Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know of a local mobile gem mining operation for a birthday party? I think Tim’s Gems closed.
Anonymous wrote:Had him for a birthday party. All the kids loved it!! Highly recommend. It was for DS 7th birthday.
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know of a local mobile gem mining operation for a birthday party? I think Tim’s Gems closed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do you think 9 year olds are too old for this? Also, is the trailer (?) heated? I'm considering this but it would be in December.
I think so. Does your child like gemstones? I got my DS one of those National Geographic dig kits as a gift once and he really loved it and thought all of the different rocks were so cool. At the Tim's Gems party, I was surprised that he got such nice gems including a 4x2ish amethyst and other decent sized stones. I forgot to mention that he boxes up each kid's gems in a nice gold paper box and puts their name on it and each kid also gets an arrowhead necklace and a sheet of paper identifying all of the stones. It really was a hit.
It should have heat as I was surprised that it had air conditioning. I would ask to be safe.
Anonymous wrote:Do you think 9 year olds are too old for this? Also, is the trailer (?) heated? I'm considering this but it would be in December.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just want to report back that everyone loved the party and Tim was wonderful. It was also a great price at $250 for 10 kids. Each kid got 2 buckets to mine full of nice sized gems and birthday kid got to break open a geode.
http://www.timsgems.net/
How long was the gem mining part? I have an upcoming party with him and am not sure if the mining takes 10 minutes or like 45.
He estimated 45 minutes to an hour and it took about an hour including watching my DS break the geode - he involved the other kids by counting how many strikes of the hammer it would take. These were 8 year olds mostly.