Hola chicos, if you are regular reader of my blog you will know that I have 2 girls, Bella who is 5 years old and Sienna who is 16 months. They are really active kids and it can be difficult to keep them entertained. I’m really bad at craft but my girls love doing this type of thing so I was really desperate to find some crafting ideas in order to entertain my girls. Whilst searching online I came across a subscription service called Toucan Box. I like subscription boxes (I have a beauty one that I absolutely love) but I always want to be sure that I’m happy with them before I commit to a monthly payment. Toucan Box were offering a first box for free as a trial so I thought: Lets give it a try!! Why not, right?
We received our first trial box which had Bella’s name on it so you can imagine how happy our little cheeky monkey was when she saw it, LOL! So, what is Toucan Box? It is a craft box delivered fortnightly aimed at 3 – 8 year olds, so this box is really perfect for Bella although Sienna was happy to be involved too. As you read before, it comes personalised with your child’s name which is always a cute idea! Each box contains a unique craft project.
Inside each box you will find all the materials you need to build a fantastic craft project with your little one. Also you will find illustrated and easy to follow instructions. It also has suggestions for more exciting craft ideas. The box that we received was called ‘Treasure Map & Parrot Partner’ where we had to create a treasure map and a cute parrot.
Daddy is very good with these kind of activities so he helped Bella with this craft (as I mentioned before I’m not very good at it although if I make an effort I’m sure I will be able to help Bella as the whole box is very easy to follow). I did a video of them which I enjoyed filming and also it was great to see how much fun they were all having!! Including little Sienna!! ha ha.
When we subscribed we got our first craft box for free and then we had a whole 7 days to cancel our account after our box had been dispatched if we were unhappy. We were happy so we kept the subscription. Normally this box costs £3.95 (+£0.98 postage) per fortnightly delivery.
They have 3 different subscriptions: Petit (which is the one we received), Grande (£9.95 + £2.99 postage per month) or Super (£16.99 + £2.95 postage per month).
Petite Box contains:
- All the materials for an exciting activity
- Personally addressed to your child
- Developed by educational experts
- Delivered straight to your letterbox
- Illustrated, easy to follow instruction booklet
- Stickers to collect and claim free gifts
- A new theme every two weeks
Grande Box contains:
- All the materials for 2 exciting activities
- A book to share together
- Personally addressed to your child
- Developed by educational experts
- Delivered straight through your letterbox
- Illustrated, easy to follow instruction booklet
- A parent card with more ideas and inspiration
- Stickers to collect and claim free gifts
- Add extra materials for a sibling for just £4.95
- A new theme every month
Super Box contains:
- All the materials for 4 exciting activities
- A book to share together
- Personally addressed to your child
- Developed by educational experts
- Delivered straight through your letterbox
- Illustrated, easy to follow instruction booklet
- A parent card with more ideas and inspiration
- Stickers to collect and claim free gifts
- Add extra materials for a sibling for just £9.95
- A new theme every month
Along the way I came across the people from Toucan Box and I told them about my video and that I was planning to do a review on my blog so they were very grateful for that and offered me 2 things:
- A discount code for all my lovely readers to get the first box for free like me! They created a unique code for my blog so I can share with all of you. The code is franca1. What you need to do is simply visit HERE and enter the code “franca1” to claim your first Petite subscription box for free! Isn’t it great? I’m sure you will love it! This is a great way to try this box first.
- If that is not enough, the lovely people at Toucan Box are being so kind and have given us the opportunity to run a Giveaway!! Yaay!! I love Giveaways and I’m sure you do too!! For more details of the Giveaway please check the bottom of this post.
As I mentioned before I recorded my lovely family having a go at this craft activity. So please see the video below:
My Opinion:
- I think this is a great product which will help parents like me that don’t have enough imagination to come up with your own craft ideas (it sounds like I have no imagination whatsoever lol, but you know what I mean!!).
- It creates a nice and fun moment to get involved with your kids and it is very easy to follow the instructions.
- Your children are entertained for at least an hour or two! For me that is a plus.
- I like that they are very flexible with their subscription so you upgrade, downgrade or cancel your subscription at any time.
- I think from all 3 options I would go for the Grande Box option as receiving a box once a month is better than receiving a box every 2 weeks. It comes with 2 activities in 1.
- I guess some people will say that it could be pricy but for me £9.95 + postage per month is perfect if I will get everything that I need in order to keep my kids happy and entertained.
- I’m sure that subscription boxes are not for everybody but for those people that like them I will recommend this box as it is really good value for money.
You can find Toucan Box on Facebook and Twitter, Instagram and you can also browse around their boards on Pinterest.
