4 year old birthday?

I need some good ideas, well she is a girl and she loves dinasours so I thought about that theme but not comitted to it. She is very girly despite might what you might think about the dinasaours any games or decorations/favor ideas would be great.

Answers:
why not do a "land before time" theme? it has dinosaurs in it but is girly at the same time (my 3 girls have 2 of the movies and they love it-especially the dinosaur named sara!!)

check with partyexpress.com for the supplies or your local party store should have them too. i get all of my girls' party stuff there.

here are some more fun ideas ( i'm good at planning parties)

Decorations:
Paint two large empty refrigerator boxes to look like a cave. Inside, glue on pictures of dinosaurs. Add sound effects by taping them from the movie Jurassic Park. Let the kids crawl through the Dinosaur cave to get to the party.
Cut out dinosaur footprints from brown paper. Place all over house or yard. Have them lead up to your entry way. Decorate table with large rocks, green plants and plastic or paper dinosaurs

Volcano cake:

8" round cakes stacked to form a volcano shape that actually erupts delicious red foam "lava" and huge clouds of mysterious, safe, odor-free, disappearing "smoke"!

For this special effect you will need;

Six 8" baked round cakes (your favorite)
Brown and green frosting
One fresh egg with shell scrubbed clean
One small juice glass or 1 1/2" cookie cutter
2-3 drops red food coloring
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 pound dry ice
Aluminum foil
1-2 ounces hot tap water

Make six 8" round cakes using your favorite mix or buy the cakes from a bakery.

Buy two or three dollars worth of dry ice from the grocery store the day you will need it. Keep the dry ice in the freezer. Be sure to handle the dry ice with gloves or tongs just to be safe.Now use your juice glass or cookie cutter and cut out a hole in the center of the top two layers of cake. This hole will form a well in the center of the cake and hide the special effect.

Now construct the Volcano Cake, round pyramid style, on a cake platter or large dish. Trim each layer into successively smaller rounds and stack and frost them into a mountain shape using the last two layers with the holes as its top.

With a small peice of aluminum foil, line the well in the center of the volcano cake. Use the juice glass as a mold and form the foil around the glass.

Now frost the cake, smoothing out the small step-like ledges. Use chocolate frosting for the whole cake first. Then use green frosting as highlights around the mountain to resemble vegetation.

When you are ready to serve the cake, make the "lava". Separate the cleaned egg and discard the yolk. Put the egg white in a small mixing bowl with one and one half teaspoons sugar and two or three drops of red food coloring. Beat until the egg white starts to thicken. You don't want stiff peaks to form, just a thick, foamy texture.

Now place two or three small chunks of dry ice into the foil-lined well of the cake and pour in the red egg mixture. Nothing much will happen yet. Now fill your juice glass with hot tap water and take the Volcano cake and water to the table where your guests are. When you are ready to produce the special effect, simply pour one or two ounces of the hot water into the egg and dry ice mixture and your realistic Volcano cake will erupt large quantities of orange, foamy "lava" and white "smoke" for several minutes while you serve your delighted guests Pieces of genuine Erupting Volcano Cake! ( i made this for my nephew one year-he loved it!!)

Games and Activities

Fossil Dig:
Need dog bone treats. Bury these in a sand box or other designated area. Have the kids dig for dino bones.
OR use real bones. Save bones and boil them for 1/2 to 1 hour to get all the meat off. After boiling, bake them for another hour or so. Cool and spray with primer and white paint.

Dinosaur Hunt:
Draw a large dinosaur, cut into several pieces (like a puzzle). Hide these pieces around and let the kids find them. Have them restructure the dino

Hatch the Dino Egg:
Need balloons for each team, one per child. Mini dinosaur toys or stickers. Place one in each balloon before blowing up and tying off.
Play: Have each team line up. The first in line gets to hatch their "dino egg" by sitting on the balloon. They need to try to break the balloon before the next one in line gets a chance. When they break their "egg" they keep the prize. First team finished wins.

hope this helps!!

ya my little girl (4yrs)loves dinosaurs too and fairies
so we did pink and purple dinosaurs and fairy wings with princess crowns and she was in birthday heaven (we made a few brown and blue for her big brother and other boys there with crowns made for future kings )

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