Dino Dig Birthday party

Here are the details of the dino party!  Another fun one to plan, especially when you have a paleontologist who's super into it!

I found these cards online they had lots of facts about each dino.  I just cut them out and strung them on some twine.  I made the letters in Word and cut them out to string up as well.

This was my leaf and balloon garden.  The leaves were made of tissue paper.  I wish my balloons were lime rather than John Deer Green but it served the purpose.  Just cut the leaves out fold them over to glue onto twine and then tie on some balloons.

Watch out!  Baby T-rexes expected!  I made the dino eggs from paper lantern easter eggs that I found on amazon, just spray painted them white.  We built our nest with things from the yard.  I made my sign (and all sings in Word with pictures I find online or clip art)

My first birthday mantle (we didn't have a fireplace in our old house). The banner is from Etsy on its 2nd use.  Brennan painted the letter/number and I added some dinos on rocks that we brought home from the beach.  The pictures that Becky took were perfect with our theme.   B's T-rex shiert is from Kohls

Brennan insisted on Dinos with party hats so I put these guys in there to keep them safe and add some interest to our side doorway.

These were on the tables.  Dinos (that we had as toys), rocks from the beach, fern from the yard, and the only thing that was purchased here is the jar from Michaels.  I already had the tablecloth as well...not sure where it was from.

Another table

Kids table

The cake table.  Cake by Keri Starzman, she's amazing!  Dino dig cups (dirt cake) by my Mom.  Dino napkins from amazon.

I always try to display pics from the past year, this year I put them on one of my painted windows.

Party favors...the boys decorated the hats with dino stickers before they started their paleontologist activities.  Inside the bucket were shovels, a magnifying glass, a burplap bag and small container for holding their treasures.  The boys found geodes, dino skeletons and jewels while digging.  They also found dino eggs on a dino egg hunt that hatched dinos in water. The previous post has pictures of their fun doing so! 

Digging area

All about Brennan at 5...I started asking him these questions at 3 and I plan to keep doing it to see how he changes.  The dino with the hat is serving prehistoric rock candy, found on Amazon.

Yuck dino toenails!  Also herbivore munchies:)

Dino watermelon...not too hard to make!  I forgot to take a picture of all the food but we had lots of other goods for our paleontologists.