T-Rex Fossil

15 July 2012

Eugene is still into dinosaurs. In fact, he's crazy about these prehistoric creatures.

And I chanced upon this at Kiddy Palace.


T-Rex fossil excavation kit.

I bought this in early July for Eugene's birthday present.

Ha ha, the kid was so absolutely thrilled !

The block was actually quite hard and the equipment supplied was not able to chip the block of clay (I think it was clay).

I had to bring out the hammer for it and slowly chipped at it. Eugene took over a bit of the hammering too and also used the tool to slowly saw at it.

He was really diligent and concentrated on this task. In fact, he was at it for over an hour.

After getting the fossil out, he went to wash it at the sink - slowly getting the clay out.

I think from beginning (excavating the fossil)  to end (cleaning the fossil) -  it was more than 2 hours !
Now, I think that's really good focus for a kid this age.

The kid started to try to fix the dinosaur following the diagram.

Not bad - he managed to fix the spine and the rib-cage by himself. The rest of the parts we had to fix it for him.

Ta-daa ! My T-Rex

He was so proud of it - as he had done most of the work.

Well done Eugene !