NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Break Open 15 Premium Geodes – Includes Goggles, Detailed Learning Guide & 3 Display Stands - Great Stem Science Gift for Mineralogy & Geology Enthusiasts of Any Age

Trying to find alternatives to video games? Think your kids will benefit from hitting things with a hammer? Then this gives you an afternoons worth of focus! Because there are 15 geodes and some are pretty tough, it gave the kids an activity for a good couple of hours. Each geode produces at least 3 sections, the larger ones many more. Some are a bit duff some are really beautiful. That’s part of the fun. Quite expensive, but good fun and a nice ornamental display

All specimens in our collection were VERY similar. Not a lot of variety with internal crystal size or colour, which was disappointing. Instructions on opening geodes was basic and we had better results by watching various YouTube videos before opening our second specimen. Still, a good experience enjoyed by the whole family...

Great project and good communication with the seller

The media could not be loaded. Be prepared to use your muscles. We purchased a large chisel with hand guard and used a small but weighty metal mallet. We positioned the rock in a towel nest on concrete in the garden, away from windows, and whacked away. These were purchased for a 8 year old who had great fun fitting them but just couldn't break some. All very exciting and all round a great gift. Everyone joined in and there were lots of oooooos and aaaaaahs.

Waste of money, very disappointing. No colours at all, some different even have geo’s in!! 2 ok ones out of 15. Very disappointing for the money. Go to the shop and buy them instead.

I was really looking forward to seeing what types of crystals i would get out of these but i was really disappointed when 3 rocks didn't have any crystals in and were just solid rock (i kept cracking them to see if there was a vain or anything but nothing). Also, we only got 2 type of crystals (clear quarts and calcite). Don't get me wrong they are all stunning in their own way but I was hoping for at least one other type so that everything wasn't just clear. Some of the stones were really hard to break so I wouldn't recommend kids to d this on their own.

It was a christmas present. My son h was delighted. Very cool idea.

Bought for my daughter. She loves it. Not opened all of them but it feels the chance of finding any with any colour are slim. But still fun going mining in the gardenUpdate: Not all of them are geodes so really disappointing and not worth the cost of a child being upset