Review - Weekend Box

We were recently lucky enough to be sent a Weekend Box to try out. Weekend boxes are fortnightly boxes aimed at children aged 3-8 that are delivered straight to your door containing creative, green and healthy activities.

The main reason that I was attracted to them was that I thought that it would overcome my indecisiveness - often I spend far too long trying to plan what to do with the girls - should we bake or play with playdough or paint or do some loose parts play, do a jigsaw or make a den, I get so tangled up in indeciseness I waste precious time and it really annoys me. 

So the Weekend Box seemed like a perfect solution as it promised to contain educational and explorative activities all decided for me already thereby making my life a whole lot easier.

It arrived with a thump on the doormat on Thursday. Thursday seems to be our happy post day. With a Graze box and a Weekend box excitement levels in the house reached an all time high. But I managed to calm myself down and put the box in a drawer ready for the weekend.

Inside were four brightly coloured paper packages each with accompanying instructions.

something to cook

something to make

something to explore

something green

Our box certainly smelled very interesting! Poppet could tell straightaway that something 'spicy!' was inside one of the packages.

Something to make

I brought the box out at the weekend and Poppet wasted no time getting stuck in, choosing the blue package first which contained everything we needed to make a 'Rocking Spring Bird' (we had to provide our own scissors and paintbrush but all the other crafty bits were included).

Poppet loves this type of activity - cutting things up, painting and glueing - and she was very proud of her little bird. We had enough bits left over (well we had to raid our craft supplies for one extra goggly eye) to make a second little bird for Little.

Rocking Spring Birds!

Poppet wanted to get started on the next activity straight away; we chose the 'something to explore' package. This contained a little sound worksheet for us to fill out and then we had to watch a youtube video to learn how to make a robot voice box from straws and a balloon. Well we certainly had family bonding time attempting to do this but even though we spent ages we were unable to make a reed out of our straws. And we went through many straws trying!   

Something to explore

Something green

The next day we tried our next activity, the Pot O' Gold game - it was very simple but Poppet was enthralled and especially loved the gold coins that came with it. She enjoyed being told about rainbows, and how at the end of them there is a leprechaun with a pot of gold but kept wanting more precise directions to this pot of gold - "But where mum?" 

We sang the 'I Can Sing a Rainbow' song while creating our pipecleaner rainbow over our pot of gold, starting out enthusiastically and ending by mumbling random colours. I really need to learn the words properly. The game was just flipping the coins into the pot of gold. Poppet was taken with it, even though she couldn't manage it unless she dropped the coin directly in, this didn't dampen her enjoyment. She took it upon herself to teach the game to Little when she awoke from her nap. And Little repayed the favour by peeling the eyes off the rocking spring birds much to the distress of Poppet.

Our Pot O' Gold

A few days later we attempted our 'something to cook' as we had to make a trip out to buy some supplies for it. Unfortunately this ended up as a bit of a disaster for us! I'm not sure what we did wrong really but our 'green pancakes' did not turn out like pancakes and were inedible, but Poppet had fun cracking the egg and adding the spices. I'm going to blame our cooking mishap on my scales.

Something to cook

One of Poppet's favourite parts of the box was the stickers that came with it to stick onto each instruction sheet when the activity had been completed. That was a really nice touch as what kid doesn't love a sticker.

We had great fun trying out all the activities in our Weekend Box even though we failed at half of them! We are going on a caravan holiday soon and I think that a Weekend Box would be perfect to take along to fill any quiet moments and it doesn't take up too much space.

I have a unique promo code for any of my readers if you would like to try out your very own Weekend Box!  It will get you your first box for free including delivery. The unique promo code is LISA152 and can be redeemed at www.weekendboxclub.com

Disclaimer: We were sent our Weekend Box for free, all opinions are our own.

Poppet: 3yrs 2mos
Little: 17 mos