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Where
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Type of Activity
Making
Type of Session
Resources

You can use any fossil or dinosaur toys, just make sure they are clean. Use your own favourite biscuit recipe, or try this one.

You will need

  • 115g butter
  • 55g caster sugar
  • few drops of vanilla extract
  • 150g plain flour
  • 25g cornflour

Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract until just evenly mixed. Stir in the flour and cornflour. Roll into a log, wrap in cling film and chill for 30 mins.

Cut slices off of the log and roll out to the thickness of £1 coin. Then press your fossil toy in to the dough. Pop them on a baking tray and ask and adult to bake them at 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4 for 10 mins.

Leave to cool on a wire rack and keep out of the reach of hungry dinosaurs!

Five plastic dinosaurs with a marble rolling pin. Two on the left are holding a black plastic ammonite fossil that they have just pressed into a piece of cookie dough

Five plastic dinosaurs around a pile of baked cookies with indented ammonite shapes baked into them. Two dinosaurs at the back are holding a piece of cookie, one has a piece in her mouth.