Activities and Fun

This is NOT a sponsored post. Just me sharing something fun with you! 

Last year, my parents gifted M a Koala Crate subscription and she loved every second of it. So for Christmas this year they did it again. She got her first box this week and it's all been a huge hit! 

Koala Crates are a subscription box full of hands-on experiences. Each box is themed and has three activities with everything you need, a parent guide that even indicated the messiness factor of each activity, and a little magazine with a story, fun facts and more activity ideas. 

The theme of January's box was Bugs. 

M got to make a bug costume, a ladybug pouch for the bug eye viewer and bug matching card game. 

The box came on Monday and we did one activity a day. So these pictures are from Monday when she made the bug costume. She did almost everything by herself, including laying out how she wanted the cape to look and peeling off the sticker backing from the felt. 

Yesterday she again did all the work, even the lacing for the pouch. And today we played the game a few times. She has learned a little bit about bugs and we've had a lot of fun together. The Koala crate is the preschool option at Kiwi Co. But they have a ton of options for ages 0-Adult.  I would 100% recommend the boxes. 

The part I like the most is that the materials are nice enough that if you want to keep an item around for a long time that's perfectly fine. But they are inexpensive enough that if after the activity is over you want to throw out the stuffed snake, you can do that too. (Speaking from experience.) And in all the boxes we've gotten, we've only had to provide water for one activity, everything else we've needed is in the box. 

After school yesterday C wanted to do an activity so we made Andes Mint Chocolate Crinkles. 

They turned out so well. My guy LOVES minty things so he really enjoyed these cookies. They are kind of like soft Thin Mints without the chocolatey coating. Which is to say there's a minty flavor but it's well balanced. 

So that's what we've been up to lately. The weather had been quite mild and we've been outside a lot soaking it in, but today it's only in the mid-20s so... inside is good today.