The kids are crazy for Kiwi Crate — so much so that we have to hide the boxes so they don’t get into them before we can photograph the contents and set up our crafting area. 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 June Kiwi Crate included two crafts exploring two and three dimensional shapes. Kiwi Crate is very good about, depending on your perspective, either making the kids build their toys, or providing crafts that are fun to play with.
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.
We did the cut-out experiment in the back and compared 3-D shape volume! Math is always more fun with marshmallows.
My Tangram Game: the first craft / game was a tangram kit — a game where you arrange the provided shapes into the prompted picture. Usually with these puzzles, there is only one correct arrangement. Brandy commented that the puzzles where really difficult, but we then noticed that the flip side of each card has additional lines drawn in to show exactly which pieces fit where in the picture. So each picture essentially has an easy and a hard challenge version.
The directions for making the puzzle pieces. The crate came with both red and blue dye to accommodate children with very set color preferences — this was perfect for our pink and blue obsessed children.
The first step was coloring shapes on the slabs with white crayon. The wax is supposed to keep the dye from sticking where you colored, but we only had marginal success (you have to press hard and color very thoroughly for the best result).
The provided jar with the blue dye.
Anyone else hear Andre 3000 in the background?
The dye clung better to some parts of the wood than it did others, creating a cool transitioned look on the blue pieces. The spots where the white crayon lessened the absorption of dye became more apparent as the blocks dried.
Making a house.
What did he say?
My Bubble Shapes: the second activity was making cool bubble wands.
The kids thread the “straw” pieces onto pipe cleaners while bending the apparatus into geometric shapes like pyramids and cubes.
The instructions look complicated, but are pretty straight-forward after a careful reading. Still, they were considerably more complex than the usual Kiwi Crate instructions.
The kids went crazy with these things. Grandpa facetiously pondered why no bubbles were shaped like cubes.
The crate provided lots of bubble mix.
Our kids love Kiwi Crate because it is the best box in the Kiwi family for them both to do (they are four and six). The activities and instructions are generally very simple, but the kit always includes some factoids and extension activities that keep our older child interested.
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 our 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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