A storm has washed a big speckled egg out of Dig Pit 1, and it goes tap, tap, CRACK. The baby dinosaur must hatch in its own nest, next to its mother, in Fern Valley. The only way in is the Bone Gate. Fossil Camp: The Cracking Dino Egg is a printable dinosaur escape room party game for ages 6 to 9.
How it plays
- Players make three teams. Each team solves three puzzles at three sites, side by side.
- The team finds its code on the Camp Board. Same little picture as on the puzzle page? The code is right and the next envelope can be opened.
- Inside waits a bone card. With all nine, the teams lay them in a row, skull to tail tip, to build one long skeleton.
- The big numbers on the cards go into the Bone Gate, a pyramid made of pyramids. Its top brick opens the last envelope: the nest.
Made for younger players
The maths is counting, adding and taking away within 20 at the first sites and within 50 at the last, plus odd and even numbers and measuring with a paper ruler. There is no multiplying, and many clues are in the pictures. A grown-up reads the story aloud, and six-year-olds will want a reader on their team. Nobody can lose: if the Egg Timer runs out, everybody walks like a baby dinosaur until the gate is open.
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Fossil Camp: The Cracking Dino Egg
A printable dinosaur escape room party game for ages 6 to 9: nine sites, nine bone cards and a Bone Gate finale.
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