What gift do you buy a child who loves dinosaurs? Well, there’s plenty of wonderful, albeit expensive, dinosaur gift ideas out there but it’s pretty easy to make your own dinosaur gift box and it will cost a fraction of the price!
What’s to love about this dinosaur gift box?
It encourages a lot of dinosaur play!
- Make dinosaur footprints
- Make dinosaur fossils
- Dig up your fossils
- Paint your fossils
- Pretend to be a dinosaur
What to put in the dinosaur gift box?
- Your choice plastic dinosaur toy
- Different sized paintbrushes (to use as paint excavation tools and paint brushes)
- Plaster
- Paints
- You can also add some free to download dinosaur masks too!
Free Dinosaur Box PrintablesÂ
I’ve made some printables to go with the gift box. You’re welcome:
Download the Dinosaur Gift Box Printable
Dinosaur Activity Card
Plaster instruction card
Dinosaur Gift Tag
How to decorate the dinosaur gift box
Decorating the box as a dinosaur makes a lovely addition to the gift.
- Glue some green tissue paper all over the box. I found a glue stick made this process less messy.
- Then, using a black permanent marker draw that dinosaur onto the green tissue paper covered box. I’ve added images of each side so that you can copy what I’ve drawn. Making scales is pretty easy, you just draw circles of many shapes and sizes close together.
With a few materials, you can easily make your own dinosaur box for that special dino mad child’s special day.
This is such an awesome idea!!!!
Thanks Kate 🙂
What a fabulous idea, Penny! Pinned 🙂
Love this idea, Penny. I’m working on a post right now on dinosaur books for kids, so will add the link to WF4K!
Thanks Susan, that would be lovely. I’ll try to remember to add your link into my Dino activity post too!
This is awesome Penny! I love it! 🙂 Pinning and can’t wait to think of a dinosaur lover to give this to!
What a genius idea! Thank you for the printables!!
This is all kinds of awesome, our youngest is having a Dinosaur party next year, these will be perfect for activities or take home gifts! Love what you did with the gift box.
Naw, thanks Caz. Let me know if you need any colour changes or a bunch of tags on one page. I’m happy to change them for you 🙂
It is really wonderful. I would love to surprise my kiddo with such a gift box. He loves dinosaurs and will be realy thrilled. Thanks for sharing this great idea!
Naw, thanks Rebecca, that’s lovely for you to say. 🙂
Love it, will be making one this afternoon for a little dino boy I work with
I ADORE THIS IDEA! So clever and all kinds of wonderful.
pinned too
Kids just love dinosaurs! My little girl just got one for her birthday and is starting to show signs of great interest. YAY. I’ll keep this in mind. Love it.
Yay! I love when they develop interest in dinosaurs. It’s a hard concept for them to understand that they once were alive but aren’t now. They are always so interested in them.