Monkey has struggled a little since he started in Year Two. For the last month he’s come home and been a little like a bear with a sore head. It’s been hard to get him motivated to try the fun activities we’ve done in the past. But he seems to be settling into the routine again now and we’ve been getting crafty with My Gecko Box and their subscription arts and craft box.
You can pay for your subscription boxes monthly (€21.95) or in 3 month block (€59.85) and the boxes are aimed at children aged between 3-8 years of age. We received a Rainforest subscription box with a number of different craft activities to complete, a personalised letter and an educational fact sheet.
Getting crafty with My Gecko Box means you use everything that comes in the kit, including the box itself. What a great idea. The only thing you will need to supply yourself is a pair of scissors.
Each activity is individually packed and comes with a clear instruction leaflet, showing likely level of adult help required and how messy the kit might be to completed.
Monkey loves his mini beasts so I knew the various Pom Pom creatures would go down well.
The instructions are easy to follow and the animals are easy to make mess free. We did both struggle to get the eyes to stay on the snakes as the beads are curved, but Monkey didn’t seem bothered that his snakes were one-eyed in the end!
Tropical birds always come high up on our wish list when we visit the zoo, and the Hanging Tropical Bird kit is a lovely activity. Monkey managed most of it himself, we modified the instructions slightly as we found the wings needed folding over 8 times rather than 4, to fit through the hole. But otherwise this was a great craft kit.
What I love about the My Gecko Box set, is that all the templates are already done for you, you just have to cut them out. Neither Monkey nor I are particularly artistic, so he loved the fact he just had to cut around leaves, beaks and feet to make parts for the various activities.
The painted bubble wrap for our Caiman was a great idea and really effective.
As I mentioned earlier, everything gets used in this set. The box itself is the last activity, as it transforms into a Rainforest Diorama for all the animals to live in. Complete with greenery and a river, it’s a fun and clever way to round off the month’s craft activities.
We’ve had a lot of fun getting crafty with My Gecko Box recently. The monthly activity box is well thought out, is educational and everything other than scissors is provided. The team works out of Spain supplying kits to children both their and in the UK. As well as the subscription box service, they also offer a range of one-off discovery craft boxes and mini craft kits. Payment is taken via Paypal.
For more information on these sets pop over to the My Gecko Box website.
disclosure: we were sent the kit mentioned in exchange for an honest review
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Creating collages with leaves, acorns etc and leaf rubbings/prints as we can find all that we need while out walking our dog in the woods and park!
Painting with my son on a rainy day, it’s such a lovely indoor activity to enjoy together.
my boys love their nature walks and come home with all sorts of things to make pictures with
Making use of acorns and leaves. As leaves come in such an array of colours in the autumn. Often make use of acorns for Christmas displays etc. Nice to look forward to the Festive Season.
Making playdoh in autumnal colours 🙂
we love painting
We like making personal cards and have a lot of birthdays October and November. My son likes to paint leaves he has collected and make patterns
we like to start early and get our Christmas Cards all made – Some drawing – some sticking and all sorts but all handmade
Collecting leaves, and painting them! Making fun prints 🙂
My daughter loves to paint so we spend a lot of autumn days painting and drawing
Making a nature mobile using sticks, acorns and pinecones
I like making animals from conkers – they are free and there is plenty of them around.
Collecting fir cones and attaching florist’s wire to the bases, because then they will be ready for adding to floral decorations at Christmas
Collecting fir cones and attaching florist’s wire to the bases, because then they will be ready for adding to floral decorations at Christmas
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Making sculptures with acorns and conkers. I love autumnal colours so much, too.
Collecting Leaves and berries, paste and painting to make pictures
We like collecting things in the woods like pine cones, conkers, leaves and then making a collage aand a seasonal display
We love dipping leaves in paint and sprinkling them with glitter x
we collect leaves, paint them and glue them to make pictures
We quite like doing apple and potato shape prints with paint. 🙂
Last year we collected autumn leaves and made a lovely wreath for the front door. We also collect pine cones and make Christmas decorations with them.
