Dinosaur Fossil Dig Kit – Excavate & Assemble T-Rex & Velociraptor Skeletons| 3D Dino Bones Puzzles| Jurassic Paleontology Toy for Kids| STEM Science Activity Set| Girls & Boys Gift Ages 6+

Was a big hit with grandsons! (6 & 8)

My kids have had several variations of these fossil kits and this is by far the best quality one I've seen. Bought this for my 5 year old daughter and she loved both the excavation and now the dinosaur toy she "discovered". Pros: - Comes with 2 blocks for twice the fun. -Includes safety goggles which can adjust to a small head as well as a wooden mallet and chisel. -Dinosaur 'bones' are plastic but thick enough to not get damaged in the excavation process and hearty enough to be snapped together and played with afterwards. T-Rex is probably 10-12" long after being assembled. -Chalk is tough enough to make it a challenge, took my 5 year old old approx. 2 hours to get everything dug out and she was into it the entire time. Cons: -The pieces snapped together well and held up but a few of the joints pop out once in a while, this is very minor and happens with any of these type of kits, a little super glue fixes the problem. -Can be messy, you're letting a child smash chalk with a hammer and chisel so of course it's going to make somewhat of a mess. I put down a drop cloth and let them go at it, once finished I fold it up and shake outside. From my understanding it's just chalk so easy to clean up. Note: the directions do recommend wetting it beforehand but that sounded like even more of mess so we just did it dry and then dip the bones in water. Chunks do fly off hence the safety goggles but didn't find it to be too dusty or anything.

This was a lot of fun, but was missing a rib bone.

Keeps the youngsters happily motivated in removing bones and then assembling them. Great Gift. Good Price, Fast Shipping. A+++++

My 7 year old grandson loves it.

My son really enjoyed this as a birthday gift! It makes a bit of a mess, so I’d suggest doing it outside or in some sort of a tub. A little tricky to put together, as if you don’t push hard enough the skeletons will break. But my son thought it was fun, kept him entertained for hours and he liked learning more about fossils!

Nice idea, clay around the pieces was to hard and difficult to break away with the toolsvprovided.

Velociraptor: My 6 year old Granddaughter loved digging up the bones, washing and identifying them. But putting them together was another story. There are no instructions on how to assemble it but she figured out how it went together. I had to use pliers to get the pegs into the holes. When we got to the head it took 3 hands to fit it together and then the pegs wouldn't go into the holes. Again I tried using pliers and finally got it together only to have it fall apart when I gave it to her. We tried and tried and she finally just lost all interest in playing with it because the head kept falling apart. So here it sits. If she gets interested again, I'll try glueing it. But you'd think that the pieces would just fit and stay, right? There was also an extra leg in the clay which was humorous. We haven't done the T-Rex yet so hopefully that will be more successful!