We Play – Excavation Kit

by | Feb 1, 2011 | 4 yr old, science | 1 comment

Mini Dinosaur Excavation Kit Glow In Dark ArcheologyImpulse purchases at a museum gift shop are usually not the best thing to do. However, this impulse purchase ended up being a total splurge without realizing it!

Cutie Pie wanted to visit the museum store simply because on our last visit he went in with Nana because she had to buy a gift for a friend and he saw a robotic dinosaur skeleton. So, naturally to him, we were supposed to go in again on this visit. I knew better, but we went in. I spied this small dinosaur excavation kit for $3 and thought what do I have to lose other than that it’s for 7+ and Cutie Pie is only 4?

 Once home we opened up our kit and immediately Cutie Pie was disappointed because it looked like a bar of soap and not the excavator he was hoping to build even though there was a dinosaur on the box! I explained the difference between excavating a fossil and an excavator on a construction site and he was very eager to be a paleontologist! This little activity kept him busy for at least an hour! He used the tools provided and brushed and chiseled his way through the ‘dirt’ to find 17 little plastic bones! (Major fine motor work here as well as all the science and math involved! The dirt was really like compacted chalk, but contained it didn’t make too much of a mess.)

Let me say it was not the easiest dinosaur skeleton to put together. I would imagine it would be hard even for a 7 year old, as the pieces fit together very loosely and kept falling apart. However, it turned out looking pretty neat after I glued it and a plus is that it glows in the dark and Cutie Pie is in to that lately!

I’d say for a budding paleontologist, this was the best $3 I could have spent! Now hop on over to We Play at Childhood 101 and see what others have been up to!

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  1. Tracey M.

    My son loves dinosaurs, we like reading books with dinosaur bones. This sounds like a great activity.

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