DANCING BEAR Fossil Collection Sorting Activity Kit with Over 100 Pcs (More Than 20 Different Fossil Varieties!), Educational ID Sheet, Color ID Cards, Bags, Magnifying Glass, and Shark Teeth

This is such a great value. The box was packed with beautiful fossils. I have a minor in Earth science and was impressed with the quality and variety of the fossils. Great gift for any budding rock hound.

I bought this fossil set for my son’s 6th birthday party, planning to give each kid some fossils and let them try to identify them (with my help) and then take them home as party favors. The set is exactly as advertised. There are several more exciting fossils in the set, including a very nice ammonite, piece of petrified wood, coprolite, some good condition medium-sized shark teeth, a piece of dinosaur bone, and a snake vertebra. And then there are tons of small shark teeth, crinoids, gastropods, clams, skate teeth, and corals. The educational materials with the set are fantastic. The pictures make identifying the fossils easy, and they provide good information about broader groups of animals represented, but also where these particular fossils came from and what specific species or genera were represented. Before the party I sorted through the set and made a bag for each kid, to ensure that everyone got at least one “wow” sort of fossil, several shark teeth, a clam, etc. Then I had the kids go through their bags and taught them about what they had. The kids (ages 3-10, but mostly 5-6) LOVED it. They were excited about all the fossils. The coprolite was especially beloved once I defined the word for them (poop. It’s fossilized poop. 5-6 year old boys found this hilarious and amazing). Needless to say, this fossil kit made my son’s birthday party one all his friends will be talking about for a while. It’s perfect as a party activity/favors for about 10 kids. If you have more kids, you might want 2 kits so everyone gets enough fossils. The kit would also be great as a family educational activity or homeschool lesson.

Grandson loved this gift, great variety

Here are the fossils I received: 4 small flat sea urchins 5 nice sized fish vertebrae 3 spiral gastropods 6 tiger eye gastropods A few petrified wood pieces 1 good condition crow shark tooth Handful of stingray teeth 1 ammonite from Morocco 1 large brachiopod 4 small pieces of coral 1 sea urchins spine 1 turtle coprolite specimen 1 agatized gastropod 1 polished orthocereas A very large handful of crinoids 7 bivalves and fragments 1 cut and polished ammonite from Madagascar Large handful of mostly sand tiger shark teeth C grade 3 tiny fossilized wood lice Couple of bone fragments 1 neonatal mackerel shark in matrix and 7 C to B grade mackerel shark teeth loose The total estimated value of this kit is $45 (conservative estimate) but most of the fun is sorting the fossils yourself. All fossils are dusty and from personal experience as a hobby fossil hunter with paleontologist friends these fossils look like they came straight from the dig site with little cleaning. These fossils may not have much collectors value but they are very fun to handle and collect nonetheless.

There's a bazillion shark teeth in my set. They're outnumbered in mass only by the amount of dust at the bottom of my bag. I do like having so many shark teeth as I can share with my students easily without depleting my collection. However it's at the cost of missing some other items. There is no card for the star shaped crinoids, and yet that's probably the 2nd most populace fossil in my set. The only orthocereas is half the size of the images shown on the website. It's incomplete, just one half of the specimen. The petrified wood & coral are all very small pieces. And there's no sea urchins or anything that matches the "dinosaur" card. I have to wonder if those use to exist in here but are now part of the reason there's so many crumbs and dust? Maybe they just weren't durable enough to survive the packaging and trip? Overall, it's a fun set to sort through and learn as you go. My 13 year old enjoys it, and the students in my K-2nd grade classes will love it. The poop specimen is unique. Would I purchase again? Probably not. I'd opt for the more premium set with fewer pieces instead. But if you're looking for a large quanitity of fossils quick, this is a good value for that.

Another great science box from Dancing Bear. Most kids love fossils and imagining the very ancient world.

My grand kids love the item. They enjoy finding and identifying the fossils. It is neatly package and easy to use guide helps to make it easy to use. Great science project starter.

I’ve ordered this a couple of times now and each experience was WILDLY different. The first time I was blown away. Lots of fossils as well as all the extra larger & polished items mentioned in the listing. The second time around I am so sad and disappointed. I was only given the bag of fossils. The polished ammonite, dinosaur poo, and other larger pieces that were mentioned in the listing were ALL missing. I was so sad because that’s mostly why I ordered again. The sorting cards which were included the first time were also missing. On top of this, I received about half of the fossils I received the first time. The first time I got this it was amazing, but I’m really cautious to order again because of how extremely different both packages were. There doesn’t seem to be checks in place to ensure that each customer receives the same quality and quantity

Très bien, instructif, plaisant à trier et à découvrir! Cela fait le plaisir des petits et des grands.

My daughter is in year 3, and they are studying rocks and fossils at the moment. We had to isolate for a couple of weeks and I wanted a fun activity, that would also support her school work. After much searching I chose this, and I'm very glad that I did. The variety of fossils contained in the box is large, and the supporting documents are nicely laid out. My daughter was able to independently use the chart to help her identity each fossil, and put it in its bag. Each bag/type of fossil also has a little info card, giving more detail and picture, plus a line drawing of what the creatures would have looked like while alive. We haven't even started looking at the chronological sequence chart yet . So much joy for both me and my daughter, and she has taken it into school to spread joy there as well 😁

Dei de presente para o neto, ele fez bastante pesquisas.

I was looking forward to this, I'm well into dinosaurs and fossils, but almost all of them were broken. Sort of disappointed, especially for the price of them. I was hoping to have lots of fun with this, but now I'm stuck trying to find all the little pieces to glue them back together and that's not only tedious but quite boring. EDIT: They are very poor on their refunds, I am still waiting for it. I have sent the package back, they refused to pay shipping until amazon go onto them and told them to pay, they then sent an invalid shipping label, they tried to make me pay for it. Don't get it. It really isn't worth it. I am tired, I have lost money, and I am angry.

Regalato al mio bimbo di 10 anni per il suo compleanno. Regalo ovviamente inaspettato e apprezzatissimo. Si è appassionato e ora sta leggendo un libro sui fossili. La confezione è arrivata rapidamente. Tutti i fogli sono in inglese ma sono accompagnati da immagini, così è molto semplice dividere e classificare la maggior parte dei fossili. Ho cercato altri articoli del genere ma non si trovano allo stesso prezzo e con le stesse quantità di fossili.