Craft a snack that kids will enjoy making and eating. Hard boiled eggs turned dinosaur eggs with a little food coloring and time. Check out this fun activity for kids, great for the dinosaur lover in all of us.

I came across this activity in an old craft book I found in our activities library at work.  The book was old and the pages were yellowed with age like it hadn’t been opened in years. I flipped to the dinosaur activities section and found this amazing edible activity!  I was skeptical that the eggs would turn out like those pictured in the book, but they turned out even better.  Hope you and your kids enjoy this activity as much as we did.

Supplies for the Eggs

• eggs
• water
• food coloring
• Pan
• Bowl

How to Make Dinosaur Eggs

Start by boiling water. Then add the eggs and boil for 8 minutes. Until you have a simple hard boiled egg. Then remove the eggs from the water and allow them to cool completely.

After the eggs have cooled, begin to crack the shell by tapping it on the counter, or edge of a bowl.  You want the shell to crack but not fall off.  The more small cracks you create the more “authentic” the dinosaur egg will look. If the cracks are to big the shell will fall off or the egg will not have the cracked appearance when done.

After the eggs are “cracked” add water to a bowl, add food coloring. (I added 7 drops to this bowl) Mix the coloring in and place the egg in the bowl.  Place the bowls in the refrigerator over night.

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In the morning, or the next day peel the eggs and enjoy eating a delicious dinosaur egg. Kids will love this edible craft they can enjoy as a snack!

If you kids like eggs you may also like “raw or boiled?”. This activity asks kids to use their investigative skills to determine is an egg is raw or boiled. You may also like “White & Brown Eggs; A Diversity Lesson”. In this activity kids examine eggs of different colors to determine if they are the same or different inside.