NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Rock Collection Advent Calendar 2024 - Advent Calendar for Kids with 24 Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils for Kids, Complete Gem & Fossil Collection Christmas Countdown Calendar

This was great for my science-minded granddaughter! A new beautiful rock for every day of Advent…counting down to Christmas!

This was a gift for my best friend’s son for Christmas, and he just absolutely flipped out. It made me feel really good to see him so excited.

I posted about this calendar on social media when I first heard about it, and one of my followers gifted it to me! I have had so much fun waking up each morning and opening a new little door. I'm only halfway through the month, and I already have plans to get one of the other national geographic Advent calendars next year, I'm having so much fun with this. So far, it has been a really interesting mix of polished stones, crystals, a geode fragment, and lots of fossils like an urchin and a bivalve. The kit comes with a little magnifying glass and dig tool, and also a little bag to store your treasures in. A handy chart on the side gives you a little guide so you can figure out what the days find is and learn a few interesting facts about it. I have told so many people about this. Can't wait for my big dig kit I get to open on day 24!

My youngest son loves rocks and this. Each day a surprise. I wasn't expecting the items to be as big. It has been a great learning experience for my son and each day he learns something new about the item. It offers a range of bright colors and each is shown uniquely. However, the day day left something to be desired. I expected something hidden where you would have to break open to see what eas inside, like the pictures showed. Instead it was a unique piece of chalk. The chalk looked cool, but that was about it.

I bought this for my 4 year old gdaughter and she asolutely loved it. We talked every day and she shpwed me her new "jewel" or rock. All of the adults were very impressed with this gift. I worked at a Montessori School for 15 years and i am so thrilled with this item - I am gifting one to each of the 3 classroms this next year - and all her cousins!

Muy lindo! Hermosa calidad, a mi hijo le encanto

Overall this advent calendar is great, but they aren’t honest about what’s inside. My nephew has been looking for a grey agate for a long time and when he saw one on the outside he spent 24 days being VERY excited. Well today is Christmas Eve and no grey agate.Many of the other rocks are pretty and overall it was a hit. Although it won’t be here for Christmas, he’ll still get a grey agate, just from a reliable source. Next time I’d put together my own version of this instead of purchasing.

The first week or so we got mostly all the nice polished rocks, which I think most purchasers are going to be expecting to be in every day. After that, we got the “earthy” fossils. The “dig” they advertised on the box wasn’t much, but we still got a good rock from it.