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If you’ve been reading this blog for the past year, You’ll already know that I get together with my 7 year old grand daughter several times a month for regular play dates, movie nights & craft afternoons. I’ve been hosting these little get-togethers with her …
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I love subscription boxes, especially boxes that are aimed at arts, crafts and pretend play. Every 2 weeks I have my grand daughter over at our home for a bi-monthly crafting with Nanny date. When we sit down to craft, we work on all kinds of different projects, many of which we feature here on Two Classy Chics under our Crafting with Kid’s category.
Recently we were introduced to Bramble Box which is a monthly subscription box for kids! These boxes contain arts & crafts to encourage pretend play. Every month a new theme’d box is delivered to the child’s home and includes all or almost all of the supplies that you’ll need.
Each subscription is customizable and you can set up what kind of themes that you would like delivered. Each box includes hands-on activities, full instructions, supplies and sometimes a great book! These subscription boxes make great Christmas gifts, Easter gifts, Valentine’s Day gifts, Birthday gifts or just-because gifts for any young child. Each one starts at just $24 per month.
If you’re new…you’ll receive a FREE welcome pack which includes a bottle of glue, crayons and a sticker activity book. Shipping is included to the U.S.A. and if you live in Canada, you’ll pay shipping, but it’s extremely reasonable. You can subscribe for 3, 6 or 12 months and you can cancel anytime before the next monthly box has been processed.
For our review we received the Pretend Flower Shop from Bramble Box and we absolutely LOVE it! Inside our box we received everything we needed to make a pretend flower shop! There were sheets of tissue papers, cupcake liners, chenille stems, flower pots, doilies, open/closed store sign, pretend money, business hours sign, a price list for the store and a box to decorate to hold the flowers.
One of the things I loved was the instruction book which includes easy-to-understand directions, photographs to help you make the flowers & supplies, etc. The FREE welcome pack was pretty cool too! All of the supplies that were included were quality-made.
We sat down with the Princess and got busy working on our tissue paper flowers and cupcake liner flowers which took us about 90 minutes to complete them all. You can make quite a few with the supplies that they included. After we were done with the flowers, she decorated the flower box and the flower pots. If you want to make even more flowers, you can go out and buy additional supplies and easily make them.
Once everything was done…she sat and played with her Pretend Flower Shop for 3 hours that very first day! She got out her own cash register and shopping cart which really enhanced her play time. Matter of fact, she has played with this set numerous times since we received it and loves it!
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Twice a month I get together with my almost 7 year old grand daughter and we sit down to craft together. We’ve been doing this for the past 1 1/2 years and she loves it. It’s a great way to spend time with children and have a good bonding session with them.
As part of our bi-monthly crafting with kids segment we are featuring a wonderful craft kit that you can do with older kids!
Silver Dolphin Books presents a crafting kit just for kids: Pom-Pom Pals: Animals ISBN: 978-1626862906; Ages 7 and up, and contains everything that budding crafters need to create the most adorable fuzzy friends you’ve ever seen. This complete kit and detailed book of instructions comes with easy-to-use pom-pom makers, four colors of yarn, felt, ribbon, and ready-made mini pom-poms, everything kids will need to make a lion, penguin, monkey, and panda. The full-color simple step-by-step instruction book contains extra project ideas and instructions to make even more adorable pom-pom animals, plus fascinating facts about each creature. Once kids have created their new pom-pom friends, they can personalize their animals and sign the included adoption certificate to become the official owners of the cutest critters on the planet.
The kit includes a 48-page book with step-by-step instruction, 3 pom-pom makers, 4 colors of yarn (18 yards each), 3 pieces of colored felt, 15 ready-made mini pom-poms, 2 decorative ribbons, a press-out carrier, and an adoption certificate.
Our Thoughts: This kit is for children ages 7 and up, but as a grandmother to a 7 year old…I admit, I did have to help her quite a bit when making these. The kit comes with everything you’ll need except for: glue, scissors and a tape measure for measuring out the lengths of yarn. Each kit will make the 4 featured animals, but includes instructions to make 4 additional ones (you’ll need to add more supplies to do that).
The instructions and patterns for each animal are in the included book and all of the instructions are very easy to follow, along with the color photographs and diagrams. To start out – You’ll assemble your supplies and then make the required pom-poms by using the included pom-pom maker. Once they’ve been made, you’ll assemble your new animal with glue and then let it dry. Each animal took us about 45 minutes to make and then another 1-2 hours of drying time.
So far, we’ve made 3 out of the 4 pom-pom animals and with adult help, a child can make these. If you have an older child (maybe above the age of 10) they could probably make them by themselves. Younger kids will definitely need some help.
You can find this fabulous craft kit with book when you shop at Silver Dolphin Books, along with hundreds of other titles that they have available.
Disclosure: We received a complimentary book and craft kit from Silver Dolphin Books to feature as part of our bi-monthly “Crafting with Kids” segment here on TheClassyChics Blog. No monetary compensation was receive. Our thoughts, opinions and words are 100% our own.
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