Diggin' more Dinosaurs!

Although we've moved past rereading Dinosaurs at Dawn for the 300th time, Babycake is still interested in anything dinosaur related she might come across. As I mentioned in my original post on dinosaurs, our children's museum has an AMAZING dinosaur exhibit. We recently went to the museum with the whole family and made sure to attend two events focused on dinosaurs. The first was "Dinosaurs Upclose." Here kids got to touch fossil casts of a Duckbill Dinosaur and learn about one of the Duckbill Dinos on exhibit. When it the Duckbill Dinosaur session was over Babycake enjoyed the dino dig site. A little later we went to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Talk. Again there was a speaker on the T-Rex and more fossils to touch while learning about the dinosaur and pretending to be a T-Rex.

 The next day we had our own dig for dinosaurs. Earlier in the week I'd found a great little excavation kit in the Target $1 section. Inside the clay dino skull was a dinosaur Babycake would get to dig out.

Babycake had a great time with this. We first started out simply using the little tools provided, but we quickly discovered we were getting no where, so we broke out the hammer. This was exciting (and terrifying).


We repeatedly discussed how we were explorers looking for a fossil. To find this treasure we needed to excavate. To excavate our fossil we needed to chip, scrape, and brush away the clay.

After chipping away at the clay Babycake exclaimed with so much excitement that she saw something. We paused from picking at the clay to brush off the exposed part of our little discovery.

We continued to chip away and soon a little green dinosaur fell out. Babycake was so excited and loved brushing off the dinosaur. Although she had a great time excavating her dinosaur I'm not sure if she will remember the terms we used. Oh well. It was fun.