Green Kid Crafts Subscription Box Review – Sept 2014

My 6 year old and I attempted to do the October box . He did not like it and put the items back in the box and asked me to toss it. We could not get the catapault to work well, and he hated dressing pegs with square pieces of cloth. A different type of child would had enjoyed that, but not him. He was frustrated because we could never get the catapult to work right to do the catapult game.

I emailed them to cancel. I had to double up out which annoyed me because my first email was clear that I was canceling. Also, what happens if you miss that second email where you need to respond that you do want to cancel? This sub is geared towards children and it is easy to be distracted by your children and forget to finish/respond to an email especially if there are little ones. The last thing that annoyed me is that they talked about upcoming boxes which are ones I already received. In other words they did not change their message template and sent me old information.

I would had been opened to giving them feedback why we canceled. I think double-opt out is a poor business practice. I told them I would not recommend them to a parent looking for a sub for that reason.

I subscribed to this for my three year old for three months. It has probably been about 9 months since my last box. I was so disappointed with the quality of this box, probably because I had previously subscribed to Kiwi Crate. Out of three months there was one project that was really great. The rest were literally “green” copies of prior Kiwi Crate projects. It really seemed like they subscribed to Kiwi Crate and designed “green” versions of the same products. And sadly the materials were just not of the same high quality.

I like the idea of environmentally conscious, but not enough to sacrifice the quality. We went back to Kiwi Crate and have loved every minute of it.

Hopefully by now they have really dug in and upped the experience. Like I said, my experience was a while ago so I don’t know how it is now.

I receive this subscription box for my nearly turned 6 year old. The sub is for ages 3-10. The cutoff date for the October box is Sept 30th. I don’t know how to include the picture of the October box and will email it to Liz if she wants to include it. Here’s the body of the email.

Last call for October’s Legends & Folktales Box! This box is full of activities that will promote the emotional and imaginative development of kids. Your kings and queens will create their own Storytelling Kit, Design wearable Crowns, and have a blast hurling projectiles around the room after making their own Catapult. The order cut-off for this box is 9/30/14.

Hi Liz,
What age does this box cater to? My little one is 2.5. So I’m wondering if they have activities for her age.

Thanks for your help.