Craft: Coffee Ground "Fossils"

Create your own fossils to display. These would work as visual aids for Science Projects.

What you'll need:

1 cup of used coffee grounds
1/2 cup of cold coffee
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
Wax paper
Mixing bowl
Some small objects to make impressions in the dough
Empty can or a butter knife
Toothpicks, optional
String to hang your fossil, optional

How to make it:

Stir the together the coffee grounds, cold coffee, flour, and salt until well mixed.

Knead the dough together and then flatten it out onto the waxed paper.

Use the can to cut out circles of the dough or use the dull knife to cut slabs large enough to fit your "fossil" objects.

Press your objects firmly into the dough. When you take the object out, you have your "fossil". If you want to hang the fossil, poke holes into the edge to hold the string.

Let the fossil dry overnight and then hang it if you wish.

Tips:

Annmarie Shafer wrote: We made these with my preschool class and had to bake them for a short period to get the "dough" to harden , but we loved the resulting "Rocks" which really resembled fossils (we pressed a shell into the dough). The kids (ages 5-6) LOVED THEM!!!

Note from the Craft Exchange Editor: We were never able to get these fossils to turn "rock hard". They are fun to make and the children enjoy them.

This craft was originally found at http://crafts.kaboose.com