Kiwi Crate

I had never heard of Kiwi Crates until Thomas was given a couple as gifts for his 4th birthday.  They are a “crate” of simple activities around a theme that Thomas could use his imagination and create things with little to no mess.  He got the pirate adventure and the space hero boxes, the pictures below show him in his completed space hero crate and working on his pirate hat.  It was a creative hands on learning opportunity for him.  He calls them his special boxes and we have done these crates when he has a no nap day and Elin is napping so it allows us some special time together too.  He loves crafts and constructing and both the space hero and pirate adventure crates were right up his alley.  The only critique I had is that the markers were not washable. The only critique I have is that the markers they included, although fantastic metallic and really fun to write with, they are not washable…so as he continued to create all over other things we were unable to remove it.  Small price to pay for creative imaginative play I guess!