NatGeo Pleybox delivers a box filled with exciting activities that bring exploration to your home and lets kids experience amazing ecosystems through exciting missions! For only $19.99 per month, you’ll get fun activities and accessories that inspire kids to explore and discover wildlife and nature.
This month’s mission is AMAZON.
The box is designed like a briefcase. It’s sealed with a sticker. Unfortunately, our kids were SO excited they ripped it right off before we could take a picture!
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Everything in this box!
Animal Cards & Mission Amazon Stickers. NatGeo has included these colorful animal cards as well as stickers of animals that can be found in the Amazon. The cards contain details about the animals which are fun trivia for my kids.
Mission Amazon Activity Booklet. We also got an activity booklet in this box featuring the Amazon Rainforest.
At the back of the booklet is the website which you and your kids can go to for you to be able to do the missions stated in the booklet. I love the idea of interaction that NatGeo is promoting in their subscription boxes as my kids can have more fun with it.
Amazon Scarlet Macaws T-Shirt. It’s a red t-shirt featuring Amazon’s beautiful Scarlet Macaws. What I love about this shirt is that it’s not just a simple graphic tee, but NatGeo added fun trivia to it.
The details are impressive. It’s like you are seeing the Scarlet Macaws in real life! NatGeo included details on the anatomy of the bird from its powerful beak, long wings, and its strong grip on its toes as well as its bright feathers. It’s a cool shirt!
Official Geocache. Geocaching is an activity where you can hunt and find a hidden object using GPS coordinates. This one’s an official NatGeo geocache piece which you can hide anywhere, like a treasure!
It looks like a simple tin can. You can fill it with small trinkets, toys, or any other item you’d like others to get. It’s just like modern treasure hunting and it made the kids really excited!
More information about geocaching is provided in the pamphlet.
My kids thought it a good idea to include stickers in their Geocache. We’ll just have to find a nice place where they want their treasure to be found and enter the info on the site!
We also got an instruction on how to make an Origami Parrot. I think this is also a good test to see how well kids can follow instructions. I guess I’ll be joining them too in making my own parrot!
NatGeo was kind enough to provide us with the materials for origami. We got a pack full of papers for our weekend origami making activity.
The origami paper came in different colors too!
Here’s our first parrot origami! The instructions are pretty easy to follow and the kids had fun with this too.
For first time subscribers, you can create an account for your child at NatGeo’s site. You can log in using the “Grown-up” account before logging your child in. This way, you will be able to monitor their progress. There is also a page for this month’s mission checklist which you and your child can check as you progress through the game.
Another spread in the booklet contains a comic strip for Junior Explorers. This makes a fascinating read! There is also a coloring activity where your kid also has to find all the hidden animals in the picture. This will keep my kids busy!
It’s nice that the booklet tells you when to log in to your account so your child will know what the next mission will be.
We went to www.pley.com/national-geographic and logged in to our account to access the Mission Center.
You will see the world map and a flag indicating where you are in your current mission. It’s cool, isn’t it?
This time, our mission was to spot a jaguar in the Amazon.
We need to choose our gear to be ready for this mission! I love the fact that NatGeo made everything interactive. This does help pique my kids’ curiosity and they are quite eager to follow the tasks.
They presented various facts about the Amazon, which I think is helpful in teaching kids more about different places in the world. I don’t think they will be forgetting this any time soon.
We also got to interact with the majestic jaguar of the Amazon and test how it attracts prey in the water.
Another activity that was featured on the website is getting acquainted with the different animals in the jungle. With every photo that you see, you need to pick out which animal it was. This reinforces learning for kids from the photo to the text.
Kia and Kyle follow you as you progress with the mission and they do give helpful hints as well. Kyle was telling us to be quiet as we have spotted the jaguar!
Another part of the booklet explains how to play the animal cards that were included in this month’s box. You can pit your kids against one another in a game where they need to guess what animal is written on the card. The other page is dedicated to crossword puzzles. It’s a great game to test their knowledge about the animals that are present in the Amazon.
Kia and Kyle have left a message for us to find. They also added some scrambled words for us to figure out.
Here’s my little one figuring out the scrambled letters. He seems to be doing fine on his own.
This is NatGeo’s Certificate of Achievement which your child can earn when they’re all done.
NatGeo Kids Pleybox is a great subscription for kids who are old enough to do some missions without leaving the house – except this time they got us outdoors too. I love that this subscription makes use of technology as well as traditional methods in providing kids with a monthly source of fun learning and adventure. This is a great tool to use for kids who are starting to become inquisitive about their surroundings and because there are parts where you will be using the internet, the interactive playing field makes this subscription that more interesting!
What do you think of this month’s box?
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