Weekend giveaway: Green Kids Crafts
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This weekend I’m happy to introduce you to one of our family’s favorite recent discoveries: Green Kid Crafts. Are your kids as excited about receiving mail as mine are? Each month when they discover a Green Kids package in our mailbox, there is much rejoicing. (One just arrived yesterday, in fact!)
For those of us mamas who don’t consider ourselves super-crafty, Green Kid Crafts is like an art lesson for littles in a box–including all the supplies you need to complete three separate crafts. (No hunting around to locate the pipe cleaners required!)
More from Green Kid Crafts:
* Green Kid Crafts delights kids and their parents with fun, creative and earth-friendly craft activities, delivered right to their door! Every month’s Discovery Box is packed with three unique and engaging activity kits designed to foster a child’s creativity and confidence while developing their respect and love for the environment.
* Appropriate for ages 3-8, our projects are reviewed by experts to align with our Happy & Healthy Child principles, and kid tested and parent approved for fun.
* Each month brings a new theme relating to nature or the environment; past themes have included I Love Bugs, Outer Space, and Feathered Friends.
* In addition to the materials and instructions for the three craft activities, each Discovery Box includes a Discover More guide which provides more craft ideas using materials found around the house, related reading and other fun facts all related to that month’s theme.
* Green Kid Crafts is a mom-owned, green company founded by Penny Bauder, a mom of two and an environmental activist from Alaska. The company operates a virtual office, employing a network of passionate team members based across the US from California to Alaska to Connecticut.
* Green Kid Crafts is certified carbon neutral, Green America Approved, a member of 1% for the Planet, and has won numerous awards and designations for its responsible business practices. You can also read more about our “eco ingredients” online.
* Mail-order subscriptions are available in month-to-month, 3, 6 and 12 month durations, and also make great gifts. A monthly subscription via mail costs $19.95 and includes shipping.
Digital subscriptions, too!
Just like Green Kid Crafts’ regular subscription program, digital subscriptions deliver a wealth of fun and enriching craft and science activities, fun facts and extension ideas to families each month.
Digital subscribers receive a mammoth activity packet via email containing templates, instructions and lesson plans for at least 6 projects related to a new, nature-based theme.
The monthly packets make it convenient and easy to follow the Green Kid Crafts program at a lower cost than the mail order subscription.
One Simple Homeschool reader will win a 3-month subscription (via mail order) to Green Kid Crafts!
How to Win
To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post answering this question: How old are the kids in your home, and how do you approach arts and crafts with them? (If you’re reading this in an email, you must click over to the blog to enter!)
For a second entry, “Like” Green Kid Crafts and Simple Homeschool on Facebook. Then leave another comment here, letting me know you’ve done so.
This giveaway has ended. Thanks for entering!
Disclosure: I received complimentary Green Kid Crafts boxes to try out with my children. All opinions expressed in this post are my own.
8, 5,2, and 1. That’s a lot of cleaning to do when we’re crafting, and frankly I rarely have the fortitude to attempt it. It seems like these craft kits would take the pathetic out of my need for crafting assistance!
My son is 7, and he is not inclined to start a craft on his own. We often start a craft from our history curriculum or art program. Sometimes I see something online. I think he would love this!
My six year old son would adore this
My daughter is 10, and very creative. I’m not so we have difficulties in this area. I’m not very good at ideas or implementation. She would LOVE this as a way to express her creativity!
I liked both pages on Facebook as well 🙂
My boys are 8 and 3. Right now we really struggle with arts and crafts:-)
I liked Green Kids Crafts on Facebook.
She’s 8 – and I just make sure everything we have is easy for her to get and that there is plenty of space for her to work without worrying about making a mess (anywhere in the kitchen, and we keep a plastic tablecloth handy for the dining room table)
My kids are 10,13,16,18….Leaving the creativity to them is always the best result when it comes to crafting!! Both pages are already liked on FB as well.
We are a homeschooling family in Ontario’s finest cottage country. I have an almost 7 year old daughter, a 5 year old daughter, and a 3 year old son. Our crafting takes lots of planning as most materials are 1-2 hours away or by online sales. Otherwise, we have a nice stash built up and never have a shortage for fairy house building!
8&5. I am awful about arts and crafts, it is the last thing I think of doing. I bought a book and let them pick activities so that I could be sure to do SOMETHING! This giveaway is great!
We have a 6, 4 1/2, 3, and 1 year old who love crafts. I feel like I never have the time for planning anything more than coloring or glitter glue so this sounds like a great option!
My kids are 3, 9, 12, and 14. I’m not particularly creative, but my kids love doing crafts. This would be wonderful to have the ideas and supplies all together and ready to create! Thanks for the giveaway.
My boys are 6, 5, and 1. They love to do crafts. I wish I planned them more fortgem. We just to go to classes. Would love to win!
This is such a delightful giveaway! All the ingredients when the mood strikes! I have liked you both on Facebook!
Liked Green crafts kids on fb.
Kiddos: 6,5,1. We do collective craft projects as a family for come holidays–Mother’s Day, Valentines, Christmas. But the children also have craft supplies and kid-friendly craft books that they can pull out of the closet for rest time and those often turn into very creative adventures!
We have 6 and 2 year old and are in process of adopting 2 older children from Latvia who will be 9 and 10 when they come home. All of them love crafts but I have to limit which supplies are within reach b/c my 6 year old and 2 year old tend to get into mischief with them sometimes.
I liked both pages on fb 🙂
With an almost 3 year old and a new baby on the way, our approach to arts and crafts is um a little unorganized. We have a craft closet that houses stickers, do-a-dot paints, crayons, and sketchbooks. However, I’m not the type of mom who loves having gobs of craft supplies spread everywhere and I often don’t take the time to plan craft activities. Something like this would be lovely as my daughter would have a blast and I would just have to follow directions!! I call that a WIN!
I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old little girls. We don’t craft nearly as much as they would both like and I think winning something like this would help jump start me to do it more often!
5 and 1 1/2. We do a lot of drawing, painting, and cutting, but I’m not very organized in doing anything more than that.
I have a 12y/o daughter and a 5y/o son. My daughter loves to craft and is very self-motivated to do so. My son on the other hand, not so much. Getting him interested in a craft is difficult. If we can get him started, he usually (but not always) enjoys it. One of my big goals this year is to find some arts-activities he’ll like. I think one of his problems is that he sees the things his big sister does, and he gets frustrated if he can’t do the same things she can.
I have a 6 and 4 year old boys. My 6 year old is just starting to really get into trying different art – copying some of the masters and practicing with drawing books. We have been looking at some of our favorite illustrators to try to reproduce the work.
I have a 4 and 2.5 year old and I don’t have a ton of time to do crafts as I work full time, but encourage them to draw a lot and give them lots of empty boxes to inspire creativeness.