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The "Discover Amber" kit was fun for the entire family. Buffing down the pieces of Amber to reveal the bugs inside was a real treat for me and my kids. In one of our pieces we found a really cool looking insect. This kit was hands-on, educational and fun. I highly recommend it!

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The Discover Amber Kit comes with five pieces of real amber, six sheets of sandpaper, a foil tray, a magnifying glass, a booklet, and a real scorpion inside a piece of fake amber on a key chain.

If you're looking for the instructions, it's on the back of the booklet. Sand the amber on one plane in a tin of water for a few minutes on each piece of sandpaper starting with the one numbered 1 and moving on to number 6. There's really only enough room for one person to work in the pan at a time, but you can always get another tin of water.

My eight year-old daughter and I only polished one side of each piece, as instructed, so it looks like a window into the amber. The organisms trapped inside are very small, smaller than an ant. Some of the pieces don't have any visible organisms at all. We tried the magnifying glass, but it is plastic and not very functional. Still, we admire the amber for its beauty.

The booklet is short but packed with information. It tells where amber comes from, how the insects get caught inside, how to tell real amber from fake amber, and a little about scorpions, as well. An interesting fact I learned: the amber in the kit is 2 to 40 million years old.

My daughter and I both had fun and learned something together today. She gives it five stars.

This product was provided for review by Discover with Dr. Cool.

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This kit was a big disappointment! I was very excited to get this kit and begin polishing the amber with my son. We read the book which I found to be educational and interesting but the fun ended there. We highly polished all the pieces of amber and only found 2 small ant like bugs. One of them was so close to the surface that we polished 1/2 the bug away before we could examine it. The other was so small we could only tell it was a bug with a magnifying glass and then only barely. I contacted the company directly before writing this review in the hopes that they would respond. They did not return my email. Too bad it was such a great idea.

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My grandson, age 6, was excited to polish the amber to see what kind of "bugs" might be inside. Unfortunately, there were few. However, he got a sense of pride when he presented the polished result to his mother for Mother's Day. He did a good job, and didn't lose interest, even after he learned it was basically clear, because it became very pretty gift, that he made himself.

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Enjoyed polishing the amber. I bought the kit to learn how to polish the amber and be able to restore my daughters amber jewelry.