To go along with our Dinosaur Sensory Tote and other dinosaur activities that we are working on, we made some dinosaur fossils. These were simple to make and the kids really enjoyed making them. My kids have big smiles on their faces and my house smells like a coffee shop!
To make your own, all you need is:
1 cup used coffee grounds
1/2 cup cold coffee
1/2 cup salt
1 cup flour
Mix the coffee grounds, coffee, salt, and flour together in a mixing bowl.
Mix until ingredients are combined and a dough is formed.
Form small balls of dough in your hands and flatten them out into circles that are about 1/2 inch thick on a cookie sheet.
Lay small dinosaurs on their side to make dinosaur imprints and you can use larger dinosaur dinosaurs to make footprints.
When your baking sheet is full or you are out of dough....
Bake them in the oven at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
Take the fossils out of the oven and carefully remove them from the cookie sheet with a spatula. Once they are cooled, turn them over and let the bottoms dry out overnight. Ours were still a bit soft after a few days, so I decided to put them back in the oven for 30 minutes at 350 degrees and they are nice and hard now.
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