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Folidgo is an activity pack delivered to your mailbox each month. With a subscription, your child receives a new story (episode) and hands-on crafty goodness for $11.95/month. You can also opt for a digital subscription for $4.95/month. All you need to complete the episode is scissors and something to color it with.
Foldigo is one of the reviews I am way behind on and there’s nothing I can do but blame it on L and his social obligations ;). Just kidding. But he seriously is a busy guy. Foldigo is a Canadian company, so they ship from Canada, but the envelope arrived to me very quickly.
Each activity pack contains:
~A short story episode drawn in a comic book style
~One, full colour episode character that can be folded into 3D form.
~A sheet of 2D characters and objects pulled right from the episode to cut out, color, and play with.
~A foldable pop-out background to recreate a scene from the episode (along with the 2D characters).
L worked on coloring the background while I worked on folding Francesca (the dog in the story). Oh my. I don’t know why I thought it would be easy to fold a piece of paper into a dog, but it certainly wasn’t. I seriously broke a sweat. I wrongly assumed that you just folded where the lines were and it all magically held together. After trying this for like 20 minutes I decided to get out the scotch tape. Much better ;). After I was done, I took over coloring for L (he can only handle so much coloring) and he got to work cutting out the 2D characters.
As luck would have it, B arrived home just as I was getting ready to cut out the background, which folds into a 3D display. I wasn’t sure where to begin, but B had everything cut and folded in no time.
I gotta tell you, when I saw all the flat pieces of paper and thought no way is this going to work. No way. But shockingly, it did. And it was a very fun way to bring the story to life. While L enjoyed the coloring, the cutting and the story, but he’d never have been able to fold by himself. Heck I couldn’t even fold it on my own ;).
If you are interested in subscribing to Foldigo or just want to learn more, click here! And also, feel free to tell me what a good job coloring the background L and I did! We are pretty proud of our work.
