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Chomping Mechanical Dinosaur Costume

  1. Grades Pre-K
  2. Grades K-2
  3. Grades 3-5

$29.95

Get your rawr on — with a big green mechanical dinosaur costume, you build yourself! This costume crate contains everything you need to craft a spiky T. rex head, engineer a fierce felt jaw that snaps shut with the pull of a string, then add a set of matching dino claws to complete the look. Finish off your dino discovery by learning about hinges, rotary motion, and fossil detective work. Ready to dig in?

Why it’s awesome

  1. Jaw-dropping science

    Build your own hinged dino jaw that snaps shut with rotary motion.

  2. Dino-mite design

    Stomp and roar your way through trick-or-treating and outdoor imaginative play.

What’s included?

  • felt head

  • felt nose

  • felt jaw

  • 4 felt teeth

  • 3 felt spikes

  • 2 felt eyebrows

  • 6 felt claws

  • 2 wiggle eyes

  • 35 brads

  • 2 bolts

  • 4 nuts

  • 2 cords

  • sticky felt

  • illustrated instruction booklet

Topics explored

  1. Hinges + motors

  2. Felt crafts

  3. Paleontology

Additional details

From the desk of the product designer:

Behind the design

“No dinosaur costume is complete without snapping jaws! Explore mechanics to bring this T. rex to life.”

- KiwiCo Product Designer

By the numbers

25

Number of brads used for the costume

3

Jaw pulley prototypes

Many!

Hours worn around the office

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