I threw this together pretty quick–I like that it combines both themes like the puppets. Sign 11: CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a proper lady or gentleman AND a wonderful dinosaur! Sign 10: Practice your dinosaur roar to show…you’re a dinosaur. Sign 9: Practice your bow or curtsy to show respect. Sign 8: Crawl around like a dinosaur for 15 seconds. Sign 7: Balance a book on your head for 10 seconds. Sign 5: Twirl around gracefully like a proper lady or gentleman. Sign 4: Practice sipping tea like a dinosaur. Sign 3: Practice sipping tea like a lady or gentleman. Sign 2: Stomp like a dinosaur to the next sign. Sign 1: Walk like a lady or gentleman to the next sign. I’m not going to post all my signs here, but I will post what each sign said so you can recreate them easy enough: I’m thinking my kiddos will try to throw paper airplanes into it’s mouth. I scored it every 2 inches or so, so that the cardboard would lay flat on the top of the head and was able to bend with all the curves, especially on the dinosaur’s snout. Using that measurement, I made one really long trapezoid out of cardboard to lay on top. Then I used a flexible measuring tape to measure how much cardboard I would need for the top. I then clipped them to a heavy duty iPad stand, so that it could hold all the weight. The sides are just two large pear shapes about 2.5 feet long that are made out of cardboard. I first found someone that did something similar here, and then just made my own template. I had some extra time so I thought it would be even better to make the mouth 3D!! It was surprisingly simple to make. I thought it would be fun to do some sort of ball toss into a dinosaur’s mouth. You can download a copy of the Red Ted Art tea cup template here, you just need to give them your email and they’ll give it to you for free! For that I used some edging or pattern scissors. This one I got directly from a great website called Red Ted Art–all I did was add the big dinosaur bite out of the cup. You can pick up a copy of the instructions and coloring sheet here.

Tea Rex by Molly Idle