Little Global Citizens is a monthly subscription designed by a team of experienced travelers and educators for kids ages 3-7. Each month, you and your kids will get a curated box that includes items like child and adult guide to a new country, a carefully sourced book, toy or collectible, 2-4 hands-on crafts (supplies included), 2-4 cultural activities including family games and musical activities (supplies included), and dinner party theme. The box costs $38.95, and a sibling add-on of $10.95 per month. Little Global Citizens donates a percentage of all profits to Room to Read, in supporting education equality and literacy for developing countries.
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Every box is entirely unique to keep little minds stimulated.
It also transports your child to a new country with each box.
The box came with an information card.
This card explains what the subscription is all about and also introduces us to the members of their team.
With all that’s happening nowadays, Akeelah and Tim are encouraging us to join the Little Global Citizens Facebook group as they will share free activities to go along with each of their activity boxes.
Every box comes with a huge booklet about the featured country. This month’s featured country is THAILAND!
They encourage us to tag them in unboxing photos on social media for a chance to win a free gift in the next box!
Sawadee Ka means hello in Thai! On the first few pages is a list of what’s inside the booklet. They also introduced us to Kannika, a 6-year-old girl who lives in the biggest city in northern Thailand, which is Chiang Mai.
The booklet also features Lotus Flower, an important symbol in Thai culture which means purity of spirit. There are also instructions on how to craft our own Clay Lotus Flower. Another interesting feature is about the Traditional Games in Thailand like Pao Nang Yang, or the rubber band game, and E-sok, which uses a piece of paper, some tape, and tamarind seeds!
It also gave us a sneak peek of one of their festivals which is Songkran, or the New Year celebration in the Land of Smiles!
The masked images that you usually see in some important places in Thailand, like temples and museums, are called Yaksha Guardian. Another important and iconic symbol or animal in Thailand is the elephant. The booklet included instructions on how to make a Thai elephant diorama, as well as a Yaksha Guardian mask.
The Thai flag is called Triaranga or Triarong which means tricolor. The color red stands for the land and its people, while the blue stands for the monarchy, and the white stands for Buddhism, which is the country’s main religion.
Everything in the box!
Toy is from Thailand by Whitney Badgett ($9.99)
Join Toy, a young boy from Thailand, as he takes you on an exciting cultural tour of his country. From riding in tuk-tuks to eating fried bugs for snacks, it’s a journey you won’t forget. Ages 4 – 12.
The book is about Toy, a young boy from Thailand, and he will accompany us in a cultural journey in his beautiful country!
The illustrations show us the different important landmarks and places in Thailand. The book started by introducing us to Ittipon, or the young boy named Toy. He lives in a teakwood house, just like the one shown in the book. Each house also has a Spirit House, which is a small model of a home or temple, and the spirits are believed to live in these houses and protect the home. The Thai people also offer food, water, and flowers to these houses daily.
One of the modes of transportation around the country is Tuk-Tuk, a colorful, three-wheeled motorized taxi.
My kids are having fun learning about Thailand!
Through this book, my kids also learned about the culture, practices, and even about the food that we can eat in Thailand, like exotic fruits!
We also learned about how they greet each other and show respect. The wai is the traditional Thai greeting performed by placing the palms of your hands together in front of your face.
Crafts and Activities
This month, we’re making a lotus flower craft and playing the Pao Nang Yang rubber band game!
Clay Lotus Flower. For the clay lotus flower, the box provided us 2 packs of colored model magic clay and a tealight. We also used a bowl as a mold for our flower.
My kids flattened out the clay and cut triangles from them.
Then, they overlapped the triangles in a bowl to form a lotus flower.
They also alternated the blue and red triangle clay pieces. Then, they created a circle to cover the hole at the center of the flower.
We let the clay dry for 1-2 days, and put the tea light on the center while using the rest of the clay to decorate it as well.
Here’s our beautiful and colorful clay lotus flower! We did the violet-colored clay by mixing the excess blue and red clays!
This would look good as a table centerpiece! The colors are vivid and the tealight is cute!
Rubber Band Game. The next thing we tried is the rubber band game, and for this game, we got different colored bands!
The objective of the game is to get the player’s rubber band on top of the other players’ bands by blowing them.
My kids tried the game, each having a rubber band that they will blow. It took some blows before a band finally got on top of everything else!
The Elephant Diorama. For the next craft, my kids made a cute elephant diorama using Wikki Stix. The box also provided the temple background and elephant templates.
The kids used different Wikki Stix colors on each of their elephants.
The Wikki Stix are flexible so they easily form into whichever shape we want!
My kids easily followed the elephant templates’ shape by twisting and curling the stix.
Here are my kids’ colorful elephants made from Wikki Stix!
Of course, we used the box and the included background to complete the diorama!
Target Practice Water Game. We also pretended to celebrate the Songkran festival using this provided water gun. Water is an important symbol in this celebration as it washes away the past year and purifies the new year!
My kids had a fun water fight, just like what the Thais do during Songkran festival!
Garuda Coloring Page. Garuda is a legendary bird-like creature, and it’s another common sighting in some tourist spots in Thailand. Here, we have full coloring page that features Garuda.
You can use whatever coloring tool you like on this image. My kids used some colorful markers!
Here’s Garuda with some added colors to it!
Yaksha Guardian Mask. Like Garuda, the Yaksha Guardian is another common symbol or figure in Thailand. In this activity, my kids made their own mask based on it! The box provided the mask and all they needed to do was to cut it out and attach a stick to it.
My kids also colored the Yaksha mask before cutting it out.
They used a mix of crayons and colorful markers in adding cool hues on both images.
Here’s the finished Yaksha Guardian Mask, and it looks great!
The Yaksha guardians are guardian warriors who keep away evil spirits.
E-Sok. We tried another Thai game, and it’s called E-sok! For this game, we used paper, tape, and some popcorn!
The objective of the game is to pick the most number of tamarind seeds using the paper cone made from the piece of paper that is secured by tape.
Here are all our finished crafts! My kids had fun in learning about Thailand!
Little Global Citizens is a good activity box that introduces kids to different countries in the world without having to leave home. They also give us information about cultures, traditions, practices, and most of all, the featured country’s lovely people! This month is so much fun as we journey to the Land of Smiles, Thailand! My kids enjoyed reading the booklet and doing all the activities. It’s a good thing that this box provided complete materials so we were able to start right away. After this great journey to a Southeast Asian country, we are already excited about our next trip courtesy of the next box!
What do you think of the Little Global Citizens box?
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