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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 7, 2015 17:53:40 GMT -5
Look what my grandson picked up at A C Moore's today on sale. (I have to link to Amazon because the craft store doesn't have it on the site.) Dinosaur Dig He got another one, too. That one was for fossil teeth. He seems pretty excited to find a fossil of his own. He could get a tooth, a bone or coprolite. I am hoping that it will be something that I can cab for him.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 8, 2015 11:14:50 GMT -5
Those are very cool...Gets the young ones into hounding at home.............
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tothesummit
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Post by tothesummit on Feb 8, 2015 11:22:36 GMT -5
I would've LOVED that as a kid! I was huge dinosaur nut when I was a child.
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 8, 2015 12:10:11 GMT -5
Looks like your grandson is gonna have a blast diggin' for fossils, rockjunquie! bhiatt...
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Post by Peruano on Feb 8, 2015 18:54:21 GMT -5
I'll be the nay sayer and say that I hope he's not disappointed in what he finds in the box. I'd bet that grandmother taking him on a field trip (the state of Virginia has lots of candidate sites) where he could collect his own fossil and see it in context would be a more certain crowd pleaser. There are sites in Virginia where you can walk along cliffs and collect sharks teeth, other areas where fossil shells etc. are available. I appreciate that the kit comes with info, but a bit of innovation at the library could supplement whatever local fossil material you might focus on. Maybe this is for the followup to the dino kit. Want a piece of dino bone (not necessarily spectacular red or blue like some)? I'll send you a piece for gratis if you PM an address. Or how about a sliver of dino dodo? Now that should get a kids interest. Thanks for taking an interest in the grandson, and I hope you look for ways to drag him further into the realm of nature, science, and nonelectronic existence. Tom
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 8, 2015 19:47:40 GMT -5
I'll be the nay sayer and say that I hope he's not disappointed in what he finds in the box. I'd bet that grandmother taking him on a field trip (the state of Virginia has lots of candidate sites) where he could collect his own fossil and see it in context would be a more certain crowd pleaser. There are sites in Virginia where you can walk along cliffs and collect sharks teeth, other areas where fossil shells etc. are available. I appreciate that the kit comes with info, but a bit of innovation at the library could supplement whatever local fossil material you might focus on. Maybe this is for the followup to the dino kit. Want a piece of dino bone (not necessarily spectacular red or blue like some)? I'll send you a piece for gratis if you PM an address. Or how about a sliver of dino dodo? Now that should get a kids interest. Thanks for taking an interest in the grandson, and I hope you look for ways to drag him further into the realm of nature, science, and nonelectronic existence. Tom I wholeheartedly agree. My daughter and her partner are very, very good about fieldtrips with him. I cab with him and share my rocks with him. But, because I have really bad arthritis in my hips and knees (psoriatic arthritis like RA) I leave the trips to my daughter. I asked some people here at RTH a few years ago for some fossils to share with him. Everyone really stepped up and made him a super happy kid. This little kit was just something he could do at home in the winter. I think it would be cool to get a kid interested if they weren't already.
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