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Little Thinker Box
Cost: $25/month
Ships To: United States (Including APO addresses).
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Little Thinker Box, who kindly sent me this box to review, is a monthly subscription service for children preparing to enter Pre-K or Kindergarten. Each month the child is sent a themed-based activity box that focuses on reading, writing, math, science, and other skills; using fun games, crafts, and experiments. The makers of Little Thinker Box offers another subscription box named DoodleBug Busy Bags which is a monthly craft subscription box designed for kids 3-8 years old.
Little Thinker Box ships via USPS the second week of the month. If you order by the 22nd of the month you will receive your box the following month. If you ordered now, your first box would ship in December.
Every activity in Little Thinker Box comes packaged in individual bags so you can easily figure out which item goes with which product. It’s also nice because you don’t have to work on them all at once. You can skip around and do them throughout the month.
The Little Thinker Box theme I am reviewing is “Rainbows” and includes the following activities:
~Rainbow Lacing Kit: I have finally mastered the art of lacing (and so has L) and I am going to get WB off to an early start. This not only teaches lacing, but also color matching.
~Mosaic Rainbow Art: I so badly want to make this with WB (my boys are on either side of the recommended age for this), but I don’t think he’s ready. It would not turn out to be a rainbow, so we will hold off.
~Pot of Gold Counting: I really like this one. It has 10 hold coins and ten cards and you count out the number of gold coins that is associated with the number on the card. L is a master at this and WB likes to watch and will catch on soon.
~Rainbow Color Challenge: This activity includes an assortment of beads in different colors and a stack of cards with different patterns on them. The objective is to match up the beads according to the patterns on the card. WB really likes to stack the beads on it and will get a hang of the color thing soon enough.
~Rainbow Color Word Game: This game reminds me of Candy Land. You can play with 2-4 players and you take turns selecting cards (with colors on them) to move through the board. It’s a game, but you also learn because you have to read the words on the card and match the colors up.
~Rainbow Stick Challenge: The card gives a few different sets of instructions for these. You can have your little one sort the sticks by color, use them to form letters (L always used to do this), use them to form numbers and then use them along with the cards to form patterns.
~Rainbow Letter Match: This another one I really like and will be saving for WB for a while. We talk about it now, but he’s too little to still to be able to match them on his own.
~Rainbow Number Match: Just like the letter one, I will be saving this one for WB. It’s a fun / easy way to learn numbers.
All boxes also include an assortment of worksheets about the theme this month. They also have a letter of the month and give you information on that letter.
Just for Fun: This month’s Just for Fun items were a rainbow crayon, a fun pencil and a rainbow ball. This sounds kind of silly, but L has been wanting a rainbow crayon like this for ages and I haven’t been able to find, so I was thrilled to see this! And so was he. It is exactly what he’s been trying to describe to me.
It would have been almost impossible to do a cost breakdown on Little Thinker Box, but at $25/month, it’s a great deal. It’s going to save you a ton of “prep” time and will allow you to get right to learning!
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