Summer is upon us! Actually I can hardly believe we are so far into July already. For the kids in our area school has been out for about a month. Many of the children in our town do not attend summer camps or day camps, so the parents and kids are looking for fun things to do to keep busy. My Giant Busy Box by ALEX has been a awesome addition to our summer. 

After trying to gather up my own ideas, believe me I do have a ton after being a teacher for twenty years. But, it’s always nice to have someone do the job for you. This kit from ALEX is amazing. Honestly I have never seen a kit so put together. It has everything, yes everything, you need to get the job done! This particular kit has enough supplies in it to complete sixteen different craft projects. As if having ALL of the supplies is not enough, the directions are simple! You look at the paper and follow the directions. No words! So, if you are doing this with a non-reader it’s a piece of cake. You child will feel so accomplished after each of the crafts. I absolutely LOVE this kit! 

Some of the crafts Emily has created so far are the cow and frog hand puppets. They were fun and included gluing with a glue stick, stickers and rolling the paper tongue on a pencil. When she was done, there was a puppet show! So doing the craft alone is great but getting to play with it is even more fun!

Another craft she created was the sticker pizza! It was simply a creative sticker work of art. The plain pizza came with a ton of different stickers to create your own pizza. Even though she likes her pizza plain, she topped it with olives, mushrooms, cheese, pepperoni, anchovies and more! This particular craft came with its own frame and even a place to write your name on the frame. Talk about feeling accomplished.

Some of the other activities include making molded dough animals, collage a farm and sticker art. Besides paper bag puppets there is also tissue art, animal punch outs, bright dough colors, peel and stick tissue art pictures, google eyes, pipe cleaners, crayons, glue sticks, clay dough, and more. 

What I love the most about this kit is that it makes your child feel so proud about completing the task!

They can use their artistic freedom and creativity! Bravo, ALEX! This is an amazing kit! I would recommend it to anyone with children 3+. We loved it and cannot wait to complete all sixteen activities!