The Good Dinosaur!
Imagine living
in a world with dinosaurs?!
I saw that a few months ago.
Pretty good movie!
What's your favorite Pixar movie?
Hey guys!1 Ray Pajar
from Get Crafty Crafty
and today we're going to be getting
a little messy!
Using a few household ingredients
we're going to be combining
a bunch of things together
to create the really cool
crack open fossils!!
Let go ahead and get started with todays project!
The items that you'll need
for todays project include:
a large mixing bowl,
one cup of salt,
one cup of coffee grounds,
one cup of flour,
one cup of play sand or regular sand,
half a cup to one cup of water
some dinosaur or some fossil toys.
I was looking originally for dinosaur toys
but I found these guys at a craft store,
I'll have link to these in the description below.
In your large mixing bowl
you're going to combine your coffee grounds
your salt,
your sand,
and your flour.
Using your hands
you're going to mix everything together
until all the clumps
have been broken down.
Once everything has been mixed together
you're going to carefully take your water
and you're going to pour it in slowly
and mix it into
your sand and
coffee, salt mixture!
You want to make sure
that everything is mixed in
and depending on how wet
your sand and coffee grounds are
you're going to use either
half of your water or all of your water.
You want to add enough water
to your mixture
so that al the dry ingredients can be soaked.
Remember the more water that you add to this mixture
the longer it's going to take
to actually dry!
To create your fossil
you're going to take enough of your mixture
so that you could completely cover
your dinosaur fossil or
your dinosaur toy.
Or you could have
a little bit of it exposed
so that you could actually see
what on the inside
of your fossil.
I kinda like the
completely covered part
with just a little bit open
so that when you crack it,
you could actually see
whats on the inside of your fossil.
As an alternative
to using plastic dinosaur toys,
you could use
either some plastic gems
or in this case some sea glass
to create a really cool
geode like fossil.
Same kind of concept.
All you have to do
is cover up your
sea glass or your gems
or have them stick out a little bit
so that you could actually crack them open
to see what's on the inside of your fossil.
To ensure that your fossil
has hardened properly,
you want to make sure
that everything has been completely
pushed in
and there are no cracks on your fossil.
If you wait too long
to actually do this
it's going to dry up.
All you have to do
is take some water
and then just compact
your fossil,
so that it's smoothened out
and that none of the parts
on the outside
will fall apart when it's drying.
Once you've put your fossils together
and everything has been pushed in
you want to let these sit
under the sun or
by a windowsill
for about two to three days.
Once everything has been dried
You'll actually be able to
crack open your fossils.
After your fossils have completely dried
A cool way to actually display them
before you crack them
is you could either
put them into a sand box
or into some coffee grounds
to make it look like
that they're actually
just sitting in the ground
waiting to be found
and opened.
To break open your fossils,
you can use a small hammer
to actually crack them open.
For this part of the project
you want to make sure,
you have the eye care.
So that nothing gets into your eye
then you crack open your fossils,
and if you need the help or supervision
from an adult,
make sure you ask for it.
Using your hammer
you want to carefully
crack it open,
to carefully reveal,
whats inside
of your fossil.
The more that you wait
for your fossil to actually dry
the harder it's going to be
to actually open it up!
Depending on where you live
this project can take two to three days
or even more to completely dry.
I live in LA
and it was about 80 degrees this week
and as you guys can see
when I tried to crack open the fossils
the inside was still a little bit wet
and it actually made it a little easier
to crack them open.
If you want a harder fossil
to actually crack open
you probably want to wait
a few extra days
before you try to open up your fossil.
These were a really fun project to make
and even though
you could make them as a
little fossil to crack open
I actually prefer
the ones that are a little exposed
just so that you could actually just
have them laying around as a
cool little table piece.
If you guys are interested in
making more cool
"geode-ie" rock projects
you guys could check out my
egg shell geode project
or if you're really interested in
checkout an
OG Get Crafty Crafty video
checkout my
DIY Plaster Dragon Egg video!!
If you guys make this project
Make sure you share it with me wither on my
Facebook, Instagram or Twitter
using the #GetCraftyCrafty hashtag
Other than that, I'll see you guys next time!!
Take care and stay crafty!!