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L’s September Kiwi Crate arrived a few days ago, but we didn’t have a chance to work on it until after school today. I try my hardest to wait until we get a chance to do the projects to do these reviews because seeing the actual projects in their completed form is way better!
Kiwi Crate ships via FedEx Smart Post. I think they now send out shipping e-mails a few days after your crate has actually shipped, so the wait doesn’t seem quite as long.
The September Kiwi Crate theme is “modern art” and included two projects to complete: “my color block painting” and “my hanging mobile”. We picked the painting project first because it seemed messiest ;). Here’s what we thought:
~Project #1 – My Color Block Painting:
The first project was “My Color Block Painting” and included everything needed to create a painting with unique patterns and designs. It was high on the messiness scale (YAY!), low on the grownup involvement scale (not really since I believe paint = high grownup involvement) and involved creating, moving – fine and exploring.
L was all over this project! He happily taped up his canvas (he only needed a little help from me) and got to painting. We decided that four colors weren’t enough and decided to mix some colors to get orange, green and purple. L knew exactly what needed to be mixed and would add more paint to get just the right shades ;).
We couldn’t wait to show B when he got home from work / school and when we did, he was all, no, you guys didn’t make that?? He was very impressed! I thought this project was fun and easily something that could be recreated, but with different results. Probably one of my favorite Kiwi Crate projects ever.
Project #2 – My Hanging Mobile:
The second Kiwi Crate project was “my hanging mobile” and included everything you needed to make your own hanging mobile – and then experiment with it to see how it balances. The project was low on the messiness scale and medium on the grownup involvement scale. It involved creating, moving – fine and discovering.
This wasn’t one of my favorite Kiwi Crate projects. We had fun making it, but I thought the instructions were a bit hard to follow. Once we just did things our own way, we were fine. And our mobile was actually quite balanced!
Gift:
I wasn’t expecting it, but I love that Kiwi Crate included a little cute gift in the boxes this month! L loves the little erasers and will totally use them when he does his homework.
explore! Magazine
This is Kiwi Crate’s second month of their “explore” magazine and I am still loving it. It’s got all sorts of cute little activities and projects and I plan to throw it in my bag for when we are waiting to get out meals and restaurants and that sort of thing.
This month’s card included a card advertising their Limited Edition Halloween Crate, which looks quite cool. It’s $19.95, but you can use the code “halloween5” to save 10%.
If you don’t already know, Kiwi Crate is $19.95/monthly and is geared towards kids ages 3-7. We’ve subscribed for ages and have always enjoyed our crates! If you are interested in subscribing, head to the Kiwi Crate website to order your crate. And if you received a crate this month, what did you think?
