Can we talk about dinosaurs

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Hello

I'm desperate for some MN help and ideas for DD who will be 7 in December. All she wants is dinosaurs or fossils.

She has a metal detector, used daily.
She has, in my view, all the toy dinosaurs one would ever need.
Her clothes are all dinosaurs.
We have done many of the days out.

I'm stuck.

She seems to be talking about a real dinosaur, a robot one? I can find nothing of her age that would fit this. All more remote control younger.

Is this the year we go for tech and she can build a Dino world or something? Does such a game exist.

I'm reluctant to give animals as a gift. We do have Rex the lizard and diplo the gecko. So that is sufficient.

She breeds butterflies. Collects rocks. Loves crafting. Marble runs.

I am completely out of ideas. Has anyone any genius ideas for main birthday, Christmas gift.

She's a good kid who doesn't really fit in and I would like to get her something that suits her interests

Dino jewellery

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dinosaur-necklace/s?k=dinosaur+necklace

Or fossil

https://www.jurassicjewellery.co.uk/contents/en-us/d75.html

For a stocking filler what about a sandwich cutter?

https://hippoblue.uk/products/dinosaurs-sandwich-cutter

Does she have school dinners? If not then a dino lunch box

https://www.suck.uk.com/products/dinosaur-lunch-box/

Actually anything from this place

www.jurassicgifts.co.uk/group/Dinosaur-Games

Lego dinosaur set sounds about right! If she likes posters, you can make one for her (here is a guide for making a poster from a photo), or you can use a calendar maker and design a calendar for the next year with various dinosaurs, maybe even add some facts about them, etc. Also look into glowing stickers, I'm sure there are sets with dinosaurs, too, and these are AMAZING! They absorb light during the day/when the lights are on and they'll glow in the dark for several hours once you turn the lights off.

I was the same! Loved Dinosaurs still find them fascinating.Lyme Regis has a lovely museum there, and the whole town has a wonderful feel to it.

Does your daughter know why the tail of a stegosaur is known as a thagomizer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson coined the term as a joke, palaentologists ran with it :)

I remember bringing my dinosaur models into school and displaying them at the back of the classroom but the other girls put them into compromising positions (ridiculous really as we were only 9/10!).

This thread is fantastic! Love the dino sandwich cutter - genius.

Jo