What is it?
Ivy Kids is a monthly subscription box that has tons of educational material for kids from ages 3-8 that are developed by certified early childhood teachers. Each month, a kit is sent that contains more than 10 activities that revolve around problem solving, identifying numbers and letters, building gross motor skills, literacy skills and math skills.
Cost
$38.95/monthly (also have 3-month and 6-month plans for lower price) – get 20% off your first box from Ivy Kids here.
What is included
10-12 creative, hands-on learning activities for your little one that revolve around a certain theme.
Let’s see what’s inside this month’s box.
This month’s theme was featured around the book The Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater. As evident, there were tons of colorful and fun activities in this box. The book explores the topic of individuality, being different and accepting the differences as the new normal. The deeper meaning was probably not understood by my preschooler, but she enjoyed the story as it revolved around colors and creativity. I am sure we will be reading this book for years as she grows up! As a parent, I think it is an absolute classic.
Now onto the activities — I really liked that the activities were all relevant to the book and helped in promoting learning while allowing your child to be creative as well as have fun with it.
Create Your Own House
We had lots of making our own house with the wooden sticks, plenty of room for creativity. A great hands on activity that allows your child to think outside the box.
My daughter enjoyed painting the house she built.
Our beautiful house all colored and ready to be posted on the refrigerator.
Engineering Challenge
This activity requires your child to build structures with the wooden cubes, sticks and glasses. Absolutely a fun challenge that tests their gross motor skills as well as challenges them to think outside the box so that they can manage to balance the wood cubes. We started off with the easy ones, and gradually went onto the challenging ones.
Very proud of her accomplishment here!
Orange Splot Number Bingo
Another fun activity that teaches your child about identifying numbers. Now for a preschooler, the actual game of Bingo is definitely a bit advance to understand. But identifying numbers and putting the orange dauber dot on it was right up Ms. H’s alley! So we played together and enjoyed finding the numbers as we rolled the die.
Dream House
The star activity from this month’s Ivy Kids box! Ms. H waited very impatiently until we got to this part. She couldn’t wait to get started on painting and decorating her very own little house. This activity encourages creativity and allows little ones to decorate their heart out. I liked how this one specifically relates back to the theme in the book — channeling your inner creativity into something positive.
Can you “Splot” What Doesnt Belong?
The purpose of this activity was to identify objects that were different in a row of pictures. This was a perfect learning activity that teaches about identifying differences and looking at similarities.
Where Does It Belong?
Another winner activity that tests the concept of organizing and sorting and how well your child understands where each piece of furniture belongs inside the house.
Chalkboard House
Another fun arts and crafts activity that my daughter enjoyed. The chalkboard however will probably not last a long time as it seemed a bit flimsy. However, we do appreciate how everything is included in the box, and almost nothing is ever required from outside the box.
The chalkboard from this activity will also be used for another activity in the game of pictionary. Unfortunately, I was not able to get pictures for that.
Shades of Orange Experiment
This activity once again was very hands on — which I would like to call Ivy Kids’ trademark. Their activities are always very creative and require the kids to really do everything on their own — thereby making it easier to understand the learning concepts.
We had to pour in the provided colors in 2 different containers of water. And then pour in the yellow water in the provided glasses.
And test for the shades of orange that you get by using the pipette pouring in drops at a time.
This was a very fun experiment for my daughter and she thoroughly enjoyed it!
Building The Neighborhood
Another activity revolving around the concept of numbers and counting. My daughter and I had tons of fun playing the neighborhood game and the colorful cubes made counting so much more fun!
Our Verdict
We loved this month’s Ivy Kids box as it was chock full of fun experiments and learning activities. As always there is a lot of thought put into crafting each learning activity and craft and I as a parent certainly sees my 3 year old benefitting from these every month. The best part is that there are always 2-3 activities that can be easily re-used and we can do those as many times as we like. 10/10 from us again!
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