We had just moved to a new neighborhood, when my daughter turned 5. The guest list included boys and girls, aged 2 1/2 to 8. We decided a Dinosaur Party would be fun for everyone. The invitations were cut from construction paper. A baby T-Rex hatching out of an egg. Two halves of an egg were hinged together with a clasp, so they  could be opened to reveal the dino inside. We asked all our guests to come dressed as cavemen and women. (That was the most fun, seeing all the costumes. We made sure to take Polaroid pictures of everyone to include in the Thank You notes.) As the guests arrived, we had a large cardboard mural set up in the garage with paints and brushes. I drew a dinosaur vista with a volcano and plants in thick black marker. The idea was for them to fill in, like a coloring book. But we all know it's not that important to stay inside the lines. Next we had a dinosaur egg hunt (I used Easter eggs filled with dino fruit snacks and plastic figures.) Next we played "Extinct"-musical chairs with the names of dinosaurs on the back of each chair. We made fossils, using the Rose Art dough (Crayola makes it too) that hardens in a day. Each child got a small portion and an plastic circle top from a yogurt container. Using the same dinosaur figures that were in the egg hunt, each child flattened out the dough and pressed the figure into the dough, creating the fossil. They were put up to dry and were placed in their gift bags to go home. The food-I purchased a bone cookie cutter and made PB&J bone sandwiches and bone sugar cookies. I cut a pineapple in the shape of a dino's body (complete with kiwi and raisin head) and put triangles of cheese across the back. The movie Dinosaur had just come out, so I was able to find green dinosaur pudding. I was lucky to also find Dinosaur chicken tenders in the freezer section of my grocery store. We played a CD of kids singing dinosaur songs I found at Amazon.com. The gift bags were canvas from a craft store on which I wrote each child's name with fabric paint. Using inexpensive stamps, I decorated each with themed stamps. Inside the bags were dino Band-Aids, dino fruit snacks, dino erasers and pencils, chocolates I made with dino molds from the craft store, etc. We had dino tracks in chalk up the driveway, as well as poster board tracks going up the wall of the party room. Green table clothes, and green balloons throughout the room. The most fun was the volcano cake. I cooked two bundt cakes and froze them, before I carved them into the shape of a volcano. Frosted with chocolate, with red, orange and yellow "lava" frosting coming down the sides, a few plastic dinosaurs and palm trees along the bottom and sparkler candles set in the top. To wind everyone down, we finished with the video "The Land Before Time". It was a blast!