to remove one chit and the child whose name is in that chit gets the Lucky Dino Award.
• Best Hunter Award: Similarly, play treasure hunt by hiding a number of plastic dino’s or dino eggs all around the house the child who finds the maximum dinos get the Best Hunter Award.
• Loud Roar Dino Award: Similarly ask the kids to Roar like a Dino. Choose the one who roars the loudest and he gets the Loud Roar Dino Award.
• Fastest Dino Award: Dino Feet Walk Race: Make "dino feet" out of empty cereal boxes.  Lay them flat and cut an X into the top of each so the boys can put their feet in them like shoes. Covered each box with colored funny foam cut into the shape of dino footprints. The boys put their feet into the boxes like a huge pair of shoes.  Give them each a big spoon with a dino egg on it (hard-boiled egg). They have to walk/stomp their way across the room and dump the egg into the nest. You can award the winner for this game as the Fastest Dino Award.
• Similarly, have the tallest dino award, sharp teeth dino award, healthiest dino award.
• Try not to repeat any of the award winners.

2. Fossil Dig: Hide plastic bones or use real bones and hide them in sand or plastic childs swimming pool. If using real bones, boil them for 1 and half hour, take off all meat, bake it at 350 degrees for snother one hour and spray primer and paint the bones white. Ask the kids to dig and drill and find dino bones.

3. Hatch the Dino Eggs: You need balloons and plastic dinosaurs to play this. Put a plastic dino in each balloon and blow the balloons prior to the party.

Divide the kids in 2 teams. The two teams have to stand in a line like you stand in relay.. The first child gets his balloon to burst by sitting on it. Only after he is able to burst his egg, will the next child in his team get the chance. The team that has all members burst their eggs first wins.

4. Volcano's: Volcano's are always fascinating. A great, quick, craft for kids is to make their own miniature volcano . Have kids make a mound of sand around a Dixie cup. Let them scoop a couple spoonfuls of baking soda into the cup. Off to the side provide each child with a small cup of vinegar (add some dye for color) and let them pour the vinegar into the dixie cup. AWESOME! 

5. Dino Foot-Print Walk: Make dino foot-prints on paper and stick them on the floor. Play musical chair by playing the Jurassic park track.

6. Bone-Drop: You need a chair, bone-shaped biscuits and 2 bowls to play this game. Place one bowl on a and the other bowl on the floor. Fill the bowl on the floor with biscuits. Make the child kneel and put the biscuits in the bowl on the chair with his mouth without breaking or dropping the biscuit. One drop or break means the child is out. Mark the number of biscuits each child is able to put in the bowl. The one that has max in wins.

7. Dinosaur Tail: An outdoor game that begins like tag. Birthday child is "it". As soon as he/she tags a guest they hold hands and together proceed to tag another guest who joins the link "tail". Keep going until the tail is complete.

8. Pin the Tooth on the Dinosaur: Enlarge an image of an open-mouth Tyrannosaurus Rex. Make enough paper teeth for each child and put their name on front. Blindfold and turn child three times before letting them go. Give a party prize to the tooth that comes the closest.

9. Bowling Bones: Use empty pop cans and a ball to make a bone bowling game! Cover 10 cans with paper, and draw a simple bone on each can. Every player should take a few turns and receive a small prize.

Food Ideas

1. Chicken Wings: Dinosaurs love to eat chicken so a KFC’s Chicken bucket would be just apt.

2. Mini Burgers: Prepare small burgers for the kids. You can tag it as Mc.Dino.

3. Chocolate Dirt Ice-Cream: Let the kids make their own dirt by topping the chocolate ice-cream scoop with squiggly gummy  worms, choclate chips, rock candy, a spoon full of powder chocolate biscuits.

4. Carrot and Mooli Salad: check the recipe on this blog http://bohra-gourmet.blogspot.com/2011/02/carrot-and-mooli-salad.html

5. American Chopsuey: Noodles/Pasta would work well so you can make American Chopsuey. Make sure it is less spicy. http://bohra-gourmet.blogspot.com/2010/12/american-chopsuey.html

6. Hard Boiled Eggs: How can we forget the eggs of the Dinosaur? Serve hard boiled eggs in a bowl let the kids pick up one full egg and then you can cut them into four. Sprinkle salt and pepper on top and let the kids enjoy their healthy meal.

7. Dino-Sandwich: Use a dinosaur cutter and make dino shaped sandwiches. You can sprinkle some rice on top of the sandwich that gives it a dinosaur skin. Decorate it with a piece of chicken or fish on the side and top it with some ketchup.

8. Dinosaur Cake: Bake/Order a dino birthday cake.

9. Dinosaur Ice-Cream Sticks: Fill Sprite in ice-cream stick moulds and put a dinosaur shaped jelly bean inside every mould. Freeze this. Give the kids their ice-cream sticks and let them discover their dinosaur.