Leaf prints and acorn men!
Leaf prints and conker collecting.
Collages of leaves and other “treasures” because it’s so much fun going out to find them.
We do leaf and potato printing and collect conkers.
we like painting fir cones and conkers for xmas centre pieces
Leaf rubbings
leaf pictures
My girls love craft (or as they call it “doing some arting”). They can’t wait for the autumn leaves to start coming down because they want to make me a picture with them.
We like collecting seeds from dead flower heads and saving foor sowing next year -some we use in our pictures i.e marigold seeds make a great furry coat for bears ( cover bear picture with glue and sprinkle seeds on ) very effective
I have a great imagination
painting conkers and drawing on and with leaves we have picked up
Leaf prints and collage making with all the things we find on our walks
Carving and decorating pumpkins because it’s a Halloween tradition.
my daughter loves getting leaves and sticking them to paper, she tries to find all the different coloured ones.
We love to making collage pictures of what we’ve seen, using what we’ve seen: twigs or bits of loose bark for trees, leaves for well, leaves- you get it! Never fails to amuse.
We love collecting leaves and painting with them
We love sticking Autumn leaves. It’s fun getting out and about to collect interesting leaves, and then seeing what we can use them to create on paper
Collecting leaves, acorns etc and making collages.
I once made a hedgehog picture using pencil shavings for the spines.
Me and my daughter love to collect leaves and use them for all sorts of things, printing, pictures or painting them golds, reds, greens etc and making a wreath.
we love coating and spraying acorns, it reminds us of christmas!
Collecting leaves and doing prints with them with the kids, it’s enjoyable because the kids imagination runs wild
We love making all sorts of Halloween decorations with papier mache as well as using tissue paper crafts, googly eyes and shiny bits!
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize to donate to charity, to go to Romania.
rubbing acrayon on a sheet of paper over a leaf, i always love the design you get.
Decorating conkers
We like to find things on our walks and then make pictures with them when we come home one because of the exercise and two gets the creative thinking going.
carving the pumpkins x
We love pressing leaves and making collages with all their glorious colours xx
We love collecting leaves and making collages.
We like collecting the changed coloured leaves and using them on home made cards.
We’ve been doing a lot of halloween crafts – my son has enjoyed making spiders out of toilet rolls, pipe cleaners & sticky goggly eyes.
Fingerprint paintings of trees with leaves all the beautiful autumn colours – makes you appreciate the change in seasons 🙂
Leaf print pictures. It’s great fun going out and looking for the nicest ones to use and identifying the different trees.
My boys love painting conkers
We like making scenes with twigs and leaves x
Collecting leaves and painting them.
Leaf printing is always fun, you get to go an adventure to collect them too
We love painting ! 🙂
love painting x
collecting conkers and kicking the dead leaves
Making pictures with the autumn leaves – great colours.
There’s so much great crafting to be had during autumn including making all those lovely Christmas cards, pumpkin carving for Halloween and using up all those fallen leaves & nuts in school projects. x
collarging leaves together so much fun finding different colours x
Mine would have to be collecting leaves and then making leave collages
Collecting leaves, cones and twigs and making models, especially for Christmas.
Love to gather leaves, sticks. Make our own frames.
Leaf printing is our favourite activity
I love to do leaf printing with the grandchildren because its great fun and gives me an excuse to go walking through crunchy leaves finding good ones 🙂
We love painting 🙂 xxx
I always enjoy doing match craft with my niece on the dining room table.
leaf prints are always good. It gets the boys out side and some healthy competition in finding the largest leaf
we love colouring and drawing x
We like painting and sticking.
Picking Apple’s from the tree and baking with them
I love making collage’s out of natures treasures
We love to making conker figures, they are really cool!!!
painting leaves and then printing them on paper we love that!!
Making halloween masks with my son, it’s great fun
Leaf rubbing because its really interesting and the kids can pick the leaves themselves
Picking up leaves and making them into art!
We love making pictures using leaves, its always lots of fun!
