Engaging Activity for Kids (& Adults)
Quality product that provides hours of fun for little ones… Adults may have to help remove residual plaster bits stuck in crevices.Real authentic specimens, and definitely worth the cost! Will recommend to any parent whose child is into dinosaurs and fossils.

Real fossils!
Gonna be honest, bought this for my self. 😀 caught it on a deal for $17ish and well, I have no impulse control, and love fossils.So here the deal. This would make a great gift, and I’m sure kids would love it. I did and am thinking about getting another one.Pro: came with 15 actual fossils.Con: the bone looks like a regular rock, and I didnt get the orthoceras. Some of the fossils like the Mosa tooth are broken and glued togethor, and the trilobite was super fragile to the point just gently rinsing it in a bowl of water was causing it to flake apart.Pro: instead of the orthoceras, i got a flat patterned black fossil. Lady at the museum downtown told me it looked like fossilized skin! The trilobite was like a 2nd activity! A 3d jigsaw puzzle!Con: the brachipod was extremely pitted, and when washed smelled horrible, like lake sludge.Pro: the fossil poop didnt smell bad XDPro: Came in a nice breakable brick yiu have to “excavate” the fossils from. Was fun at first.Con: Super messy, the dust gets every where, and I dont many kids with attention soams long enough to gently carve out each fossil.Pro: came with toolsCon: very small tools amd I have giant hands. Probably not an issue if i had been of the right age group lol.Overall. It’s fun, would be a cool gift. Has real fossil, but they are low grade. You may not get everything listed, and have to be super diligent to make sure you get them all as some are pretty small. And its messy.Catch it on sale I’ll probably buy a couple for my kid cousins… and maybe another for my self. 🙂

Great homeschool project
 My girls love these so much! Keeps them busy! My youngest (6 years old) tears into it like crazy, my oldest (almost 11) takes her time. It’s fun to watch them match each fossil to the pictures and descriptions in the book! Keeps them busy for hours and a great project to tie into our paleontology lessons

I would have not guessed how much the kids like it
For reasons I cannot fathom, the kids go absolutely bananas for these. It’s basically an assortment of fossil replicas suspended in clay. Set out a drop cloth or take outdoors! This stuff can be a mess. But the kids think it’s the biggest fun. And it lasts for a long time. I would have guessed it would take a few minutes and hey presto! All done! But no. They chipped and carved and brushed and splashed and so forth for quite a while. We left ours outside on the patio and the kids would go out for a while each day to dig until it was finally depleted. Totally worth it. Go figure.

My daughter loved this and was hooked from the moment she uncovered the first fossil and now really enjoyed studying them and identifying which is which.As others have said, the brick is a bit hard to start with so it’d be best to add water to soften, but poke some small holes first to allow it to soak in. The fossils were also quite grouped together, so to get one out, you’d reveal another which had to come out first. And yes, this gets quite messy, which of part of the fun!We also found it quite tricky to get all of the plaster off when rinsing, and although we got all 15 out intact, the shark tooth broke whilst we were cleaning it, so I’d recommend being quite careful with them; some are more fragile than others and younger children might be a little heavy handed when digging.Overall, a brilliant gift for any child interested fossils/science.

Design: Das Kit kommt in einer Box, die aussieht, als hätte sie eine Zeitreise aus der Kreidezeit direkt in Ihr Wohnzimmer gemacht. Mit den mitgelieferten Werkzeugen fühlt man sich wie Indiana Jones auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen T-Rex.Inhalt: Mit 15 echten prähistorischen Fossilien zum Ausgraben bietet dieses Kit mehr Geschichte als mein alter Geschichtslehrer in einem ganzen Schuljahr. Von Haifischzähnen bis zu Dinosaurierknochen – hier wird jeder zum Entdecker!Lernfaktor: Nicht nur Kinder, auch Erwachsene können hier etwas lernen. Zum Beispiel, dass Geduld eine Tugend ist, besonders wenn man versucht, ein Fossil aus seinem steinernen Gefängnis zu befreien, ohne es zu zerstören.Spaßfaktor: Es gibt nichts Befriedigenderes, als mit Hammer und Meißel bewaffnet, ein Stück Erdgeschichte freizulegen. Das Gefühl, wenn man das erste Mal einen echten Fossil berührt, ist unbezahlbar – fast so gut wie der Fund eines unberührten Kühlschranks nach einer langen Reise.Fazit: Das NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Mega Fossil Dig Kit ist ein Muss für jeden, der sich für Geschichte und Wissenschaft begeistert. Es ist der perfekte Weg, um Kinder für Naturwissenschaften zu begeistern und gleichzeitig das Wohnzimmer in eine archäologische Grabungsstätte zu verwandeln. Ein echtes Abenteuer für die ganze Familie!