GIVEAWAY
If you are looking for some craft ideas and would like to get all of these ideas and materials inside one box and receive it through your letterbox you have come to the correct place as this Giveaway is just perfect for you! You can win 3 months Toucan Box Petite subscription for free which is a total of 6 boxes that you will receive fortnightly. How fantastic is that? I’m sure your kids would love these boxes! In order to have a chance to win these boxes you just need to enter the giveaway below. Good luck!
Win 3 months Toucan Box Petite subscription (total of 6 boxes)
*Terms & Conditions: Open to UK & Ireland residents. One winner will win 3 months Toucan Box Petite subscription (6 boxes). This prize will be provided by Toucan Box directly. A Moment With Franca blog is not responsible for the delivery of these boxes. Giveaway closes on Friday 22nd January 2016 at midnight. The winner will have 48 hours to respond once notification is sent.
Have you heard of Toucan Boxes before? Have you tried one of their trial boxes? Are you into Art & Craft? Do you like doing craft activities with your kids? Will this box be something that you would try with your kids? Leave a comment below as I would love to hear your opinion.
*Disclaimer: We bought this subscription box and we also subscribed to it. Toucan Box only is being involved with the trial code and the giveaway. All of this explanation is my honest opinion. Some photos were provided by them.
Thanks for stopping by,
Love you all ❤️
Franca 💋
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Looks nice for my sisters child.
Great! Good luck! 🙂 x
I love crafts and regularly colour, do cross stitch, tapestry work and felting! I have always a few projects on the go. I also love making and creating with my children – we love to make collages, cards and do printing. I am also tteaching my girls how to sew XXX
That is great!! You are a very crafty person! Thanks for entering this giveaway. Good luck! 🙂 x
I have seen them online before and think its a great idea.
They are really great!! Good luck! 🙂 x
These look so, so good! I’m definitely going to keep these in mind for when Evie is older. What a creative idea. I love how much is included too. x
Yes Chloe they are great especially when you run out of imagination or you are just not feeling your best so it is easy to follow! 🙂 x
I love doing arts and crafts with my nieces. We pretty much do something every weekend. We play ‘crafts’ and do anything from cutting, painting and gluing loo rolls to making matchcraft robots. I even have painted nails, not my choice, and I’m a 41 year old bloke. We’ve never heard of Toucan Boxes before but they sound right up our street.
Oh wow you really like having so much fun with your nieces!! I love it!! That is the spirit! My hubby is also like that. He just let the girls do anything to him!! Lol like for example make up!! Lol Thanks for entering this giveaway. Good luck! 🙂 x
I had a free trial box for my daughter about 6 months ago. She was only 2 1/2 years but quite into crafty things so I thought I’d give it a try. I got a box with a flower theme, and already when I looked at it, I realised that it would be too difficult for her. So I unsubscribed and put the trial box in a drawer.
At that point, I wasn’t so convinced that I would ever subscribe again either. I’m reasonably crafty and I always had the vision of making up projects for her myself. Really, who was I kidding?
About a week ago, full of cold and lacking energy to come up with anything to do with a bored nearly 3 year old I remembered the toucan box in the drawer and it totally saved the day. We made the project and that lead to a few other ideas and we spent a good two hours crafting happily!
I have now decided to give toucan box a proper try and have subscribed. Still waiting for the first box but looking forward to it.
It would be so amazing to win this giveaway as it’s just the right time!
I’m glad to hear that the Toucan Box saved your day!! Phew!! Great that you remembered that you had it in your drawer! Thanks for entering this giveaway and I wish you good luck! 🙂 x
my boys absolutely love crafts. lovely to bond over and create something themselves on a rainy weekend
It is just perfect to do crafts on a rainy days. That is why these boxes are so handy! Thanks for entering this giveaway. Good luck! 🙂 x
Youngest grandson loves his crafts, he’s only 3 so makes a mess but it keeps him occupied
Crafts are great for that!! Good luck! 🙂 x
Just finished making a replica of Henry the VIII’s imperial crown with my 9 year old. It was a competition project for school
That sounds amazing!! Well done!! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 xx
We love doing arty stuff in our house anything from baking to painting junk modelling ….you name it we will give it a go!
Perfect!! Good luck! 🙂 x
we love doing seasonal crafts 🙂
That is great! Good luck! 🙂 xx
I love crafty things but I seriously lack ideas. These look great!
Same here so these boxes come to the rescue!! Lol Thanks for entering this giveaway. Good luck! 🙂 xx
This is such a cool subscription service! I’ve never heard of Toucan Box but I’m loving it. My kids really enjoy crafts. They would be delighted to receive something new to create every two weeks like this. I’ll enter the giveaway & fingers crossed!! x
Yaayy!! Thank you for entering!!! Those boxes are super fan and you will get 6 boxes for free!! Fingers crossed for you!! 🙂 xxx
Have you heard of Toucan Boxes before? No.
Have you tried one of their trial boxes? Not yet but will do now.
Are you into Art & Craft? No but my hubby/son’s dad is.
