The finish line is in sight, folks! If you’re anything like me, by this point you’ve probably lost your motivation for organizing and leading new and exciting day trips and adventures every day. Maybe you need something quiet and low-key to keep your kids busy without requiring a song and dance from you too. Sound familiar? In my house, arts and crafts are how we do it.
We recently received these two girly girl craft kits from Orb Factory, a Canadian company based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing award winning crafts and activity kits in over 60 countries. These were perfect to keep Tee busy (and quiet!), especially while her baby sister is napping.
Princess Palace Treasure Box
Here’s everything that comes in the Princess Palace Treasure Box kit. There’s 560 stickers in that box!
This kit is recommended for ages 5 and up, and I really appreciate that kids don’t have to be proficient readers in order to do this project. The instructions assign a number to each kind of sticker. Kids match up the stickers to the “map”, then just put the stickers on by number! The instructions recommend that an adult stick on the crenellation piece along the lid of each box. I did this part for Tee, but I guess they were too tempting for her because she kept fiddling with them until she half pulled them off twice. Eventually I just glued them down.
This is a really neat project, but it’s BIG! It took us 4 sessions to finish the 3 stacking boxes – and I even helped some. It’s a lot of sticking for younger kids to do at one time, so I wouldn’t expect your child to finish this in one day unless they’re quite a bit older or prepared to spend hours on this. It was a lot of work, but Tee thought it was worth it. She loves keeping her treasures safe and sound in these special boxes stacked on her dresser.
My First Blinglets
The My First Blinglets kit comes with 8 wide plastic bangles in pink and purple, 8 stick on patterns, and 440+ sticker jewels. This project was more manageable for Tee because she could do just one or two bangles at a time. Suggested age on these is 4 and up, and that seems spot on to me.
First Tee picked the colour bangle she wanted, and then she picked the stick on pattern. This part required an adult to get the sticker on evenly and without bubbles all around the bangle. Once that was on though, she was totally fine to read her “map” and stick on the corresponding jewels without any assistance. Of course, older children can design and create their own patterns without the stick on template if they’d like.
Initially Tee struggled with getting the jewels off the clear plastic backing. She kept leaving the gluey bit behind on the sheet. I taught her how to bend the backing while peeling off the sticker and that solved the problem for the most part. Fortunately, there are lots of extra stickers in the kit to allow for some wastage.
And here are some of the final products! Tee loves them! The only issue we had is with the size of the bangles. They actually fit on my wrist. As this kit is intended for younger children, I wish they were a bit smaller so Tee could wear them without them slipping right off.
Any little girl would love to own these craft kits! And if these particular ones aren’t your style, Orb Factory carries over 150 different crafts suitable for both girls and boys of any age.
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The Princess Palace Treasure Box retails for $17.99, and My First Blinglets for $19.99. You can pick up these craft kits and more from Orb Factory or Amazon.com.
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Butterfly Magnets would be fun to make
my girl loves the Mermaid Treasures Jewelry Box, so cute and colorful!
The Pulsar Powerballs are something my grandchildren would love to make.
my niece would love the Unicorn Jewelry Box
My daughter & son would both love the puppy love pillow.
MY daughter loves the Owl Pal Pillow she is wanting to learn sewing
Butterfly magnets
I know that my daughter would love the Cupcake pillow plush craft.
My grand daughter would love a Curiosity Kit
My granddaughters would be over the moon with Sparkle Bands, they’d have so much fun making them and wearing them too 🙂
Butterfly magnets are sweet
Imaginista looks interesting!
My son would be totally into a curiosity kit.
Cupcake pillow plush craft.
The Sparkle Bands
My son would LOVE the Robots kit from their original line.
My daughter would love another plush craft kit. She loved the one i got her last year.
I like the Butterfly Magnets
My four year olds would LOVE this http://www.orbfactory.com/Brands/Sticky-Mosaics-R
Thanks for hosting and making this giveaway open to Canadians.
Besos, Sarah
Blogger at Journeys of The Zoo
The Sticky Mosaics Piggy Bank looks like fun.
Grandaugthers would like the Unicorn Jewelry Box
My daughter would love the Teddy Bear Pillow -she is very crafty!
She would like Stick n Style- Tech case.
All of them, cupcake pillow plush kit looks like a winner
my girls would love the Mermaid Treasures Jewelry Box
I think my daughter would love the cure compact
My daughter would also love the Dolphins Water Bottle kit.
Sparkle Skins.
The “Cupcake Clutch.”
i like the Sparkle Skins.
SPARKLE BANDS
Pulsar Powerballs or Build Your Own Super Sonic Rockets
My daughter has had the Owl Pal Pillow and the Butterfly Pillow and loves them! I’m sure she’d love another one of those pillows or the Sparkle Skins or a Dolphin Water Bottle.
This is so neat!!!
i think my kids would love the curiousity kits
I like the pulsar powerballs. Thank you
My daughters and my nieces would really enjoy the Curiosity Kits! Thank you!
We would also love to try the Pulsar Powerballs.
My kids thought the pulsar power balls looked fun
D.I.Y Tie Dye
I like the Sparkling Jewelry Box Kit
The butterfly magnets would go over well
Magnetic Mosaics look awesome too!
We’d love to get the Build Your Own Super Sonic Rockets kit.
Love the SparkleUps®
Mine like the Curiosity Kits I do too!
My son would love the Pulsar powerballs my daughter would love the puppy love or the purr fect pillow from plush craft
My girls would enjoy making the Butterfly Magnets.
My granddaughter would totally love the Sparkle Bands. She loves anything that sparkles
She’d like the Sparkle Shades kit. Thanks.
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