Video of P.E.I. dad painting over his growing son's dinosaur mural goes viral

Alex MacIsaac · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 12, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 12

The Jurassic play is decidedly implicit for a 10-year-old lad connected Prince Edward Island, and a video practice of that transition of clip has amassed millions of views connected societal media.

A overgarment of bluish overgarment present covers a colourful dinosaur mural that erstwhile filled a full partition successful Finn Cameron's bedroom. 

"It's bittersweet," said his father, Jordan Cameron. 

He painted the mural six years agone arsenic a astonishment for his four-year-old son, who "was precise into dinosaurs astatine the time." 

Now Finn is older, little funny successful dinosaurs, and sharing the country with a younger brother. 

When they decided to overgarment implicit it, Cameron's woman acceptable up a camera and filmed the process. He didn't deliberation the video would extremity up getting millions of views successful conscionable a fewer days. 

"I was benignant of laughing, 'I don't truly cognize wherefore you're taping this.'"

He understood erstwhile helium saw it. His woman had edited the caller video onto the end of the 1 changeable six years ago, erstwhile Finn saw the prehistoric scenery for the archetypal time. 

He walks into the room, his eyes widen, and his rima drops as he stares at the creatures towering implicit him. 

"Wow, Mommy, travel spot this!" you tin perceive Finn saying successful the aged video, taking a measurement backmost to get a amended presumption earlier going implicit to his dada and hugging him. 

Just supra the baseboard, moving the magnitude of the wall, brownish overgarment represents world encasing a achromatic fossil. Moving up, the country gives mode to lush greenish foliage, thenar trees, and a fewer bluish dinosaur eggs successful 1 corner. 

An orangish dinosaur with purple spikes and a toothy grin stands connected 2 feet. Another dinosaur, much of a pinkish colour, pokes its agelong cervix into the framework connected the right, stretching to wound disconnected a thenar histrion frond. 

Blue entity surrounds them and a volcano erupts successful the distance, orangish-red lava pouring from its rima and grey fume billowing out. 

The video cuts to Cameron creating the mural, followed by shots of the finished product. 

Then it cuts again, to the contiguous day. An older Jordan Cameron stands successful the aforesaid country with a overgarment roller successful manus — covering up his instauration with each pass.

We spot a smoothly painted de-dinosaured wall, and an older and taller mentation of Finn. 

It ends with a last chopped to the aged video, and Finn's younger aforesaid staring up astatine the dinos. 

"It's the extremity of the small era," Cameron said of the episode. 

"When you person kids, you unrecorded 100 small lives each fewer months, things alteration truthful much. And truthful this was conscionable benignant of turning the small leafage connected different small life." 

Since posting the video, Cameron says the notifications person been constant.

"Every clip I unfastened my phone, it astir crashes due to the fact that there's excessively galore updates," helium said. As of Friday astatine 6 p.m. AT, it had been viewed astir 18 cardinal times. 

He thinks the video took disconnected due to the fact that it shows thing astir parents tin subordinate to: "When you recognize you don't person small babies anymore. The ocular practice of conscionable the overgarment going implicit the mural… benignant of closing the publication connected different chapter." 

As for the boys, their adjacent section includes bunk beds, and perchance a new Nintendo-themed mural, painted by their dad.