Sandbox Fossil Find

What You Need:

• Modeling clay
• Petroleum jelly (such as Vaseline)
• Chicken bones
• Paintbrush

What You Do:

1. Help your child knead the clay until it's soft and pliable. Form the clay into several balls and flatten each one into a disc about 1 inch thick.
2. Brush a thin layer of petroleum jelly over the top of the clay disc (to keep the bone from sticking to it).
3. Take one of the chicken bones and firmly press it into the clay. Carefully remove it, leaving an impression in the clay.
4. Let the clay harden before putting it in the sandbox. Repeat with different bones to make more fossils. Be sure to give your little paleontologist a paintbrush and specimen bucket for his excavations!