April’s Kiwi Crate theme was the Science of Color! This was a truly fantastic box. Kiwi Crate is a kids’ craft and activity subscription and it comes with everything you need to create 2 excellent crafts. This box is geared for ages 3-7. Use coupon code MS30 to save 30% on your first box of Kiwi Crate (or KiwiCo family subscriptions Tinker Crate, Koala Crate, and Doodle Crate ).
The April Kiwi Crate included two crafts: a chromatography experiment and spin art!
The back of the main card. My son always carefully selects the right color for Steve the Kiwi. Each box includes a completion sticker to proudly display on their Adventures poster.
Kiwi Crate includes all the supplies you need for two main crafts, plus explore! magazine.
Each issue of explore! magazine features a short comic, experiments and puzzles or picture or word find type games. My son likes to complete the explore! activities cover-to-cover before proceeding to the crafts. Our daughter sneaks the book out first and reads the entire thing.
It has additional information and crafts and activities you can complete with household supplies to keep the fun going.
My kids especially love the cut out project in the back. This month was a pop-up rainbow!
my color separation lab: The crate comes with everything you need to explore chromatography and colors.
She completed this activity all by herself and really enjoyed the results!
What this box doesn’t really do is delve too deeply into the science, but that’s ok – usually the exploration of the idea is enough at this age (3-8). We talked a little about why the colors ended at different spots on the paper.
The crate came with materials to make a garland out of your papers. We ended up reusing this for a plant experiment and after it’s done will use it to hang the spin art!
my spin art: Everyone was excited about this one and we all ended up doing at least one piece! Who doesn’t love spin art?!
You can see the instructions (for all the activities) are very visual and step by step. They’re helpful for pre-readers and emerging readers, and also parents who are juggling multiple kids!
You reuse the box for this project. Love those little hands.
Tada! The only criticism I had is that the instructions said to put the paint in the cups and use the included eye dropper. Not to dilute them, that’s just how you apply them. We saw little sense in that and just dripped the paint from the tubes.
After drying these were absolutely gorgeous. There was plenty of paint leftover for more crafting fun, too.
explore more color experiments: Bonus activity! How delightful! We got two extra activities including the supplies.
The first one was an exploration on color mixing – there was a red, yellow, and blue dye tab and you let the paper towels transfer the color between bowls.
The second was seeing how color drops disperse in warm and cold water. She correctly surmised that the cold cup had the least activity!
April was a fantastic Kiwi Crate – one of the best ones ever. It kept them busy for hours. You can spread these activities out of course, but they get so excited by Kiwi Crate we can’t help to do them all at once!
You can save 30% on your first Kiwi Crate with coupon code MS30! You can use this code on all the other KiwiCo family subscriptions too – Tinker Crate, Koala Crate, and Doodle Crate.
Visit Kiwi Crate to subscribe or to find out more about this fantastic kids’ craft subscription box! Check out all my Kiwi Crate Reviews to see more.
The Description: Arts, crafts, and science activities subscription for kids ages 3-7. Get a monthly subscription filled with all the materials and inspiration that will let your child explore, imagine, and create, all centered around a fun monthly theme!
The Price: $19.95 per month, down to $16.95 per month on a year long subscription
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Oh these look fun. A couple years ago I won a year of kiwi in a contest and while we did some I had so many left. N just wasn’t into it yet well that all changed this track out. He and the girls next door did box after box. LOL I’m down to only like 4 left but they had a blast and I like that it was more then just wanting to play on the Ipad and that they had something to do when we had all the rainy days. When we use them all up I may need to get some more for them for next time. 🙂