Eggs Of A Far Different Variety
Newcastle Herald
Friday March 19, 1999
THEY aren't chocolate and definitely can't be eaten, but real dinosaur eggs on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney this Easter weekend make fascinating viewing.
The eggs are part of the museum's Terrorsaurus exhibition, which is open during the school holidays.
Children can get involved in heaps of activities at the museum including dinosaur sponge painting and a `more than dinosaur quiz'.
They can also see `roaring, moving and hatching robotic dinosaurs'.
Families can join in with the museum's dinosaur poet, as he roams the gallery.
David Jones' Elizabeth Street City Store has also joined the dinosaur party, and kids can visit the seventh floor between April 10 and 18 and make their own dinosaur model, thanks to construction toy K'Nex.
And while you're there take a look at he K'Nex moving models of Stegosaurus and Pteranodon, which took about 530 hours to design and build and are made from more than 40,000 pieces.
If you want to learn more about the dinosaurs, staff from the museum will have touch trays of fossils and other pre-historic pieces at David Jones' fifth floor on April 13 and 15.
And on April 12 and 14 treat the kids to free dinosaur face painting at David Jones' or a dinosaur shadow puppet show on April 16 and 17.
For more information phone the Australian Museum on 02 9320-6000.
© 1999 Newcastle Herald