Make your own fossil

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Written By Kim Manunui

Learn about fossils and then have a go at making your own fossils!

Watch this video to learn all about how fossils are formed. Then read the instructions below to see how to make your own fossils by making impressions in clay or dough with natural objects.

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To take this activity a step further, you can fill the impression with plaster of paris, let it set, and then peel the clay off to reveal your fossil. This is a good way to demonstrate how the impression made by an animal that decomposes in mud, can fill with sediment that eventually turns to rock to form a fossil. We did this activity with salt dough shaped like a bowl. We made an impression in the salt dough bowl with a toy dinosaur, and then filled it with plaster of paris. We also did this successfully with play dough. Check out our fossils below!

Watch the video below to learn more about fossils and paleontology. Check out our Nature Connector about fossil hunting and go hunting for your own fossils!

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

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