Homemade Dinosaur Fossils

Step One: Make Salt Dough. This is so easy to make. All you need to do is mix 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt and 1 cup of water together in a bowl. I mixed it with my hands. If the dough feels too dry add a little more water, and it the dough feels sticky add a bit more flour. We added play dinosaurs, a plastic cup and spoon, and a play rolling pin to their high chairs. My boys loved making footprints in the dough, hiding their dinosaurs in a ball, and filling and emptying their cups with dough.

Step Two: After an extended time of play (my boys played for over an hour!), you can get to the fossil part. Roll out the dough to 1/2 inch thickness. Use a plastic cup (or something similar) to make a circle in the dough. Put a little flour on the play dinosaur (so it doesn't stick) and make an imprint in the dough.

Step Three: Place your dough imprints on a cookie sheet and back at 200 degrees for about 2 hours. You'll know they're done, because the dough will look dry and cooked all the way through. 

Step Four: Once the dinosaurs are fully cooked and hardened, you can paint the fossils, match the dinosaurs to their correct fossil, use them in a sensory bin, or solely play with them. We decided to paint ours.

Enjoy!