Hi there - I am planning a dinosaur themed party for my son's 4th birthday, does any one have ideas on dinosaur food that is dino-themed?

We had one of these last year. Instead of a cake, I used a popover pan to make chocolate "volcanoes". Baked them, inverted them and topped with streaky red and orange icing for lava.

We are having a T-Rex Princess party and I gave up on the food ideas other than the cake which will hopefully get out of my brain and onto the cake all in one piece. But we did papier mache large balloons which we stuffed with treats and painted to look like eggs which will sit in a bit nest of twigs. I did see lots of posts about herbivores vs carnivores but that has to be more interesting that just carrot sticks to make a deal of it. I do like the chicken/turkey leg ideas too...

Go to Pinterest and type in dinosaur birthday party. Lots of fun ideas!

Oh...don't forget the classis crushed oreos (dirt) with chocolate pudding. You could make some bone shaped cookie and bury in the 'dirt'.

Or just stay with the classic Gummy worms and Gummy bugs.

Dinosaur egg.
Separate yoke and white from about 12 eggs. Find a good hemispherical bowl and line with plastic wrap and (important) spray with oil.
Bake in a water bath of about 250 until it thoroughly sets up.

Make the white part using a nonstick pan with lots of butter to fry the white. Slide that out in a plate. Invert the baked yoke in the center.

Season with paprika (or Zartar) salt and pepper. Serve with toast points...with little pickles on the side.

Why not speak with the market, butcher, and order a BIG chicken/hen? Just need to marinade the tough old bird in, maybe buttermilk, and it's good.
Turkey legs tend to be tougher to deal with

Saw a basket of Bugles online named Dinosaur Toe Nails. I don't know how you feel about corn products and snack things in general, but if you had some good Ranch dressing and some baby carrots or other vegetables that the kids like nearby, maybe they would dip a carrot or two in the Ranch as well as a Bugle.

Deviled eggs, if the kids like them. Maybe crack and cook like Chinese tea eggs in a mild tea to make them look fossilized.

Fossil Cookies. Just a simple plain dough, rough-shaped to look like the molding a dig would make. Plastic bugs, insects, toy dino feet (all well-washed, of course) pressed into the raw cookie, then baked. Google "Fossil Cookies" for pictures. If the kids like cheese, maybe use a cheddar dough to make savory ones. Dip the feet into sweet or sweet-smoked paprika before imprinting to make the image come out a little more discernible.

Agree with LambChop about the sandwiches. One thing that I was reminded of is that many of the dinosaur cutters are rather large. You might want to consider a large enough loaf so that you can cut on the diagonal and fit the cutter on. Meat and cheese could be a problem. Or resort to PB&J or Nutella, or cream cheese and jelly, or something that you don't have to cut, other than the bread.

You could also make dinosaur cookies and have an activity for the kids to pain/decorate their cookies and bake off as a goody to tke home

If you have any dinosaur cookie cutters use them to cut out dinosaur shaped cheese, bread and fruit shapes.

The turkey legs are appropriate because there are most likely dinosaurs in birds' ancestry.

How about using dinosaur kale as a decoration? Not sure little people would want to eat it but it certainly is a cool thought that this is what they munched on.

Call them roasted t-rex legs.

Turkey legs, roasted. They're huge and make a great impression with kids! Our son loved them barbecued...32 years ago!