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Instructions
Lay 2-foot wide rolls of indoor outdoor carpet on the back lawn. You're going to create several paths that the kids can crawl down. Mark across the path every 2 to 3 feet with waterproof colored tape or paint.
Leave a space where the branches of the path twist and turn. You fill these spaces later with a footprint. When you create a dinosaur track, the dinosaur footprints send the children back to the start.
Find large plastic dice or even get a pair of the big fuzzy ones that hang in the windshield. The best is to go with the easy cleaner upper, but fuzzy dice will do in a pinch. When you create a Jurassic Park Dinosaur Track, you want everything big.
Collect 2-foot wide containers. If you can find a good semicircle plastic mold to put down between the carpet runs, that's great. Otherwise use a large cookie sheet or other accommodating pan.
Lightly grease the edges of the mold. Mix concrete to the consistency of thick mashed potatoes and spoon about 1 inch in the pan. Tamp it down and put another inch on top. Allow this to sit until you can make a print on it that doesn't disappear. Don't let it sit so long that the print can't be done.
Design several different dinosaur tracks on the molds of almost hardened concrete. Visit the website Enchanted Learning or check out children's coloring books for track designs. For a really neat game, have a variety of tracks. When you remove the dinosaur stepping stone from the mold, label the type of track.
Insert the track stepping stone into the carpet path and let the games begin. Each child rolls the dice and crawls that number of spaces. If they land on the dinosaur footprint they are squashed by the dinosaur and have to go back to Start. Place a prize or stuffed dinosaur that the winner gets to carry around.