You’re already subscribed to monthly boxes that keep your sock game strong and your dog’s breath fresh, certainly your kids deserve the same personal shopper treatment. Of course, you could probably just curate highly personalized, monthly crates of toys, games, projects, and activities that teach them about global cultures, STEM, coding, building, sustainability, art, and any other interest little kids can dream up. You have plenty of time for that, right?
If You Don’t Mind A Little Mess
Promote your little maker’s STEM skills with creativity kits from Green Kid Crafts, like a basil and sprout gardening kit, or that timeless classic: the baking soda volcano. Depending on your child’s age, each box of 4-6 kits is either an opportunity for quality time together or an effective way to absorb their attention for a few hours while you get some work done.
Green Kid Crafts ($20 monthly, $19 for 6 months, $18 for 12 months)
Ages: 3-10
If You Believe Adventure Can Come In A Box
As seen on Shark Tank, Surprise Ride delivers a monthly “adventure” in the form of activities, lessons, instructions, fun facts, and snacks curated around a random theme. Your kid will know about everything from Amelia Earhart to bees, dragons, and Paris, all without ever thumbing through a World Book. Do they even make the World Book anymore? Doesn’t matter, you were in at “snacks.”
Surprise Ride ($30 monthly, $25 for 6 or 12 months)
Ages: 6-11
If Your Home Is Absolutely Out Of Space
Each Sparkbox offers 4 educational toys and games, curated based on an age-appropriate “curriculum” designed to promote play between you and your kid. At the end of each period, you return the products (free of charge) and receive a new box. Theoretically, this would let you get rid of the horde of misfit toys currently occupying your house. Good luck with that.
Sparkbox ($35 monthly, $20 bi-monthly)
Ages: 0-4
If You Want Your Kid To Invent The Future (Or At Least Work In It)
Bitsbox delivers a new set of coding projects every month that allow kids to build real apps for real devices (in real life, despite being originally launched on Kickstarter). Because toys that teach coding are awesome, but an ongoing subscription service will keep your kid interested in coding long enough to land them one of those crazy future jobs that don’t exist yet.
Bitsbox ($20 monthly PDF, $40 month to month, $35 for 3 months, $30 for 12 months)
Ages: 6-12
If You Just Want To Get To The LEGOs Already
LEGOs are the greatest, but they’re also expensive. With Pley’s monthly subscriptions, you can get more than 400 different kits — all über sanitized, because kids are the greatest, but they’re also gross — delivered directly to your door. They won’t even charge you for lost pieces, because you’ll eventually step on them and that’s punishment enough.
Pley ($20 for ‘Easy’ and ‘Medium’ toys, $50 for ‘Easy,’ ‘Medium,’ and ‘Advanced’)
Ages: 2-You
by MindMake via MindMake Blog
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