Discovery™ Rock & Gem Dig Kit
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10488012
$16.99
Discovery™ Rock & Gem Dig Kit
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Description
Children who aspire to become archeologists will enjoy excavating and identifying gemstones using this Discovery kit. This kit includes a mallet and dowel to chip away the rocks and unearth real gemstones. Gift your kids this science kit if they are interested in learning about the formation of gems and rocks.
Click here for instructions and tips.
Click here for instructions and tips.
Details:
- Identify 11 hidden gemstones
- Set up time is 5 minutes
- For ages 12 and up
- Instruction manual and bonus poster included
Children who aspire to become archeologists will enjoy excavating and identifying gemstones using this Discovery kit. This kit includes a mallet and dowel to chip away the rocks and unearth real gemstones. Gift your kids this science kit if they are interested in learning about the formation of gems and rocks.
Click here for instructions and tips.
Click here for instructions and tips.
Details:
- Identify 11 hidden gemstones
- Set up time is 5 minutes
- For ages 12 and up
- Instruction manual and bonus poster included
Discovery™ Rock & Gem Dig Kit is rated
out of
5 by
29.
Rated 4 out of
5
by
juliab1122 from
Was a fun activity
Kids (aged 6 and 8) really enjoyed it. Was relieved that both sets had the full 11 stones that we expected. Like others mentioned, it is a huge mess, we did it outdoors. It took awhile to get through the whole brick, and the 6 year old needed help. Would have been nice to have a few other tools, our chisel got worn down but we had other excavating type of toys from treasure x. The goggles were too small even for a 6 year old, but it was a cute novelty.
Date published: 2020-06-29
Rated 1 out of
5
by
weaveone from
Seriously disappointed
Bought is as a quarentine activity during the covid-19 for my daughter. She was so excited! After all the hard work of breaking the whole thing bit by bit there was only 1 stone! Suoer disappointed!!!!
Date published: 2020-03-21
Rated 5 out of
5
by
LindseyB from
Nice stones; my son enjoys it
This is the 2nd Christmas that I have purchased this set for my son. He is 12 with high functioning autism and has a thing for rocks. I just put the brick on a baking sheet with some newspaper underneath on the kitchen table. That contains a good 85% of the mortar. The rest, just vacuum up. The mortar is light and powdery but somehow it doesn't get in the air; just drops to the pan. My son enjoyed digging out the stones both times. Its nice that its predictable; you ARE going to get exactly those stones pictured on the box. The same number, the same size, exactly the same. So he knows what he is looking for and how many stones he has left to find. And you know that you didn't waste your money on a brick with random, worthless looking rocks inside.
The mallet and chisel work very well; there is no need to locate your 'real' tools to do this.
Note: the safety goggles it comes with are small in size. They fit my 4-yr-old just fine, but the 12 year old, not at all. I think max age it would fit is 7. My son just used the safety glasses he already owns instead.
Date published: 2020-01-31
Rated 1 out of
5
by
Quincey from
Contained ZERO gems
Very disappointing product. It did not a single gemstone. A complete waste of money, just an empty block of concrete.
Date published: 2019-12-08
Rated 3 out of
5
by
Lilbri35 from
Fun but big mess and a gem missing
My children love gems and they both bought a kit. One kit had 11 gems as advertised but the other only had 10. I had a huge mess to clean up afterwards and a disappointed child. We searched every inch of the block to verify a gem was missing. Disappointed thr company doesn't make sure they actually put 11 gems in the block before sealing the brick!! The gems we did uncover are neat and it was a fun activity for the kit that worked correctly.
Date published: 2019-12-07
Rated 5 out of
5
by
BoyMom2018 from
So much fun treasure hunting!!
It’s a mess but cleans up pretty easily. So much fun from ages 5-11.
Date published: 2018-12-18
Rated 4 out of
5
by
Imperial55 from
Awesome dig
Grandson loves the dig. Started out slow but once the first gem found he really got into it.
He is 9
Date published: 2018-07-11
Rated 2 out of
5
by
Meeker89 from
Kind of disaapointing
Very hard to break with tools given. Had to get hammer and screw driver to make a dent in it.
Date published: 2018-05-31