Little Thinker Box by Kidable Adventures is a preschool subscription box for ages 3-6. The Little Thinker Box includes four components: Read, Create, Explore, and Learn. The Learn component is divided into three different levels: Head Start, Pre-K, and Kindergarten. Choose the level that’s right for your child!
The April theme was Around the World. Awesome!
The box is always packed in a really neat manner – the tissue makes for a nice presentation, and the lesson segments are explained well. The attached outline makes it easy to organize the big picture of what you’ll cover each month: reading, creating, exploring and learning.
By breaking up the theme into four components, Little Thinker Box makes its lessons really accessible and down-to-earth. You could easily do a component per week, or you could work through all of the activities on a rainy weekend.
All the actual instructions plus the parental guidance is included, along with all the supplies! The Read, Create, Explore, and Learn format was designed based on customer and expert feedback. I like the bit of structure it lends to the boxes – the numerous activities are more manageable conceptualized in smaller bites.
Each learning component arrived in a separate bag. I really liked this! It made it really easy to pick and choose what we were going to do next from among the many activities included in the box.
Nabisco Mini Nilla Wafers ($0.58): A kid-friendly snack is always fun. These are just like the originals, just a wee bit smaller.
I Can Read! The Berenstein Bears Around The World by Mike Berenstain ($3.78): The Read component has been simplified a bit, and now it basically consists of a fun book to read. This book quickly became a bedtime favorite for us.
The plot is fairly simple — Doctor Bear takes the family around the globe in his Anywhere-Anyplace Machine.
The voyage explores natural history and human culture around the globe.
The story moves very quickly from place to place, leaving little time to get bored.
The Learning component includes several versions of a game incorporating geography, animals from around the world, and other facts.
Landing on a letter along the Learning Course means answering the corresponding question in the Task Guide. The Task Guide has three difficulty levels, from headstart to kindergarten. While the game is Around the World themed, the Task Guide also quizzes on general knowledge, like shapes, colors, letters, and numbers.
The Explore segment comprises activities and toys to drive home the lessons and encourage creative play.
This Explore kit contained an inflatable globe, a passport with visa stickers, and a sticker set for placing animals on the continent they inhabit.
I helped my son figure out where all the animals belonged. He loved naming them and playing with globe.
The Create portion of the box is where you find all the crafting activities.
The crafts for this theme involved creating or using some artifacts reflective of a representative culture from each continent. Along with crafting items, we received some chopsticks for Asia and a boomerang for Australia!
Antarctica doesn’t have any permanent human settlements, so we had a penguin scene to put together instead.
We painted an African mask. The paint was also used to create Mexican bark painting for our North American craft.
The kit included paint and a brush, plus the mask itself. I think he did a fantastic job!
We also made a headdress for South America.
I thought the inverted visor was a really inspired choice for this craft, and it worked really well.
Our European craft was embellishing a paper crown with sparkling dots.
All hail the King!
This craft took a long time, but it turned out really cool.
Little Thinker is a superb box for crafting with young kids. There is so much to do in every box! You get a book to read, some educational games, a simple toy or two, and tons of simple, mildly structured crafts. The number of separate projects means you can always find something fun that fits your child’s taste or your messiness tolerance. If you do everything in the box, you have enough activities for hours and hours of involved and imaginative fun.
Did you enjoy this month’s activity as much as we did? Let us know in the comments!
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