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This month’s Kiwi Crate theme was “Antarctica Adventure” and included two projects “my penguin bowling” and “my aurora postcards” and a penguin ice mold for conducting ice experiments. I am hoping this theme rubs off a little on the weather here because I wouldn’t mind some antarctic snow for the holidays!

We weren’t doing anything overly fun when the crate arrived yesterday, so we decided to open it right up and start crafting.

Project #1:

The first December Kiwi Crate project was  “my penguin bowling” which I knew L was going to love.  It included everything you need for a game of penguin bowling.  Dress and decorate your penguin pals, then bowl them over.  This project was low on the messiness scale and involves creating, moving – gross and moving – fun.

We got right to work decorating our penguins and L did a great job if I do say so myself.  He gets so serious when he is working on something like this.

We spilt them up, so he got to decorate 3 and so did I.  Of course, he got to use all the 99.9% of the stickers on his, but whatever ;).

I’d include pictures of the actual bowling, but they are all very blurry as bowling appears to be a very fast paced sport in this house.  I am very happy that the bowling ball included was actually just a whiffle ball since it, umm, hit a few windows and walls while we were bowling ;).  Also, I am very happy that WB didn’t get bopped in the head during all the fun ;).  My penguin bowling ranks right up there with last month’s “my xylophone” project that we are STILL playing with!

Project #2:

The second project was “my aurora postcards” and included everything you need to create your own “Southern Lights” postcards with oil pastels and watercolors. The minute I saw the oil pastels, I knew this project was going to be fun. Something about oil pastels just reminds me of art classes in like middle school. It’s not something I ever buy for L (I really don’t know why I don’t though), so when we get some, it’s extra special. This project was medium on the messiness scale and involved creating, moving – fine and communicating.

L and I both made a postcards and kinda worked on each others too. They turned out nothing like the Southern Lights, but we certainly had fun creating! And we have tons of left over materials to give it another go. We used a lot of paint, so our postcards will not be ready to be mailed for at least a week or two while they dry out. LOL.

This month’s Kiwi Crate also included a penguin ice mold to use to make the ice for some of the projects in the “explore more” booklet. We haven’t done any of the projects (ice cube lift, melting race and ice excavation) yet, but I can’t wait to try them. L, on the other hand, wants to use the penguin mold to make jell-o ;). I think we might have to make jell-o penguins and then make the ice or I will never hear the end of it!

If you don’t already know, Kiwi Crate is $19.95/monthly and is geared towards kids ages 3-7.  L and I have done most every project we have gotten in our crates so far and have always been entertained with them.  You can go to the Kiwi Crate website to order your crate subscription or to check out the Limited Edition Boxes (“Crafty Christmas”, “Gifts Made by Me” and “Handmade Hanukkah”).

Kiwi Crate subscriptions seriously make great holiday gifts (why just give one gift when you can give 6-months worth) and right now, you can use code “CMPFORLESS” to save $10 off your gift subscription!  AND if you order by 12/19, their first box will be delivered by 12/24, so you still have time!  I gave my niece a subscription for Christmas and I believe her first box should be arriving any day now!  If you still aren’t sure about it and want to check out more reviews (by me), click here and you can see all of the previous boxes we received.

Do you subscribe to Kiwi Crate?  What’d you think of this month’s box?  Did you love it as much as we did?

Disclosure: Affiliate links are included in the post, but, as always, all opinions are my own (and L’s).  We bought this box ourselves (well my mom bought it for L, but same thing) and Kiwi Crate has nothing to do with me.