Customer Reviews

Detective Tool Kit (Action Books)

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I purchased this to use with the forensic theme I use with gifted students I work with. It contains some excellent tools. The children especially enjoyed using the wide selection of facial attributes to put together composites of our "suspects" as well as various members of our school. Fingerprinting and chromatography were also informative and enjoyable activities. This is an excellent kit for schools, clubs, as well as for individual children at home. I admit I was skeptical about purchasing this one online but I am very happy that I did so.

My daughter is 12 and loved this kit. She liked the recreation of the criminal's face-it's like being a real CSI agent! She started investigating right away. This kit comes complete with fingerprint kits to magnifying glass to clue bags. I thought it was well made and worth the money.

Lots of fun for our nine year old. She plays with it alone and with a freind. Always looking for a crime to solve. Promotes creativity. Some of the tools (magnifying glass) we thought were a little "cheap" but it never bothered her. Face pictures very realistic and good quality.

I purchased this kit because it was relatively inexpensive when compared to other offerings of its kind. I homeschool my 13 year old, and she was very interested in learning about police work last summer - she was 12 then. We had scheduled a day trip to the local science museum where there was a "CSI" exhibit and I thought this would be a fun way to prepare for what we would see there - we had already read a couple of books on crime scenes and my daughter was excited to try out some of the skills she had heard about.

This kit was overall adequate, but it wasn't used as much as I had anticipated. It doesn't have much replay value because the items included are of such low quality. The fingerprint ink & cards are terribly messy. The process of lifting prints off of objects within the house never worked at all - the dusting powder just wouldn't do the job it is intended to do. All it made was a huge mess. The face details were the highlight of the kit and we had fun cutting photos out of magazines and then trying to create the face. Of course, that is somewhat limited too - not every single facial detail is included here (not that someone should expect it in a small kit like this).

I had high hopes for this kit, but it has been 6 months and my daughter hasn't touched it since the police science unit was complete, though she still remains interested in the field. I believe that if the materials actually worked as described she would be using it.

My daughter still has it in her closet from last Christmas unused. Too messy and hard to use....she is 10.