Dinosaur Week

This is another week that just flopped.  I tried to hint to my friend with the membership that we should go to the Science Museum but it didn't work and I just couldn't bring myself to pay full price.  I considered just getting my own membership since it is the equivalent to going twice but then I thought of all my friends who have memberships who said they would take me and so I opted out.  I should have just done it.  Oh, well.

We did make these cute paper plate dinos.  I did freeze a bunch of plastic dinos in a huge ice cube that the girls had to squirt with water guns and spoons to rescue (thank you Pinterest) but Mark was in charge and of course, didn't take a picture.  The girls really had fun though.  We watched a couple Reading Rainbows about dinosaurs and the Disney version "Dinosaurs" (totally not worth it).

We did make Dinosaur Food
2 cups crushed bones (sugar)
1 stick fat (margarine)
1/2 c. swamp water (milk)
3 c. dried weeds (quick cook oats)
1/2 c. dirt (cocoa)
1/2 c. squashed bugs (peanut butter)

Combine crushed bones, fat, and swamp water in a saucepan.  Bring to a rolling boil and boil for one minute.  Remove from heat.  Add dirt, squashed bugs, and dried weeds. Mix well.  Drop dinosaur food by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper.  Allow to cool.

Books we read:
Cam Jansen and the mystery of the dinosaur bones
Detective Dinosaur : lost and found 
Dinorella : a prehistoric fairy tale 
Too many dinosaurs 
Dinosaurs eye to eye : zoom in on the world's most incredible dinosaurs 
I'm sure I saw a dinosaur 
Dinosaur 
Harry and the dinosaurs at the museum 
Going Hollywood : a dinosaur's dream 
Saturday night at the dinosaur stomp 
How do dinosaurs go to school?
How to raise a dinosaur