Green Kid Crafts is a subscription box that sends 5-8 themed projects made with eco-friendly materials to your home every month. The boxes contain hands-on explorations in science, math, technology, engineering and art that are intended to challenge children from 3-10 years of age.
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Green Kid Crafts offers two age ranges – the Junior Discovery Box (ages 2-4) or the Discovery Box (ages 5-10+). This is a review of the Discovery box! Green Kid Crafts also offers a Sibling Discovery Box (ages 2-10+).
The box itself is in green, with cute doodles on it. All the items are packed neatly inside.
Everything in my box!
Each month you’ll get a special badge that you can collect and stick on this badge sheet.
This month, it’s the Flight Expert badge!
This box’s theme is SOARING INTO FLIGHT.
The booklet provides essential information about the subscription and a variety of projects that you can work on.
The booklet is well-detailed and very informative.
It provides us with complete instructions and details for each and every project.
There’s a total of 4 projects for this activity box! Aside from the projects, the booklet also comes with a lot of cool on-page activities for your kids to enjoy, like puzzles and mazes.
My son immediately grabbed his pencil and started finding the hidden objects!
Another activity that my kids love is the build-a-story where they will fill the blanks to complete the story, and for this month, it’s all about the silly things that fly!
The back of the booklet encourages us to share our projects on social media, and get a chance to be featured on the next Green Kid Crafts booklet.
Each project comes in separate plastic containers to avoid mixing of items.
Project #1 Homemade Hovercraft. For our first project which is the Homemade Hovercraft, they provided a CD, poster tack, bottle cap, and balloon!
We started the project by attaching the poster tack at the bottom of the bottle cap, leaving the hole in the middle open. We then pressed the cap over the hole in the center of the CD and pushed it thoroughly!
For the next step, we fitted the balloon over the top of the bottle cap and inflated it by blowing through the bottom side of the CD.
Once the balloon is well-inflated, we placed the hovercraft on the table top.
For the last step, we slowly let go of the balloon and the hovercraft glided on the table!
Project #2: Things That Fly. Wooden plane, crayons, glider, dragonfly spinner, and tape measure are all the items we used for the second project.
This project tasked us to build and decorate our own wooden plane, and then test and compare how each one of them flies.
We started off with the dragonfly spinner. To get it fly, hold the stem between your hands, rub them together, and release!
As you can see, the spinner features an angled propeller, which is the reason why it flies. It’s a simple yet amazing design!
The next plane, which looks just a real airplane, is lightweight and colorful!
The wooden plane is a little heavier and bigger than the blue plane. It also has larger wings and tails.
After we built and decorated the planes, my sons grabbed their choice of planes and released them by throwing them in the air!
When the planes landed, we used the tape measure to compare the flight distance of the planes. As expected the wooden plane traveled longer!
Project #3 Flight Challenge. For the third activity, we used paper airplane templates, paper clips, binder clips, and measuring tape.
My kids started the project by folding the paper planes according to the instructions on the back of the templates.
Once done folding, they clipped the paper planes using the binder clips to adjust the plane’s center of balance.
You can also add more paper clips on some hard to reach parts of the planes.
Like the second project, we also tested our planes to see which of them traveled longer!
Project #4 Bernoulli’s Principle. For our final project which is Bernoulli’s Principle, we used the ping-pong ball, tape, straw, and thread.
This principle includes three different experiments, and for the first trial, we used a straw and a ping-pong ball.
My son bent the straw in an “L” shape, and carefully placed the ball on the other end of the straw. Then, he blew the straw and made sure to provide a constant airflow. He maintained it for the ping pong ball to levitate!
We used the hairdryer and ping pong ball for our second experiment!
My son switched the hairdryer to cool, switched it on, and pointed it at the ceiling. Then, he carefully put the ping pong ball in the stream of air.
He held the hairdryer steady and we watched as the ball floated in the stream of air. He also adjusted the strength of the hairdryer and we all saw the effect on the floating ball. It’s like magic, but it’s really backed by science!
For the third experiment, we used the ping pong ball, tape, thread, and faucet.
We taped the thread to the ping pong ball, turned on the faucet, and dangled the ball in the running water. This made the ping pong ball move! as well
Here are all the projects we made using the materials provided in this crate. My kids really enjoyed working on them so much!
The activities from Green Kid Crafts are always fun, exciting, and engaging! This month, the activities are all about flight or flying and they didn’t disappoint. My kids loved setting up the planes and releasing them to see which can go the farthest. This is a great subscription that teaches science concepts while enhancing the kids’ creative skills and problem-solving skills. This box is surely a hit! If you’re also looking for activities to keep your kids entertained, this subscription is definitely worth a try!
Has your family tried Green Kid Crafts?
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