Do you like doing craft activities with your kids? Yes it keeps them busy and hey enjoy it.
Will this box be something that you would try with your kids? I think it’s a great idea, especially this time of the year when you can’t get out so much.
That is great that you will give them a go!! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 x
Yes heard of them before! We love doing arts and crafts but never know what to make, or never have all the right things, so this would be perfect! My sons would be chuffed!
Your son would love. He will have so much fun! Good luck! 🙂 x
I can be – but I have to be in the right mood for it! 😉
I know what you mean! I’m the same! X
This looks like something Sylvia would love as she is really into arts and crafts at the moment. It’s also something we could do together when i’m sick in bed.
Thanks for sharing.
Angela from Daysinbed
She would definitely love it Angela!! These boxes are so much fun and really easy to follow!! 🙂 xx
We love doing arts and crafts – at christmas we did lots – making christmas cards and crackers, we also got sew your own gingerbread sets which were fun!
Oh that sounds super fun!! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 x
I’m not very crafty my sister is though
We tried the free box then a few after that. I loved it but Mini M struggled a little bit, it is aimed at children older than him so I think we will look at it again when he’s the suitable age xx
Yes I think they need to be olther otherwise they get bored. Hopefully you he would like it again when is a little bit older! Thanks for commenting lovely, 🙂 x
Ahhh i lve your blogs!thiss looks amazing would be grat to do with the whole family for family time!
Aww thank you!! That is so nice of you! Yes it is really fun! Thank you for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 x
We are quite crafty and make Birthday cards, collages and paintings xx
That sounds awesome!! I’m sure you will love these boxes! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good Luck! 🙂 x
Myself and my daughter love anything crafty…we especially like painting and making things out of fimo clay ,its fab therapy x
That is great and lot of fun! You would have so much fun with these boxes! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 x
Now my grandsons are that little bit older we are just starting to do crafts together x
That is lovely!! Good luck! 🙂 x
I’m not particularly crafty but my eldest son loves anything to do with craft and art he loves to draw especially xx
You are like me then! Lol This is why I love these boxes! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 x
We love making hand paintings then turning them into animals xx
That sounds great! Good luck! 🙂 x
love card making
Great! Good luck! 🙂 x
Thank you for this review. I’ve seen these boxes advertised and have been wondering if they would be a god idea. My daughter is very crafty and it is quite hard to keep DIYing ideas of things for her to make. I agree the bigger box once a month would be better than the smaller one fortnightly. I’ll definitely check it out.
Yes they are great and it can help you when you are just not in the mood for thinking too much and run out of ideas!! You get the first one free with the codecif you fancy trying them first. Thanks for commenting Sarah! 🙂 x
This looks like a really cool service, thanks for letting us know about it, I hadn’t head of it before! Becky x
I knew that you would like it as you are great at crafting!! 🙂 xx
I LOVE crafting, as you probably know, but I rarely include the boys, I reckon I am going to give this subscription a go! I would love to spend time with Ellis creating fun things he is proud of! Thank for the review Franca! xx
These boxes are great. I’m sure you will have lots of fun with Ellis! The projects are fantastic! Glad you like the teview! Thanks for commenting lovely! 🙂 xx
Super crafty they love making cards the most
It sounds that these boxes will be perfect for you! Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 xx
I love crafting and so does my son. We do lots of painting and sticking and junk modelling. Friends & family always love to receive homemade cards from him
That sounds fantastic!! You will have fun doing these projects with your son. Thanks for entering this giveaway! Good luck! 🙂 xx
This looks great, my children love art and crafts.
I’m glad you like it!! Good luck! 🙂 xx
This looks brilliant. I have heard of this subscription before but never really looked into it. It’s definitely something that we’ll think about getting for Rowan when he’s a little older.
It’s a great price too.
Laura x
Glad you like it Laura! It is a lot of fun! Thanks for commenting lovely! 🙂 x
I am far from it, but my husband is, we didnt have a christmas tree one year so he made one out of coathangers and nobody noticed
We are always crafting new creations in our house. Its our way of recycling.
I enjoy making things. I’ve just done a batch of rag quilts for Christmas presents
I like ve to do crochet and cross stitch
I love craft and get up to all sorts with my daughter. We are always making something or doing some cooking etc.
i’m not very arty or crafty and always looking for help/ideas for my children
im not a very crafty person but i do like to do baking and making things with my little granddaughter
We enjoy painting
allsorts, we like to use up our empty plastic bottles and packaging in general in some crafty way, from making our own money boxes, bowling pins etc. My kids also love a cardboard box, they make them into cars,trains,houses and dolly beds.
