If your kids love archeology, digging in the dirt, or finding treasured, they are really going to dig this!
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My cousin and her daughter (my God daughter) came down a couple of months ago, for a girl’s overnight with myself and my own 2 girls, and so thoughtfully, she had brought some great gifts for the kids! It was so sweet. It was unexpected and unnecessary, but I do love gifts that are both project-like, fun and educational.
This is one of those gifts,…. which was for {JM}: Dig & Play Treasure Island.
Some may not think of it as educational, initially, but many of us homeschoolers, tend to quickly identify the learning aspects that are truly in just about anything, and everything.
Dig and Play Treasure Island brings out the excavator in your child. The kit contains a plaster block, which contains buried treasures and coins. Using the specially designed digging tool, they must dig at the plaster little by little, to find the treasures.
It takes hard work, determination and ambition, but is ultimately rewarding. To me, this helps instill the life lessons, that nothing worth having, comes easy. What’s more, {JM} spent hours having fun, was excited about what he had found, and inspired to keep going to see what else was still yet to be discovered.
By reading and following the directions (such a necessary skill in life), {JM} learned that wetting the plaster, would make the digging easier, because the plaster would soften. (Science).
Soon he could see the edge of something! He dug more ambitiously around the treasure, so that he could get it out.
Gold and silver coin treasures were being exhumed all over the place. Because the plaster digging was a dusty job, {JM} wore a face mask that Daddy had on hand. But a bandana would do as well.
{JM} also learned that the more water he sprayed on the plaster, the easier the job got!
What’s this? It looks like a treasure chest! He wondered what was inside.
Wow!! Look at the beautiful gems! And a die?
Dig and Play Treasure Island, also comes with a game board. and game directions. Game pieces are also exhumed while digging in the plaster block.
So once the digging is all done, the fun doesn’t end!
What a great gift idea, for your kids, or other kids in your life.
I’m so glad he enjoyed this! I bought one for the boys to do at the daycare but we haven’t done it yet. I didn’t realize it was a game, too! XO
Seriously cool! My son would love this (in a few years!)