Earlier in the year, I wrote about the August Sibling Box for Wild & Willow. I’ve only really been writing about one of each of these activity subscription boxes until now, but there’s a solid reason for breaking that habit. The Wild & Willow October box was absolutely brilliant.
To be doubley honest with you, I nearly wrote about it last month because it had a fantastic, simple idea in there which revolved around conkers. You took the conkers, wrapped them up in tissue paper and then threw them as missiles. Conker Comets was the name, and it was incredibly simple but a really, really smart idea… especially when schools (and workplaces, I’m sure) tend to look down upon the classic lunchtime conker fights.
The October box actually looked quite light when first opened. There were less crafting activities in there than previous months, and there was visibly less produce and flowers sachets in there. That’s understandable, really, because it’s getting into the colder months now and there isn’t much hardy flora to be included now.
What it did contain, however, was very cool. Similar to the Chia Pet trend, there was a ‘grass head’ craft, complete with grass seeds. Some pansy seeds were included as well, and there was also a simple, but very cool, guide to making a glue-pasted bowl from leaves. The ‘Grass Head’ didn’t actually have an instructions card with it, instead they were stuck onto the back of the little bags and, I’ve got to admit, left me a little confused until I’d poked out the bottom of the bag to make it stand up. Still, the children quite enjoyed this (although, as ever, the sibling box only contains enough for two, and I have three), and I’m sure that Pancake will enjoy the barley grass that grows as a result.
As you’ve probably noticed by now, we enjoy cooking a lot. The kit comes with a really handy, child-friendly ‘Spotter’s guide to British Fungi’ as well as a recipe card for a really hearty sounding mushroom soup. I’m definitely partial to mushroom soup, however, we’ve not managed to make this one yet what with the major focus on Halloween that we’re currently doing.
So, on that note, my favourite bit of the kit this month. Once again, it’s another very simple craft, and we were already perfectly set up for it because we’ve been doing these for a couple of months. Every subscription box where you’re planting seeds recommends that you use egg cartons, so we’ve been stocking them up. This craft has you turn the old egg cartons into bats and spiders.
It was really simple, but also really fun, and the kids had a really great time making them – we even made a little ‘web’ for them to live in as part of our Halloween decorations.
As you can probably tell, this month’s Wild & Willow box went from being one that I was quite concerned about to be the favourite so far. It’s gone done really well with the kids and I’m really glad that we subscribe to this when I think back to the fun that they had while we were using it.
This post is apart of our Blogtober series, all with a Halloween or Autumn theme.
This looks like a really fun box. What a great idea x
This box is a fun one!