Collecting conkers to make conker caterpillars
Collecting leaves and creating pictures and collages from them
we like going on walks to collect things like leaves pinecones and conkers and using them to make different things and paint with them
Carving pumpkins! What else could it be?
In the autumn we start on our Christmas crafting, making cards, decorations and presents. It’s much easier than leaving it all until the last minute!
autumn crafting for us is walking in our local woods and collecting acorns, chestnuts, coloured leaves etc and making a collage with our finds
Leave rubbings, great fun, quick and easy so my little ones don’t get fed up
Making leaf art 🙂
Collecting pine cones and doing cone art.
My son and I love collecting conkers
My son and I love collecting conkers
we like collecting leaves and sticking them in a scrapbook my daughter can do it for hours
Making pretty candle displays and fairy lights with things like conkers, acorns and sticks. So much fun and look really cool
We make lovely autumn collages
Making collages out of leaves, pine cones etc with kids 🙂
Love making bird feeders for the Winter
we love collecting conkers and leaves – anything to get us outside!
Collecting leaves with my Granddaughter whilst out walking, because she loves making pictures with them x
Collages with different colour autumnal leaves as they are such pretty colours.
we love collecting pine cones and leaves and making pictures
We love doing firework painting every year, eldest loves mixing his colours too
Leaf printing as you get the fun of collecting, then the printing and can use the results for making presents or gift tags
We start making cards and pretty wrappings for Christmas in the autumn.
We love collecting leaves and making pictures from them
We make christmas cards ready to send out
Gluing leaves on paper to make pictures.
We love painting.
It just has to be pumpkin carving – we do it all autumn long and make pies with the flesh! It is such fun for us all.
Card making for christmas
I love making autumnal bowls with leaves ova and a balloon
We enjoy making pictures with leaves.
we love doing leaf print pictures, nothing better than getting the kids ready and taking a walk over cannock chase collecting fallen leaves
Making pictures out of dried leaves, because it’s fun to collect them 🙂
we like making leaf garlands – super simple to make and they look lovely
making leaf prints my kids enjoy collecting them then getting messy with the paints
playdough modelling. so many possibilities.
Collecting and pressing leaves. Also my nephew is at the age where he loves collecting conkers!
leaf painting 🙂
love going out collecting leaves,conkers,twigs etc and enjoying all the autumnal changes then creating collages,leaf printing etc.x
collecting leafs and drawing/painting with them.
I love to create collages with leaves and I also like collecting pine cones to make little characters.
we love making cards together, a personal touch for birthdays
our favourite crafting is making lots and lots of dangly spiders out of whatever materials we can find to hang everywhere
Leaf printing and making halloween and bonfire themed crafts.
It’s nice to do seasonal activities as it allows children to have good memories of seasonal events x
painting using pine cones and leafs
Building things out of sticks – takes so much imagination
Making windchimes from sticks, leaves and shells
a walk in the woods to collect materials for collages
Kicking through autumn leaves with my two boys
We like doing anything with autumn leaves, last year we made lanterns and garlands with them.
Leaf paining is great fun
Leaf rubbing with crayons is great!
I love making leaf hedgehogs with my kids… It’s so much fun to go out collecting the leaves to be able to make the hedgehogs ourselves 🙂
painting colourful leaves
We love making Christmas decorations in the Autumn in preparation for decorating our home ready for the festive season! We love making paperchains, glittery fairies, scented pomanders, we dry fruits and place them on strings to make little hanging decorations and garlands, we make cinammon stick decorations and Christmas crackers!
painting leaves 🙂
we love painting leaves and making pa tternsand pine cones for xmas decorations
Doing leaf rubbings and painting conkers!
I love Baking, it also keeps you warm in the kitchen
we love making art from the coloured leaved because the colours are so beautiful x
I love going on a scavenger hunt with my girl, and finding interesting leaves or pine cones etc, then getting home and making an autumn collage! I also love leaf printing!
playdough. they use it in amazing ways
we love painting and it’s good to do in the poor weather
Autumn leaf rubbings and painting