Kids love dinosaurs and I love reusing household items. Here's a cute craft for reusing those K-Cup coffee pods!
You Will Need:
Used K-Cup coffee pods
Acrylic paint (we used brown and green)
Cupcake wrappers
Pipe cleaners in assorted colors , cut into approximately 1" pieces
Googly eyes (optional)
Glue, general purpose or tacky
Permanent markers
Scissors
Large safety pin or small nail (to use as hole punch)
Directions:
1. Empty, wash, and dry your K-Cup coffee pods. 
2. Paint K-Cups using acrylic paint. Let dry. Paint 2nd coat. Let dry. We used brown and dark green paint.
3. Fold a cupcake wrapper in half, colored side out, and flatten.
For Triceratops:
4a. Put glue in a semi-circle in the center of the wrapper and place the open end of the K-Cup on the glue so that the hole in the narrow end of the cup faces down (away from the cupcake wrapper). Hold together until dry.
5a. Put a pipe cleaner in the hole as a horn. Glue on, or color eyes. Decorate as desired.
6a. Punch a hole on each side of the K-Cup and place 2 additional pipe cleaners (Optional).
For Dilophosaurus:
Complete steps 1 through 3 above.
4b. Trace a circle around the narrow end of the K-Cup on the center of the wrapper. Cut out the circle.
5b. Slide the wrapper over the K-cup with the colored part of the wrapper facing the narrow end of the K-Cup.
6b. Put a pipe cleaner in the hole as a horn. Decorate the face using googly eyes or marker.
7b. Cut a narrow slit in the top and bottom of the wrapper.
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