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    • Chomping Mechanical Dinosaur Costume

    1. Grades 3-5
    2. Grades 6-8

    $29.954.5

    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

    Reviews

    4.5

    32 reviews

    Customer images

      Tal

      09/13/2023

      Got it for my 3 year old son he loved to build it and play. I would say I had to use fabric glue for the teeth. But we made a great coustum

      Amy

      03/20/2023

      This one was AMAZING!! So much fun to build and play with!

      Anne

      02/28/2023

      My 4-year-old grandson loved it! He immediately started to make it, with the help of his Dad. They love to do that. They made it in time for him to wear at his birthday party! He's very good at putting things together.

      Daigle

      10/25/2022

      It is an adorable mask. The chomping mouth was a little difficult to work. It was hard to adjust the screws to get it to chomp like in the video. In the end, it was OK because he just left it open.

      Courtney

      10/19/2022

      It was a fun project and looks cool! The mouth doesn’t drop open easily tho so can’t really chomp as easily as you’d like.

      Cynthia K

      10/03/2022

      The chomping jaw is very fun, & my grandson LOVED the process of making it & is excited about the finished product!

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