Green Kid Crafts is a monthly arts and crafts subscription for kids. Each themed box includes 4-6 projects that involve Science, Technology, Education, Art, and Math (STEAM) plus a 12-page magazine that contains instructions and explanations. Materials are green and eco-friendly! They currently have 3 subscription types available:
- Junior Discovery Box Subscription for ages 2-4 ($24.95 a month)
- Discovery Box Subscription for ages 5-10+ ($24.95 a month)
- Sibling Box Subscription for ages 2-10+ with two sets of each project kit ($44.95 a month)
This is a review of the Discovery box with the Deluxe subscription add-on. The Deluxe subscription includes a book add-on to your main box and it will be related to each month’s Discovery box theme. It costs an extra $9.95/month.
DEAL: Save 50% on your first box! Use coupon code HELLOSUB50.
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 a badge sheet. This month, it’s the Alternative Energy Expert badge!
This box’s theme is SWEET SCIENCE.
The booklet provides essential information about the subscription and a variety of projects that you can work on. Here’s a brief article introducing the science behind sweets!
The booklet is as informative and as detailed as always!
It provides us with complete instructions and details for each and every project.
There’s a total of 6 projects for this month’s activity box!
They even suggest books for supplemental reading: The Science Chef by Joan D’ Amico and Candy Experiments by Loralee Leavitt.
Aside from the projects, the booklet also comes with a lot of cool on-page activities for your kids to enjoy!
It’s Halloween, I’m Turning Green! by Dan Gutman ($5.18)
With more than 12 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
It’s Halloween, and you know what that means! Candy! Costumes! More candy! What would happen if a kid ate a million hundred pounds of chocolate in one night? One thing’s for sure—when the kids from Ella Mentry School go trick-or-treating, it will be a Halloween to remember.
Join A.J. and the gang from My Weird School in this special series of after-school, holiday-themed chapter books featuring hilarious stories and thirty-two pages of games, puzzles, and more. This is one weird Halloween special you won’t want to miss!
According to the back of the booklet, included inside are 32 pages of bonus content that features Professor A.J.’s Halloween facts, puzzles, trivia, games, and more!
It’s a Halloween-themed booklet that is a part of the “My Weird School Special series,” which features the weirdest Halloween stories in the history of the world!
It’s a black and white booklet with a large readable font, an ideal read for kids 6-10 years old.
Each project comes in separate plastic containers to avoid mixing of items for each project.
According to the label, this pack is for the first and second project: Floating Letters and Gummy Bear Osmosis.
Project #1: Floating Letters Solubility Experiment. For the first project, we used a Petri dish, M&M’s, and gobstoppers.
My kids picked 4 pieces of M&M’s in different colors and placed them on the bottom part of the Petri dish with the letter “m” facing up. They were spread out with equal distance from each other.
Next, my son carefully poured in some water on the Petri dish until the candies were completely covered.
They observed how the color of the candies spread on the water as time passed by.
The colors on the water become more vivid as time passes.
Check out the letter “M” in the middle of each candy! They did not dissolve after being submerged in water!
The letter “M” on the candies are made from vegetable dye, which is an edible solution but insoluble in water. We also observed that the colors from the candies mix!
We also did the same procedure with the Gobstopper candies.
The darkest candy was the last one to dissolve its color.
The colors slowly dissolved and on this photo, we can already see that the colors don’t mix, unlike the one with M&Ms.
No matter how much time passed, the colors stayed that way! It’s awesome!
Project #2: Gummy Bear Osmosis. The second project is Gummy Bear Osmosis and for this one, the crate provided gummy bears and salt.
My kids prepared two small bowls and filled them with the same amount of water. Then, they put a packet of salt on one bowl and stirred it until dissolved.
They also placed 1 gummy bear for each bowl and left them soaked for a few hours.
The bowl with pure water made the gummy bear bigger because the bear absorbed the water. Meanwhile, the bear in the bowl with salt and water did not absorb as much water because of osmosis!
Project #3: Crystal Creation. For the third project, the box provided a stick, wax paper, and string. From home, we used scissors, a jar, sugar, and water.
My kids started the project by tying the string in the middle of the stick. Then, they prepared a jar filled with 1/2 cup of sugar and 8 tsp of water. We microwaved the solution in the jar afterward (this step needs adult supervision), for 2 minutes.
After microwaving, we stirred the mixture again and then lowered the string into the hot solution and let it soak. After a few minutes, we removed the string on the solution and laid the stick and soaked string on the wax paper so the string is perpendicular to the stick. We let it cool and then dry completely.
We soaked the string in the solution for 1 week! Here’s how the project looks once done! Crystals started to form because of the interaction of a supersaturated solution and a “seed” atom or molecule.
A supersaturated solution is one that is forced to hold more atoms than it normally would. Crystals start to form when a supersaturated solution encounters a “seed” atom or molecule, causing other atoms to come out of the solution and attach to the seed. In this case, the seed molecules were the sucrose molecules we dried onto the stick. Of course, a taste test will also have to be part of your analysis.
This pack includes items for the Crystal Creation, Pixy Stix Art, and Fizzy Fun projects.
Project #4: Fizzy Fun. For the fourth project, they sent us pop rocks, balloons, and test tubes. We also used soda and funnel from home!
First, my kids put half of the pop rocks on the two balloons and filled the test tube with soda. Then, they connected the balloon on the test tube by placing the opening of the balloon over the mouth of the test tube.
Once ready, they lifted the balloon up and dumped the pop rocks into the soda!
See how the balloon inflates after the pop rocks are mixed with the soda! So amazing!
We made another experiment, and this time we used water instead of soda. The result features a little difference since the balloon didn’t inflate as much as when we used the soda.
Project 5: Pixy Stix Process Art. For the next project, the crate included Pixy Stix, watercolor paper, and spray bottle.
In this activity, my kids sprinkled the colorful pixy stix powder on top of the watercolor paper. It’s better if the powder is spread all over the paper!
Then, they filled the bottle with water and then sprayed it on the sanded watercolor paper.
After spraying water, the color spread as the sugar melted on top of the paper.
Here’s the result of our project, it’s like a textured painting! My kids definitely enjoyed process art!
Process Art is art that is choice-driven, always unique and the focus lies in the creation of the work, not the outcome.
Project 6: Pixy Stix Sand Art. For our final project, we used the leftover Pixy Stix. They also included a corked bottle.
This is definitely the simplest and easiest project we had for this month.
We simply poured the powder inside the bottle until it was full and then locked it.
Green Kid Crafts is truly a great activity subscription box for kids. Just like in the past boxes, we’re impressed with their well-designed projects that tackle science concepts in a kid-friendly way! This month’s theme is full of sweetness, as it involves a variety of sweets such as candies, gummies, sugar, and even soda. My kids enjoyed everything, including the on-page activities and the book which was included as a Deluxe add-on. Overall, this subscription proves that learning about science doesn’t have to be complicated! Through age-appropriate crafts and projects, my kids learn and have fun at the same time, and that makes me happy as well!
Has your family tried Green Kid Crafts?
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