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Doodle Crate
Cost: $19.95/month.
Ships To: United States and Canada.
Coupon Code: Use code “SHARE10” to save $10 off your first month.

Doodle Crate is one of the new(er) lines in the Kiwi Crate family. Designed for girls ages 9-16, Doodle Crate includes all the materials and inspiration for DIY projects such as patterned pouches, friendship bracelets, or colorful candles. Crates encourage girls to tackle new challenges and gain creative confidence!

Doodle Crate ships via FedEx Smart Post and usually takes about a week to arrive to me.

I rarely know (or remember) the theme of these before I open them and was really excited to see this one.  It looked very fun.

The December 2016 Doodle Crate project was make your own “Screen Printed Backpack”.

The box included absolutely everything you need to complete the project.  I have never had an issue with running out of materials for any Doodle Crate project I have worked on. If anything they give you more than necessary.

The information booklet includes detailed instructions on how to complete the project. They also post videos to YouTube with additional instructions.

The first step was to select the stencil you wanted to use on your bag. I went for the “chevron”.  I thought about the French Bulldog, but I didn’t want Buddy and Baxter to get jealous ;).

The instruction booklet suggested doing a test using the included cardboard first.  But it also mentioned that once you use a stencil, it’s basically done for and that you need to make a copy of it first (and recut it) if you want to use the same pattern.  I thought I would just go straight for the bag because I knew me trying to make an exact replica of the stencil wouldn’t go well.

I ended up using the same stencil all three of the chevron patterns on my bag.  You could tell by the third one (that’s the top one) that things weren’t as perfect as they’d been when I started.  But it worked and I thought the results were great.  Screen printing itself was much easier than expected.  And fun.  I really enjoyed learning about the process and would rank this as one of my most favorite Doodle Crate projects.

What do you think about Doodle Crate?  If you are interested in subscribing you can sign up here and use the coupon code “SHARE10” to save $10 off your first box!  The coupon code applies to Doodle Crate, Koala Crate, Kiwi Crate and / Tinker Crate, so there is something for almost every age!