Dinosaur Eggs

Instructions:

1. Get your materials ready:

   1. From box: 1 cup baking soda, 2 small dinosaurs, syringe

   2. ¼ cup dirt

   3. Mixing bowl, measuring cup

   4. A little bit of water

   5. Pan to let eggs dry on

   6. Vinegar (for once the eggs are dry)

2. Mix together 1 cup baking soda and ¼ cup dirt.

3. Add a little bit of water (a spoonful at a time), until it makes a thick, sticky, moldable dough.

4. Grab half of the dough and put a dinosaur in the middle. Make an egg shape around the dinosaur.

5. Repeat for the other half of the dough

6. Let the eggs dry in the sun

7. When they are dry get your syringe and vinegar!

8. Put the vinegar in the syringe, squirt on the egg and watch what happens!

InterACTions:

• What do you think about the fact that all dinosaurs hatched from eggs?

• Do you want to learn about that?

• Do you know other animals that hatch from eggs?

• What does the baking soda and dirt feel like?

• How can we cover the dinosaur with the dough?

• Wow...what happens when you squirt the baking soda on the egg?