Subscription Box Showdown: How KiwiCo, Green Kid Crafts and Kids Art Box Stack Up

Parents love subscription boxes for good reason - there's nothing quite like the excitement of a package arriving with everything you need for a creative afternoon with your kids. But with options ranging from $24-48 a month, parents need to think carefully about what kits are going to be best for their families.

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Finding Family Inspiration

It can be hard to inspire ourselves to find the time to plan, create, and clean up after creative pursuits for our children. Therefore, it’s important to find the ideas that inspire you as a family. Here are a few ideas on how to get those creative energies flowing in ways that everyone will enjoy and that will motivate children to continue creating on their own.

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day means a little more to me this year as a founder launching her very own brand. I’m proud of my accomplishments. I’m proud of how far America has come in just a few short years as women lead the post-pandemic recovery. But there’s more work to do to achieve entrepreneurial equity.

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The GlueStick ABCDEs: Art, Building, Craft, Design, and Engineering with kids

Whether it's a paper collage, a hemp necklace, or a Lego set, novice crafters take instructions from a mentor, follow them to learn basic skills, then find the confidence to forge their own creations. These experiences are critically important. Creating something from scratch builds self-esteem, teaches the value of trial and error, of hard work, patience, diligence, and attention to detail. The things we make as kids make us the adults we grow to be. That's why the language around how and what we encourage kids to make matters.

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Cooking Up Kids Crafts

Kids are more successful when creative time and space are structured like a restaurant. From setting up a dedicated crafting space to ensuring all supplies are in place, we'll show you how approaching projects the way chefs think about recipes can help the whole family make more projects, and memories, together.

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