Friday, June 8, 2018

Flintobox review : Box-1 : World Traveller theme

Since I could see many actvity boxes in markets for keeping your child busy , I just browsed over a few of them and I  ordered for flintobox 3 months subscription which I got at a price of Rs. 695 per box, there was some offer going on and this was the reduced price. A total of 3 boxes cost me around Rs. 2200 including the delivery charges.
My child is of the age group 4-8 years. The first box I received was based on World Traveller Theme.
When I opened the box I found the following items:
  • craft - Flag of the world
  • Conceptual - World traveller Map
  • skills  - Map trotter
  • learning - passport
  • Book - Continent toss 
In flags of the world, kids had to make flags of 4 countries . The items provided were :

  • Fabric base
  • Colourful Felt stickers
  • string
  • Hooks

On the Fabric base kids have to stick felt stickers which were pre-cut in shapes required to make the flags. Children have to stick each piece by looking at the flags picture. My child was able to do all by himself. There had to make flags Japan, China , France and Brazil. Then they have to string the flags and they can hang it in their room.
I felt my child learn many things from this activity like names of different countries, flags as representation of a county , Why a flag is required by the country. Then it involved fine motors too in activities like sticking the sticker and stringing the flags. It developed his sensory skills too as the material provided was of different textures.

The next activity was map trotter, the items included for this were :

  • World Map
  • Game Cards
  • Game boards
  • Game chops
  • Clothespin
  • Foam Stickers
  • Landmark & Travellers
On the world map kids have to stick all the landmarks using foam stickers. Then attach a traveller to a clothespin . Now they have to pick one game card and mark their traveller at the landmark which was specified in the game card and place a game chips over the landmark covered on game board.
The second player also precedes the same way.  A player wins when four game chips form a sequence horizontally, vertically or diagonally. 






Now in the Continent Toss activity the items included were:

  • Continent game boards
  • Stands
  • Continent Cards
  • Soft ball
Kids have to first attach stands on Continent game boards. Each player has to stand at a distance and throw the soft ball through one of the continents.  Then they have to pick out a card of  that continent and read facts about that continent. The player with the highest number of cards wins. This game enhances the child's gross motor skills when child exercises their arms and legs, while aiming and throwing the soft ball.  It also improve hand-eye coordination and concentration , when child aims and throws in the hole in the game board. It also teaches them sporty spirit. 

Overall the world traveller flintobox was a wonderful experience of  playing and learning together for my child.


















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