How to make frozen dinosaur eggs to thrill your kids: step by step with video
Nestling in a bed of leaves, these frozen eggs will melt to reveal the dino figures inside. Wow! Here's how to make them (it's surprisingly simple)...
Discovering a nest of frozen dinosaur eggs is a brilliant surprise for children to stumble upon.
Mum Sarah Massey made the most amazing frozen-dinosaur-egg nest for her kids, 4-year-old Joshua and 3-year-old Jasmine – and she's shared how to do it with us.
It was such a joy to see my kids' wee faces when they found them. My son is dinosaur-mad!
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Here's how to make frozen dinosaur eggs
You can follow our video guide (above) or our super-simple written instructions below:
What you'll need:
- Balloons
- Toy dinosaurs
- Leaves and branches
- Eggshells (optional)
Here's what to do:
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- Open the neck of each balloon and push in the toy dinosaurs
- Fill the balloons to about 1/3 full with water and tie the ends
- Put the balloons into the freezer overnight
- In the morning, make a nest in your garden using leaves, branches and egg shells (to look like hatched eggs)
- Take your balloons out of the freezer, snip off the knots and then peel off each balloon. The frozen water now looks like an egg containing a little dinosaur
- Place the eggs on the nest for your children to discover when they go outside
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The next fun bit comes with the 'hatching' (aka melting) of the eggs to to reveal the dinosaurs inside.
If the weather's not supplying enough of those hot, sunny, ice-melting rays, your kids can squirt warm water from a bottle or meat baster to slowly melt away the frozen water.
Do remember that just-out-of-the-freezer frozen water is not for touching or handling: skin can 'burn' from prolonged contact with ice.
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- Sarah Massey originally posted this idea on the fabulous Family Lockdown Tips & Ideas Facebook group before sharing it with us. You can order a new e-book, £1.99, of the group's best ideas, edited by the group's creator Claire Balkind with all profits going to Barnardo’s charity.
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