Dinosaur Birthday Party

Found lots of ideas online and things to buy for Ruben's dinosaur 5th birthday!

Made two chocolate cakes - one was 9x13" and the other was 9x9".

Used the rest of the batter to make 8 cupcakes.

Put the cakes in the fridge to make them easier to cut and handle. 

Cut the 9x9 in half and layered it on one end of the 9x13.

Used frosting between layers (1 can of white).

Used 1 can of chocolate frosting to frost over the entire cake lightly.

Purchased 2 squeeze things of frosting - blue and green.

The plastic palm trees are from Amazon.

Bought a bag of 72 or so dinosaurs, maybe Oriental Trading.

Found the chocolate rocks at Snoqualmie Falls gift shop, but they are also on Amazon.

Crushed Oreos and sprinkled around as dirt.

Used some dinosaur toys we already had as decorations.

Spread dinosaur confetti and jokes around the tables.

Borrowed this T-Rex costume from my cousin - they can be purchased on Amazon.

Got a dinosaur floor puzzle from a local toy store.

Pinata is from Party @ Display and Costume.

Used a local craft store's die cuts to make the match boxes and dinosaurs.

Put a piece of wax paper inside with three dinosaur gummies (Harbo, Amazon.com).

Bought dinosaur fabric at JoAnn and made reusable snack/sandwich pouches using my serger.

These are the party bags.

Basically, I cut two strips of fabric 7x15". I used dinosaur and green.

Sew wrong sides together (right sides out) - serge one short end.

Then iron the bags - fold in half, matching up short ends.

Then fold bag one short end about 1.5" (see photo below).

Serge around the square now. To use, stuff full of prizes and fold over flap like those sandwich bags.

Inside the party bags are dinosaurs, stickers, tattoos, balloons, puzzles, and others had dino pencils, dino crayons, rubber bracelets, etc.

Bought these foam visors for $1 each at Michaels.

Kids decorated them with foam dinosaur stickers, also from Michaels.

Melted old crayons at 200F for 20 minutes into a dinosaur silicon mold for chocolates.

Used the extra paper from cut from the die cuts at Ben Franklin craft store as stencils.

Found dinosaur jokes online - wrote them on these paper cut outs I did at Ben Franklin with die cuts.

Again, die cuts.

Melissa and Doug dinosaur set of stamps.

Used a big roll of paper from Ikea to cover the tables.

Found these stickers that make dinosaur scenes at a local toy store.

Dinosaur balloon - Amazon.com

After purchasing a bed at Ikea, we decided to cut the box in half and make it a bean bag toss game.

My son drew the dinosaurs and I cut out the holes. Then we painted the dinosaurs.

We used the extra dinosaur and green fabric from JoAnn that had made our gift bags, as the bean bags.

Filled them with rice.

Found these palm leaves in the teacher classroom decoration aisle at JoAnn.

All in all a great success!