My son had a Shark & Dinosaur themed party for his 5th birthday. We purchased little shark fin cupcake toppers, but he was so sad we didn't have any dinosaur toppers. 3d printer to the rescue!

Tips for printing:

• When you prepare to print, in your slicer program scale the size proportionately until they are the width and height you want. Then uncheck the box for scaling the size proportionate and manually set the Z height to be .5mm (or whatever thickness you want). I printed at .5mm which made them strong enough to support themselves and not bend without being super fragile as well as not using much filament or being too heavy to affect the cupcakes or frosting at all.
• Being so small, some of the arms/feet sliced very weird or were "floating" (especially on the velociraptor and pterodactyl) . In Bambu Studio there is an option under Advanced to change "Wall generator" to "Arachne". This fixed that problem and made the arms and legs much nicer. I'm assuming there is a comparable setting in other slicers, though I'm not positive. Just check the preview before printing.

I was inspired by https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5250229 but I wanted to be able to vary the number I printed of each dinosaur and independently scale their sizes. My son's favorite is Mosasaurus so we made only one of those and made it larger than the others.

They were an absolute hit with the family and friends on the cupcakes my wife made. Blue frosting water, white frosting base with crushed graham crackers for the dirt under the dinosaur feet.

My son loves dinosaurs and knows the proper names of dozens and dozens of them, so we included a good spread of them:

• Mosasaurus
• Ankylosaurus
• Velociraptor
• Brontosaurus
• Pterodactyl
• Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-rex)
• Stegosaurus
• Triceratops
• Spinosaurus