These days, the sun is already beginning to set when I get my daughter off the school bus. After-school time is more often becoming inside time as we approach the beginning of winter. While I consider our house a fairly "crafty" one, with the standards – coloring, clay, painting - it tends to get old pretty fast. One afternoon last week, salvation arrived - Green Kid Crafts was delivered!
Packed with earth-friendly projects, Green Kid Crafts’ monthly Discovery Box provides everything you and your kids need to explore and create. This month's Discovery Box themed "Food Adventures," featured four comprehensive activities: make a fishing game, plant an indoor organic basil garden, craft a tile coaster, and create a sprout garden. Each project came wrapped in a plant-based biodegradable bag. We even found a bonus bag of Annie's Homegrown Cheddar Bunnies tucked in there too. This felt like fun already! The question was: which activity to do first?
Although I’m a huge foodie with a passion for locally grown produce, my kid went right for the fishing game. First she traced and cut out fish made from recycled colored felt. Then we tied a "line" onto an eco-pencil and attached the other end to a washer. We stuck a couple of small rounds of velcro onto the washer and she was "fishing for our dinner" the entire time I prepared our actual meal. So cute! The flip side of the game contained a "Gratitude Tree.” My daughter wrote something she was grateful for onto nine pre-drawn leaves and then cut them out. We drew a tree on a separate piece of paper and she glued the leaves onto the tree. This was a wonderful activity leading up to Thanksgiving - it provided her with a dedicated time and a visual aid to reflect on what she really is thankful for. I was thankful that Green Kid Crafts turned the complexity of gratitude into a fun kid-friendly project.
The tile coaster came next. She had a blast gluing and arranging multi-colored ceramic tiles into a mosaic tile-coaster, which she quickly declared was a holiday gift for her grandma. That's one thing off my list! Next, we set up the sprout garden and planted the sweet organic basil in the pot. When we returned from Thanksgiving weekend away, we found both had already begun to pop out of the ground and sprout! It will be fun to continue to watch them progress and then taste the results!
As a family who loves to cook and garden, we were pleased to find the Discovery Box also included kid-friendly recipes, fun resources for healthy eating, and suggested reading materials like Mollie Katzen's classic cookbook for kids, Pretend Soup. Also included in this month's box were terrific coupons for healthy products from earth-conscious companies like Plum Kids and Stoneyfield Farm. I'm not usually too much of a coupon-clipper, but these deals were deep and sent me straight to my local store to use them.
For such a small box, Green Kid Crafts really delivered big; the activities, the fun, and the quality time, all in an environmentally conscious way. We can't wait to find out what next month's Discovery Box will bring to the table!
Green Kid Crafts is a great gift this holiday season that will keep on giving each month! Macaroni Kid readers get an extra 10% using code MACKID at check-out!
*Green Kid Crafts is a Macaroni Kid sponsor. All opinions in this review are honest and straight from Megan.