My 6 year old would LOVE this – she’s very in to arts and crafts (I’m like you – totally artistically challenged!) I’ve entered 🙂 x
Oh if you are like me you will find this boxes super useful! And they are so easy to follow their instructions! 🙂 xx
i love crafts we enjoy making clay models
we love all making a doing from baking to painting and beading to making miniature gardens
Fab giveaway! I love crafting and we have also used Toucan in the past which E loved. It’s great to see that they have now introduced different sized boxes as when we did it it was a monthly box only. x
my son likes painting, but its so messy – so we only do that just before bath time! Otherwise we make shapes and glue feathers on and things like that
I love anything crafty I have a A level in fine art so try to do as much craft with my son as possible. Mostly painting and making mosaic pictures.
I’m very crafty, at the moment we like to draw and make paper cuttings and colour them in 🙂
we love crafts, nothing to adventurous at the moment though but that will most likely chance and my little ones get older. We enjoy colouring, painting and baking
I’ve never heard of them but it looks like a fab product and a decent price too! It looks perfect to get children involved with crafts 🙂
Gemma xx
I like to sew and revamp my old clothes and I also like to knit
We like making birthday cards
We do all sorts of crafts from making jewelry to knitting
I’m really crafty and am hoping my daughter gets more into it. She currently likes Play Doh, painting, and stickers.
To be honest I’ve never been really good at the crafty type stuff so something like this would be such a good idea for me to do with my son 🙂
We like painting. It can get messy but it’s lots of fun.
Being creative with children is really important. We make all sorts of art and have just begun to try paper mache.
I am not particularly crafty myself but enjoy helping my grandchildren with their projects.
I’m not that crafty but I do try some easy projects with my little girl as she really enjoys it.
I love crafting have done since I was a kid. My boy loves to craft too. He loves sticking & painting the best but will have a go at anything, which I love 😀 x
What a lovely idea. Just absolutely love this Toucan Box xxx
I think I could be more crafty if I put my mind to it. I think it would be something I would enjoy.
We like to do anything involving sticking with glue and sellotape, my 4 year old is obsessed
We like sewing clothes and beddings for her little toys 🙂
I’m not very crafty but I enjoy baking with the kids 🙂
I am not crafty but my mum is and always brings crafty things for my kids to do that are left over from the toddler groups she does it for. My daughter loves painting and sticking x
We like to make badges with our badge making kit
I try to be creative with my kids but we always end up in a mess!! Somehow we always get glitter everywhere! But my kids love it 🙂
I really struggle with crafty things. My son is three and loves building train tracks. I would love to get him into stuff like this but dont know where to start.
I like to stick the plain side of wall paper down with tape all over the kitchen table and put on bowls of paint ,glue ,magazines to cut up , potato stamps and crafty bits and pieces ie glitter , polysterene S’s and natural bits and bobs and leave the children to make a frieze which is then stuck up in the hall way for all to see.
I love doing craft activities with my partners sons when they come to stay with us, one of our favourite crafts is to make a pretend cooked breakfast out of either coloured plasticine or better still marzipan coloured with food colouring so they can eat their creations afterwards
I would like to be more crafty with my kids 🙂
I love making hair accessories for my 2 little girls – headbands, hair clips, bows etc. I also make tutus
I’m really crafty 😉 I love making things, upcycling things and just getting stuck in to a project. With Drake I do lots of chalk and painting and gluing! as he is 5 and can be trusted (most of the time) not to stick it up his nose or eat it! With H who is just over 2 we do some crafts but she has to be watched constantly so we tend to do ore colouring. This xmas we did a special design our own wrapping paper for important peoples gifts (ie nanny lol) we just got some plain brown parcel paper and some water paints and did foot and hand prints in brown and when they dried I added details to make them into turkeys and reindeer. They loved doing it and it looked pretty effective too
How perfect, my 3 would love this..even my” tweenager”..just don’t tell anyone! Your girls had fun! You wouldn’t want to wait for a rainy day to try this would you?
We like making things that the children can keep and admire their work.
I’m not terribly crafty or artistic but I would love to win this for my grand-daughter.My daughter is an artist and it looks like little Millie is going to follow in her footsteps,even at three when you normally only get a blob when they’re painting we have head,body,arms,hands,eyes mouths and hair ! When I’m doing things with her it’s always baking which she enjoys and I’m not too bad at that !
We like painting and drawing and we make cards
I love doing crafty stuff and science experiments with my children – OI get my inspiration from online and books but the Toucanbox looks ideal!
My dayghters loves arts and crafts so fingers crossed at our house!
Lovely blog too,well laid out,attractive and interesting
I’m not crafty in the slightest but my nearly 3 year old loves making things so i’m always looking for new ideas of things to do with her!
We all love crafting in this house! great for rainy days!
I love doing crafty things with my little one xx
We love doing Painting prints 😀
I look after my two little granddaughters and we spend loads of time drawing, painting, Sticking, making things and have lots of fun together. My house is constantly covered in paint, glue, glitter and sequins!
I love doing crafty things with my nieces so much fun!