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Easy Gigantosaurus & Dinosaur Step by Step Face Paint Tutorial

Gigantosaurus step by step face paint tutorial. Now if your kids are anything like mine then they love the TV show Giganotosaurus. Harry in particular often likes to watch the young dinosaurs and all the trouble and fun they get up to. And with National Dinosaur Day being on the 1st of June what better way to celebrate than have some fun creating your own dino friends at home. And trying out easy face paint dinosaurs.

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a scene from gigantosaurus and some of the charcters that we tried to create

Gigantosaurus step by step face paint tutorial

If you have not heard of Gigantosaurus before the story is based on the boy that cried wolf. Only this time it is not a boy or a wolf. Rather Bonehead a young dinosaur and the scary Gigantosaurus. Bonehead volunteers to be the dino-kids lookout whenever they go into the jungle to play. Unfortunately, he is the original boy dinosaur who cried wolf, or in this case, GIGANTOSAURUS! Finally, Bonehead’s young dinosaur friends refuse to believe his warnings and the Gigantosaurus really turns up!

I really love that at end of each story in this prehistoric world of Gigantosaurus the main characters have learnt a very valuable lesson. Over time they become friendly with the fiercest dinosaur. With many of the episodes include scary problems which Giganto’s powers help to solve.

Dinosaur face paint tutorial

As part of the launch, Charlie and I have been having fun re-creating some of the characters at home with face paints! We have had great fun trying them out ahead of National Dinosaur Day. Now confession time here, I am not a master in face painting, in fact, other than perhaps the odd clown I have hardly done it. And this is my first time attempting dinosaur face painting. So the good news is that you can recreate these at home quickly, easily and simply! With some adorable characters included in the Disney dino tale, it wasn’t easy to make a decision on who to start with. And we knew we had to include Giganotosaurus himself.

Materials needed for easy face paint dinosaurs

If you are going to try this yourself at home then I suggest making sure you have the following:

  • Baby wipes on hand to correct any mistakes
  • The following face paint colours – light green, yellow, dark green, brown, orange or copper, brown and white face paint. Of course, you could use our child’s favourite colours.
  • We also used black paint for outlines and details
  • Paper to make your own face painting stencils
  • We used a paintbrush and sponge which is a quick way of covering larger areas. Although I have seen little paint rollers too.

Charlie has sensitive skin and so we need to be careful with face paints. To make sure he was okay we did a few test patches of the different colours the day before. The designs below would be great for Giganotosaurus themed birthday parties.

The designs

Charlie has a thing about enormous Triceratopses at the moment. So we decided we had to try Tiny out first. As you can probably guess in the series Tiny is one of the little dinos, a young Triceratops. To replicate our facing painting attempts you will need green, yellow and black face paint. I used a sponge to apply the base layer and the nose before using a paintbrush to add the finer details. This is really quite straightforward to do and did not take long. The trick is using a sponge.

easy dinosaur face painting tutorial includes youtube video

Our second attempt was at Mazu who is a young Ankylosaurus. This is also super easy – we used a bronze colour to match but you could use a light brown or brown with white over the top to lighten it. This one is ideal if time is short or your little one is not a fan of sitting still! We took a closer look and the scales are based on those of the character.

easy dinosaur face painting tutorial includes youtube video

Our final creation was of the big beast Gigantosaurus himself. This does take a little more time, but it is still very easy. As I have a very sneaky way to start you off on the right track to get the shape for Giganotosaurus. This was Charlie’s favourite by far and it is good if you have a little one who is doesn’t like face paint all over or near their eyes. Which for this roarsome adventurer seemed to be the case.

Home drawn by an inexperienced face painter - giganotosaurus easy face paint dinosaur

stencil of gigantosaurus for face painting
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Youtube – Gigantosaurus step by step face paint tutorial

If you would like to try these out then you can find a step by step video to recreate them on my youtube below to create all three designs and Giganotosaurus.

I hope you enjoy the step-by-step video guide we had such giant fun making it for you. Tiny Pop is a kids TV channel available on Freeview, Virgin, Sky and FreeSat which shows a wide range of fun programmes for all the family. Not only that but they have a great website full of activities, videos and games, perfect for giving your little ones some light-hearted fun.

Gigantosaurus arrives on Tiny Pop on weekdays at 7.30am and 4 pm and at weekends from 1.30 pm on Tiny Pop, Freeview 207, Sky 617, Virgin 737 and Freesat 605.

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35 Responses

  1. Sending this to my brother – no excuse now! Excellent tutorial

  2. These look great! I am looking forward to watching Gigantosaurus as we’re joining along with the watch-along on Monday. My kids absolutely love the book too, lots of fun.

  3. Wow! This is absolutely stunning, I loved the artwork you’ve featured here. It’s so mesmerizing!

  4. Those are all wonderful looks and wish that I could pull that off! If I tried to make any of those designs…. you would seriously not be Abel to tell what it is supposed to be 🙂 Looks amazing and love the one where the mouth connects with his 🙂

  5. Ha. How fun is this! Would certainly keep you entertained for a day in quarantine!

  6. I can honestly say that I have not heard of Gigantosaurus. Based upon the boy who cried wolf ? Seems interesting. The paint job is spot on.

  7. Amazing artwork! Kids would love this! I will practicing to do this. Thank youcforcthe turorial.

  8. Gigantosaurus fae paint looks so cute on kids. Your kids look so cute with those paint.

  9. We loved dinosaurs so much when we were younger and my niece and nephew are getting into more as well and I’m excited to introduce them to face painting lol. Love the post!

  10. Cool! Face paint… Looks so real especially the dianosour

  11. 👌😂it is an amazing activity to do while this time…i think i should have much fun while doing this…

  12. This looks like such a great idea. I would love to do this with my 8 year old son, but I don’t have any face paint. 🙁

  13. Wow this looks fab. So much fun and a great way to get interactive with play too. The face paint is much better than I could have done lol x

  14. It so fun the way the teeth go into his own. I love that face paint!

  15. Aww this looks so fun and it turned out so well. Might have to try this one out someday!

  16. This is so cute face paint how I wish I have a great talent is painting so I will do this to my nephew kids. This is awesome.

  17. What!? You did that! Perfect! Oh, I bet he just loved it…… In the pictures your little guy looks so happy!

  18. THis is lovely. I would like to do these step by step procedure to my 3 year old boy.

  19. I love the cute face painting with dino, so cute and creative and yet the teeth can be shared, amazing position

  20. I love the design! It’s really cute and creative, face painting is totally fun! Thanks for this tutorial! 🙂

  21. Wow, I wish I could do such a thing because if I did, my students would want me to paint their face with dinosaurs.

  22. This is so cute! I think there is a time in every child’s life, no matter if boy or a girl, when they are so much into dinosaurs. The gigantosaurus face painting is so cool, I bet it would be the main attraction at a themed birthday party.

  23. These painted face masks are so adorable! I even would like one for a day!

  24. Hahaha this is so cool. I am going to try it soon. Looks sick!

  25. How cool those face paintings are! National dinosaur Day? Well I never! I don’t know whether to feel sad or grateful that we no longer share the planet with dinosaurs. A fascinating species that engage children.

  26. How wonderful to know about this, coincidentally, I am teaching my daughter about dinosaurs, and this will be quite helpful in addition to all the activities we have done, such as exploring to be paleontologists. This is just wonderful for me!

  27. These look great! I particularly like the way you use your son’s teeth as the Gigantosaurus teeth.

  28. These painted face masks are so adorable. My children will be very happy to see this!

  29. These face painting look great, I really like the dinosaur 🦖

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