It’s always an exciting day when we find a Kids Night In subscription box sitting by our front door and oh how we loved last month’s theme- Under the Sea! The theme topics vary so greatly that each month is truly a surprise, and I really love that each box has some sort of educational concept to it. Have you seen next month's theme? It's called Common Bonds and looks like it is going to be a great one, click here if you’d like to give it a try and get yours delivered, you won’t be disappointed! (Cutoff for this particular box is Sept. 13th.)
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What’s Inside?
night in itinerary*
book related to topic – Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle
package of Goldfish Giant Grahams
2 fish themed masks
sticker sheet
glue stick
permanent marker
washable markers
paper cup
tissue paper squares
watercolor palette
2 water color papers
2 drawing papers
sea life yoga book
Sea Themed Menu
Shells and Pearls Mac n Cheese
Fish Bowl Punch
Naturally, the first thing from this box that my kids went for were the masks. They were especially excited that one of the masks looked like Dory! These masks went great with the Spotify playlist for the kids to dance and swim around to.
One of the main activities was drawing and painting a watercolor seahorse, just like the seahorse in the included Eric Carle book. In the itinerary, there were step by step drawing directions which would be very helpful and could be done solo for older kids, but since my kids are itty bitty I did help them…more so my 2.5-year-old who gets very scribble happy. Once the seahorse outline is drawn, we used the tissue paper to “watercolor” it. This works by placing the tissue paper on the seahorse, and painting water across them. You remove the tissue paper and the color from the tissue paper transfers to the white paper! You can tear the tissue paper squares to make the colors mix a little more, and although we had done a tissue paper watercolor activity before, the colors didn’t quite spread like I had hoped but they still turned out really cute!
While those were placed to the side to dry, the kids used watercolor paint to create an underwater scene on the other paper, we would later cut out and glue the seahorses to this! The included washable markers were used to decorate the seahorse a little more after it was dry. I loved how different they turned out and each kid had their own styles to painting, my oldest painted extra fish in the background and my youngest was all about using a rainbow of colors. I think I might frame them to go in their nautical themed bathroom!
Not only does the itinerary have the recipes for the themed menu and directions for activities, it also has useful information and extra little activities, like using the included stickers to decorate an ocean scene. Seriously, the simplest activity but what kid doesn’t go crazy for stickers?! I cut the sticker sheet in half, so my boys could go crazy without fighting over them, ha!
One of my favorite aspects of the Kids Night In box is that it ALWAYS includes a book related to the topic. So far, they have all been great books by known authors. The included book with this box was Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle, this was the inspiration behind the watercolor activity. Eric Carle is known for his great stories and colorful pages, we really loved this read and I am excited to add it to the bookshelf!
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*I received this Kid’s Night In box for free in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own. This post DOES contain affiliate links, which means if you click on them and purchase your own Night In Box using the links posted, I may make a commission.
