We recently purchased the ToucanBox to try, after having read so many 5* reviews. Having had a play, I thought it would be nice to share our experiences and what we think!
Toucanbox is an arts and crafts box, aimed at children between the ages of 3-8. The box is carefully designed to provide hours of fun, learning and creativity.
What's inside the box?
The box generally comes with a ToucanBox magazine, stickers, a sticker wall chart, and two hands on crafts activities.
The magazine provides more ideas and activities for children to do. The magazine that came with our box includes items such as 'how to make your own ice cream', 'build a robot', and 'turn yourself into a toucanoo'. The instructions on making your own ice cream are simple and clear enough for my 7 year old to follow, making it his project (and that is what you like to see). The magazine is further full of activities such as mazes, fill in missing words, game (sequencing game, or more commonly known as coding), designing and colouring. Making your own robot is a great piece showing how items such as old boxes and bottles can be used to make a robot...another great activity for the kids, unleashing their imagination.
The wall sticker chart is basically that, but you receive a sticker in each box you receive, and when you reach 20 you can claim your free prize! Something the kids definitely look forward to.
The two hands on activities that came with the box we received were, making our own felt flowers and poinsettia flower and making a racoon outfit.
Once again the clear instructions with lots of bright coloured illustrations make the activates easy to carry out by children (but with scissors involved adult supervision is a must). I also really like how the instruction sheet uses a 4 point scale for 'grown up assistance needed' and 'messiness'. For the flower making activity, it has a 3 points for assistance and 1 point for messiness (I was happy to see that, activities that get too messy can make me nervous!). Everything is provided within the pack to create your flowers except scissors...and I have to be honest, when activities require a long list of items from home, it takes a long time for us to complete those (getting everything together, buying, ordering takes time!).
Making the felt flowers required the use of felt, double stick tape, pipe cleaners, ribbon, pom poms - all provided, and scissors from home. The Poinsettia flower making required red paper, jewel, double stick tape, string - all provided and scissors. Both of these activities were easy to complete, they required a lot of snipping here and there but otherwise quite simple and very enjoyable.
Making a racoon outfit has 2 points for assistance, which meant I could take a back seat and not have a lot to do, messiness has 1 point, phew I thought! For the racoon outfit, nothing else was required from home (excellent - literally open up contents and get going!). To make the racoon outfit, we needed sticky foam strips, sock, ribbon, elastic, foam mask and ears, sticky back felt pieces and sticky back foam pieces. All the required items were provided, so we got on with this task in no time! The end result, a great mask and tail for the child to play with!
What we think?
The ToucanBox definitely provides hours of fun, with lots of activities in the magazine plus the activities with items provided. Little person was happily able to do the majority of the work (except scissor use), The box is for the children, and they haven't failed in ensuring the instructions and written content is easy for children to understand.
I'm always pleased when all the content needed is provided, it takes the hassle out of trying to do something 'fun' with the children!
ToucanBox definitely provides hours of fun, enables children to delve into the depths of their imaginations and allows for some wonderful creativity. There are enough activities provided, so you will find this won't be a one day box, but something that will last long enough...at least until the rain has gone!
Want to try one for yourself? Follow the link to try a free box and see what you think, click here and enter the code AWBOX19. Hurry, offer ends soon, or simply click on the advert banner!
Toucanbox is an arts and crafts box, aimed at children between the ages of 3-8. The box is carefully designed to provide hours of fun, learning and creativity.
What's inside the box?
The box generally comes with a ToucanBox magazine, stickers, a sticker wall chart, and two hands on crafts activities.
The magazine provides more ideas and activities for children to do. The magazine that came with our box includes items such as 'how to make your own ice cream', 'build a robot', and 'turn yourself into a toucanoo'. The instructions on making your own ice cream are simple and clear enough for my 7 year old to follow, making it his project (and that is what you like to see). The magazine is further full of activities such as mazes, fill in missing words, game (sequencing game, or more commonly known as coding), designing and colouring. Making your own robot is a great piece showing how items such as old boxes and bottles can be used to make a robot...another great activity for the kids, unleashing their imagination.
The wall sticker chart is basically that, but you receive a sticker in each box you receive, and when you reach 20 you can claim your free prize! Something the kids definitely look forward to.
The two hands on activities that came with the box we received were, making our own felt flowers and poinsettia flower and making a racoon outfit.
Once again the clear instructions with lots of bright coloured illustrations make the activates easy to carry out by children (but with scissors involved adult supervision is a must). I also really like how the instruction sheet uses a 4 point scale for 'grown up assistance needed' and 'messiness'. For the flower making activity, it has a 3 points for assistance and 1 point for messiness (I was happy to see that, activities that get too messy can make me nervous!). Everything is provided within the pack to create your flowers except scissors...and I have to be honest, when activities require a long list of items from home, it takes a long time for us to complete those (getting everything together, buying, ordering takes time!).
Making the felt flowers required the use of felt, double stick tape, pipe cleaners, ribbon, pom poms - all provided, and scissors from home. The Poinsettia flower making required red paper, jewel, double stick tape, string - all provided and scissors. Both of these activities were easy to complete, they required a lot of snipping here and there but otherwise quite simple and very enjoyable.
Making a racoon outfit has 2 points for assistance, which meant I could take a back seat and not have a lot to do, messiness has 1 point, phew I thought! For the racoon outfit, nothing else was required from home (excellent - literally open up contents and get going!). To make the racoon outfit, we needed sticky foam strips, sock, ribbon, elastic, foam mask and ears, sticky back felt pieces and sticky back foam pieces. All the required items were provided, so we got on with this task in no time! The end result, a great mask and tail for the child to play with!
What we think?
The ToucanBox definitely provides hours of fun, with lots of activities in the magazine plus the activities with items provided. Little person was happily able to do the majority of the work (except scissor use), The box is for the children, and they haven't failed in ensuring the instructions and written content is easy for children to understand.
I'm always pleased when all the content needed is provided, it takes the hassle out of trying to do something 'fun' with the children!
ToucanBox definitely provides hours of fun, enables children to delve into the depths of their imaginations and allows for some wonderful creativity. There are enough activities provided, so you will find this won't be a one day box, but something that will last long enough...at least until the rain has gone!
Want to try one for yourself? Follow the link to try a free box and see what you think, click here and enter the code AWBOX19. Hurry, offer ends soon, or simply click on the advert banner!
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