I have been buying these kits for years to use in my elementary science class and unfortunately, this year was a total FAIL! Oriental trading company has the same photo and description up on their site but what I was sent is not what is described: you now receive a gray soft rock that breaks in half and a neon dinosaur figurine rolls out. Awful and not scientific in the least.
mmoreno4
April 27, 2019
– Chicago IL
Kit was great!
My daughter was drilled to see all the tine dinosaurs in the box. She had a blast!
Cubscouterextrodinair
June 09, 2018
– Wyomimg
Great purchase
Great for cub scout Day camp....only warning cover table even if working outside and be gentle
LisaStill
April 25, 2018
– McDonough, GA
Will order these again!
Our students LOVED being junior “archaeologists”! The excitement when they “found” a fossil was worth the dust that comes with this project!
kellyk8
October 11, 2016
Great value for price.
Overall very interesting activity for all participants Kindergarten to grade 5. Some pieces were broken when the "chisel" nicked them in the substrate during the extraction.
TheCatLady
August 05, 2016
– Near Chicago, IL
The kids liked these
We bought a set of these for prizes for our game booth at the county fair last month. These kits seem to have been chosen more than the dinosaur skeletons or toy plastic dinos were. I think the boys liked them more than the girls did. The girls didn't seem very interested in dinosaurs.
DinoDiva
May 05, 2016
– Amite, LA
My upward bound students loved this activity. It helped them understand fossils better. It also helped them to understand archeology
To motivate your students select this item. They will really enjoy unearthing the dinosaurs, and reassembling them.
Mernilicious
February 15, 2016
– Colorado
Fun for the price!
My 8 year old girl requested a dinosaur themed birthday. Seven boys & girls attended so we needed activities to do. This was the one my daughter was the most excited about but the only one we did not finish during the party. Pros: we received a variety of kits so that each child got their own Dino; the tools held up; and the activity kept everyone's attention. Cons: very dusty (at least I read other reviews and had everyone work on top of an old sheet on the floor... They had an authentic anthropologist within minutes); I should have planned for more time (I budgeted 15 min but all the kids needed double that); and you can not excavate the skeleton intact (but the kids seemed perfectly happy with their own pile of bones).
Lauquan
November 18, 2015
– NC
Great Gift idea
Just the idea of viewing your effort displayed, good for the science lovers.
Deedlebugs
September 11, 2015
– Glendive, MT
Small, but fun
We used these to begin the lesson block on dinosaurs. It also was a prelude to dissection and the high level of care to use in the labs.
Greece78
May 15, 2015
Missing Pieces
After digging we found that there were missing bones. It requires you to glue the dinosaurs together (glue not included), which is nearly impossible. It was also messier than I thought it would be. The bones are also very fragile and we ended up breaking a couple.
happy2lips
October 26, 2014
– Madison, WI
All of the kits are the same
I bought this for my budding 7 year old granddaughter paleontologist, thinking that there would be a different dinosaur in each kit. Not true. If I had been buying this for a classroom, it would have been just fine to have the same dinosaur in each kit. However, that was not the case. I really thought, from the description, that there would be different dinosaurs. Someone should redo the description.
