The Big Dig bucket was so fun to do!! We loved sifting through the sand finding all the different kind of rocks. The geodes were also a big hit with our family!! Definitely worth every penny to do as a family or even alone.
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Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 115 reviews.
4 large geodes in my bucket that I cut immediately. They were gorgeous and so many different rocks.
My family and I enjoy the mystery of what we are going to find.
Love love loved this bucket!! Have been recommending it to everyone! My boyfriend and I bought one to do together and it’s definitely MORE than worth the price!
2 of my grandkids loved 😍 🥰 digging through the Big Dig.
Our whole family had a great time with this bucket!!
I really like this and I find it very relaxing with my family.
I didn’t get an identification chart but other than that I loved the purchase
I got the 5 gallon bucket. This was so fun!! Can’t wait to get another. Lots of sharks teeth, fossils, all sizes of tumbled rocks, tons of raw rocks. And Geodes. Love Love Love !!!
It was a lot of fun and more than expected.
Really fun! Only problem was sifters were cracked in middle and the sides had pieces broken so had to put duck tape over sharp edges. I’m sure the weight from stones in shipping was what caused them to break. They enjoyed it and made great memories, thank you
Got for my 17 yr old grandson. He love it. Wish I would’ve gotten the large. Next yr. This going in our family tradition. Go big
I think excited is an understatement! Perfect gift for a rock lover.
For the price we are very disappointed! The bucket was barely half full And we also did not get our gift for buying it on the Black Friday sale. Not to mention how long it took to get here. Definitely a 👎
My daughter is over the moon at all the stones and gems she's dig out already.
This was purchased as a gift for my sister’s birthday. She absolutely loved searching for all of the treasures. She said “this was the best birthday gift she was ever given.”
This is just some of what we uncovered. This is our second big dig. Fun for all ages. My 70 year old mom to my 3 year old granddaughter. We have been making fairy gardens for all our family and friends. Everyone loves the rocks we put in them. Thanks so much!!
I am hooked! I have had the bucket for a week and I am still not done with going through the bucket. This thing is huge and packed!!
My kids had so much fun with the big dig bucket and they all got A LOT of goodies to pick from!
Great selection of goodies that kept a group of kids interested at my 12 year old's birthday. All the parents were commenting on the variety, and complimenting me on what a great idea this is!
Our 2 boys are loving their new dig bucket! This is just from their first dig and they barely got down a few inches in to the bucket. It has been such a fun experience with them!
My grandkids loved finding all of the treasures!
The Big Dig is one of my favorite buckets to get! The amount of stones and special items are definitely over the cost of the bucket and it can take weeks to dig everything out! My bucket was packed on a live and the girls did a great job with all the extras as promised. I can’t wait to get my next one!
This bucket has lasted weeks and my son still is not done sifting through the 5 gallon bucket!!! All of the stones we have found so far are beautiful and we are loving the fossils and shark teeth!!!
It’s was great. Spread it out over a week with 2 kids and a grandma. Some much fun!!
We had many days of entertainment with the Big Dig. This was our second purchase and we are so glad we did the big one!! We will be purchasing more in the future!
I loved the big dig bucket and I will be getting another one soon.
Bought this for a date night with my 16 year old daughter. We had an absolute blast!!! Took us a couple of hours on Friday night, a couple more on Saturday and we followed it up with a trip to local free geological museum today. It made a core memory for us and a bonding topic for us forever. Worth every penny!! The video is just the discovery from the second half of the bucket!!!
My kids had so much fun sifting, digging and identifying all the stones, gems & fossils. They LOVED this bucket! They already want to order another one! This was such a fun family activity and I’d definitely recommend to anyone looking for a special, unique & fun experience for you and your kiddos.
We had a lot of fun digging through our bucket and finding everything inside. There was way more than we expected. My wife has requested another bucket as her birthday present this year.
We loved how there was a surprise with every scoop. Every rock my kids found was "gold"
Can't wait for my son to open this on Christmas ! He's going to be so excited .
THIS WAS AMAZING. My daughter (4) and I sat outside for about 3 plus hours today digging through the sand to find it FANTASTIC and exciting goodies. Now we just wait for our tumbler to finish so we can start tumbling all of our raw stones!!!
What a delight to participate in this massive big dig. It was stellar really beyond fun. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes rocks and minerals and fossils and much more!
The Big Dig was so awesome! Had so much fun mining for my crystals and rocks!!
We love our bucket. We only have a small portion left to go through. We are losing our beloved Rottweiler so its been a life saver with the kids and the heartbreak. It was supposed to be part of my daughters bday present. I would just like to share that there was so much extra space, about 4-5 inches which caused both sifters to break. I was getting the geodes out and a piece of the broken sifter got stuck under my thumb nail and caused an infection so Ive lost a portion of my nail already. Thankfully it didnt happen to the kids. We have found really great and fun rocks. I plan to add a tumbler to their Christmas lists to continue the fun. Thank you for what yall do.
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We love this! It has so much plus I added some extra as I have two kiddos. We've been able to do a scoop or two each night and the kids love it! We got the 4th of July bucket. The only thing I would change is we haven't found any large "special" rocks like what was shown in the videos. The carved star was fun and I liked the size of the geodes compared to the gallon buckets. My six year old loves the shark teeth that were included.
I love finging all the cool rocks and fossels.. wish they had more special stones. Great value..
I will say, when added up retail wise the bucket is well worth the price in Crystal value. However my personal option is that it didn’t feel worth the money in the end. It was shipped internationally and as such had a heafty addition fee in shipping and duties but I went for it anyways thinking the fun with my best friend would be worth it. While finding the midden gems was exciting and did provide a few hours of fun we were completely unable to use it as intended. The sifters were useless, one came cracked, and the sand was so wet almost all the shark teeth’s roots had gone so soft the crumbled away when pulled from the sand. It was a major disappointment to find so many shark teeth and walk away with none in tact fully after held for a moment. The only other disappointment we found were the roughly dozen pieces of what as far as we or any identification apps could tell was just basic chert that I can quite literally walk across the road and find everywhere. There were a few awesome larger pieces, 4 I believe geodes one of which was Smokey when we cracked, tons of raw chunks, so many tumbles and all the confetti the proved impossible to get until the sand was stored in a room with a dehumidifier going for a few days. I wish I had of taken photos now looking back but we never did. Overall it was a fun experience but I was disappointed by a few things and it unfortunately isn’t something we’d do again.
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