To make this easy dinosaur birthday cake, you can use your favorite chocolate cake mix or chocolate cake recipe. Making the cake in a glass pan makes it easier to decorate if you’re unsure of your frosting skills. Alternatively, you could make this into a dinosaur sheet cake by baking chocolate cake sheets and layering them. At the party we had a competition. We split into two teams and each person took their turn throwing the 5 steaks. We added up how many steaks each person on the team fed the t-rex to see what team won. For the top of the cake we designed and made our own three rex cake topper out of wood and made a few laser cut wood leaves. The imaginative play idea behind this party is that we are explorers who set up camp at the unknown dinosaur island. Our adventure is to find and party with the dinosaurs! Dinosaur Party Costume

After they figured out the name of their pet dinosaur, they had to look through the boxes on the table to find the name tag with their pet dinosaur’s name and then they could take that one with them. Dinosaur Party Shirts He really got into character this year and we played pretend that we were explorers hunting for dinosaurs in the jungle (the flowerbed behind my parent’s pool) while I took photos of our adventure with our Canon EOS REBEL. Three-Rex Birthday Party Invitations I covered a table with the same green fabric as the photo booth and this is where I set items for the guests to take including the safari hats and the “pet dinosaur” boxes. Mousse cups - These nutella mousse cupsare also great to include in the dessert table. Serve them in mini cups. This leaves covered 3 was another one of my DIY projects that I made using plants off of an old faux plant from my mom’s house.

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Plush dinos - we also displayed a few plush dinosaurs around the house. They are the perfect touch to bring the whole look together. We went with medium-sized ones from Ikea. Paint - We opted out of a paint set up to make clean up easier. If you want to include paint, be sure to include paint brushes and small paint palettes. Dinosaur balloons - I placed 4d foil balloons around the dessert table including a stegosaurus balloon, triceratops balloon, and t-rex balloon. Everything was planned & styled by mommy aka Phases of Love! I always love using my son’s toys to help me with their birthday decor. We had so much fun diggin’ around their playroom looking for dinosaurs! It really was a DINOmite party!” We have a large framed chalkboard over our coffee bar that we made so it only seems fitting to me I create a new chalkboard design for the theme of the party.

I used wax paper and a permanent pen to draw my outline, cut it out with scissors and then placed it on my cake to cut around. This will give you a nice shape to trace so there is no guess-work in how it will look. I designed the treasure hunt map and then printed it on a piece of paper that was dyed with tea like we did with the invitations.

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If you have planned a themed party for your child, you know that it takes countless hours of research and planning to put it all together. So, I am here to help save you time if you are thinking of throwing the perfect dino themed party for your little boy or girl with every last detail so that you don't have to spend too much time planning. Dinosaur Birthday Party Dessert Table with Decor Three Rex Dinosaur Party Decor A chocolate dinosaur birthday cake looks like earth or mud under the dinosaur’s feet when you cut into the cake and decorate it. Decide if you’re baking from scratch and follow the recipe or use a box of chocolate cake mix.If you’re baking from scratch, you might want to try this recipe for Chocolate Fudge Cake. Our jungle photo booth included a bench for guests to sit. I needed to cover up the bench so I created a foreground for the photo booth. Cupcakes - We served vanilla cupcakes topped with buttercream icing and fondant eggs. You could also top them with dinosaur cupcake toppers. I placed the cupcakes on a wooden 2-tier cupcake stand. It was kind of a party fail because nobody could break it except Brent and even then it took him several times before he ended up hitting the head off it in a somewhat disturbing manner. Ha.

We wanted to tie the cake to the invitation design so we designed the cake topper to be a speech bubble and then transformed a plastic dinosaur to look more like the playful t-rex on the envelopes. Three Rex balloon - I also added this gold foil cursive three rex balloon on the wall behind the dessert table.

After the paper dried, he ripped it into 8 ½ by 11 sized paper and we ran it through our printer and printed two invitations per piece. Then, he used a special technique to rip the paper down to the individual 5″x7″ sized invitations. This gave the invitations the rough edges. Connor used our INSTAX camera that we already had and a magnifying glass as props. We used these props in our photo booth at the party as well.

I found this cool treasure box and it was cute to watch how excited Connor was to dig it up a real treasure chest and open it with the key. I used a star tip with my piping bag, but you can use a grass-tip. You can also use a rubber cake spatula to spread your icing carefully around your three-rex cake. Take extra care around the edges of your number so they don’t tear. Toy dinosaur sheet cake decorations In line with the dinosaur theme party, label little tent cards with creative phrases to describe the food such as: I always really like tall candles and found these cool green marbled candles that we put on the side of the cake.

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When my family does parties we show up dressed for parties. Ha. We always wear shirts or outfits to go with the theme. I chose to make the envelope liner out of scrapbook paper with tropical leaves because I wanted it to have more of a vintage island feel rather than slap you in the face dinosaur theme. I recycled jars I already had to hold chocolate candies and each guest was given a treat box to fill up with desserts before they left. Dinosaur Birthday Party Food