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September 11, 2014September 11, 2014

Ten Popular Apple Activities for Fall

Ten Favorite Fall Theme Apple Activities for the Whole Family

We love Fall because it’s the perfect time to take advantage of delicious, organic apples. Here are some of our favorite apple-themed recipes, activities, games and crafts for you and your family to enjoy this Fall season!

Easy Crock-Pot Applesauce
Children will have so much fun seeing exactly what steps go into making one of their favorite snacks!

Healthy Apple Treats
Apple slices are much more exciting when they’re shaped into fun shapes. Kids love this tasty yogurt dip too!

Apple Sandwiches
Boring sandwiches be gone! Try this yummy and toddler approved twist on the regular sandwich. Image c/o Whole Foods.

Paper Plate Apples
Try making different apple shapes from paper plates, You can make red apples, green apples, apple cores…the possibilities are endless.

Apple-Themed Sensory Bin
This is one of the most detailed and fun sensory bins we’ve seen. It’s a toddler favorite!

Apple Pillows
Make these apple pillows out of paper grocery bags for a fruity fall decoration or even use in an apple toss game.

Apple Toss Board
Make an easy corn hole board from a presentation board from any office supply store.

Apple Seed Stars
Use paper apples and real apple seeds to replicate the star pattern found inside of apples. Create fall decor or even practice your child’s counting skills.

Baked Apple Chips
The perfect Fall treat! No added sugar, great apple flavor and fun ring shapes, what more could you ask for?

Spiral Apple Bread with Carmel Apple Glaze
On the opposite side of the spectrum, this decadent treat makes a great Fall dessert that the whole family will enjoy.

September 4, 2014

Quick, Easy and Healthy Breakfasts

Are you finding it hard to make your kids a healthy breakfast in the morning? With the getting ready for school rush, somethings get bumped back on the priority scale. Grabbing a breakfast bar to eat in the car on the way to school, just isn’t going to cut it! So we’ve gathered a few of our favorite quick, easy and healthy breakfast recipes to help you stay on schedule on hectic school-day mornings!

Egg Funny Faces
A great way to involve your children in the kitchen. Making healthy food choices and learning about food will benefit them in so many ways. This egg dish is such a great one to do on a Sunday and have an easy healthy breakfast ready to go all week.

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No-Cook Oatmeal
My children love to help me cook, so no-cook recipes are wonderful when I can find a good one that they love too. This oatmeal is so easy to prepare and to have ready to go all week for those hectic mornings. A bonus is that they have fun preparing it and eating it; healthy choices start now!

Breakfast Banana Pops
Bananas, oats and yogurt make this a healthy and FUN way to eat your oatmeal in the mornings. Kids will love making and eating these banana pops!

Fruit and Yogurt Parfait
Parfaits aren’t just for dessert anymore! Picky eaters will enjoy the option of adding their favorite fruits to their morning meal.

Egg in Clouds
This easy egg recipe looks like the sun sitting in a bed of clouds. Kids will have fun using their imagination with this creative way to eat your eggs in the morning!

Breakfast Quinoa Bowl
Forgot about your old, tired bowl of oatmeal! Quinoa, a super grain has so many good nutrients for your growing little ones.

Apple Cider Pancakes
The name says it all! This is a great recipe for fall. You and your kids will love the taste of apple cider in your breakfast.

Wholesome Breakfast Crepes
Sometimes you just need something fabulous for breakfast. Crepes with favorite trimmings–cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, favorite jam, berries (and maybe even some from the garden!)–They’ll become a family favorite!

Egg In the Hole
Use differently shaped cookie cutters to kick your typical egg and toast breakfast up a notch!

Breakfast Burritos
Anything wrapped up like a burrito is more fun and appeal to kids, wouldn’t you agree? Have them choose their ingredients and they can help you wrap up these easy-to-transport healthy handfuls.

September 2, 2014September 23, 2014

Sneak Peek: Introducing September’s Theme!

September is the first month in our new Time Traveler series! The theme this month is Castles + Catapults. We hope these historical themed projects will inspire children to learn more about the exciting medieval age and the renaissance era! Your child will learn all about family crests and what life was like for people living in medieval castles and villages. They’ll even experiment making their own colorful paints from fruits and vegetables.

The first project you’ll design and construct your own castle. Then customize it with felt and stickers. You can even decorate your castle characters and go on an adventure!

In the second project you can build your own catapult and test your aim with a target! Feel free to experiment with the angle of your catapult to make it fire higher or farther.

Extend the fun with the explore! magazine, where you can learn all about the Middle Ages, the time of castles, kings and brave knights. Follow along with Steve while he defends a castle and learn how to draw your own castle. You’ll find directions on how to make your own royal crown, stained glass and your customized family crest, just to name a few.

Kiwi Crate Library
Read even more about the dragons, castles, knights and kings these popular books:

The Knight and the Dragon
by Tomie dePaola
Ages 4+
A funny book that follows the problems with, and eventual alternatives
to, a fight between a shy dragon and an unprepared knight.

King Arthur’s Very Great Grandson
by Kenneth Kraegel
Ages 4+
Well-crafted and engaging, this tales uses detailed illustrations
and enjoyable storytelling to share a young boy’s search for adventure.

Jane and the Dragon
by Martin BayntonAges 4+
A courageous story about a young girl who wants to be
a brave knight, despite mockery from her family and friends.

September 2, 2014September 3, 2014

Sneak Peek: Introducing September’s Theme!

The first project you’ll design and construct your own castle. Then customize it with felt and stickers. You can even decorate your castle characters and go on an adventure!

In the second project you can build your own catapult and test your aim with a target! Feel free to experiment with the angle of your catapult to make it fire higher or farther.

Kiwi Crate Library
Read even more about the dragons, castles, knights and kings these popular books:

The Knight and the Dragon
by Tomie dePaola
Ages 4+
A funny book that follows the problems with, and eventual alternatives
to, a fight between a shy dragon and an unprepared knight.

Jane and the Dragon
by Martin BayntonAges 4+
A courageous story about a young girl who wants to be
a brave knight, despite mockery from her family and friends.

August 27, 2014September 23, 2014

Introducing our Time Traveler Series!

Are your kids back in school yet? The beginning of the school year brings: new classes, new friends and new things to learn. And we’re introducing our newest 3-part crate theme, the Time Traveler series, to correspond with the beginning of the school year. We’ve developed three really interactive and creative themes all centered around traveling back in time. Our crates will be perfect for weekends or after-school family time, and are a great way to encourage learning at home. Your kids will learn all about about past eras and ways of life.

Here’s a little sneak peek :

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SEPTEMBER: CASTLES + CATAPULTS
Learn about family crests and what life was like for people in medieval castles and villages. Experiment making your own colorful paints using fruits and vegetables.

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My Medieval Castle
Design and construct your own castle. Then customize it with felt and stickers. Decorate your castle characters and go on an adventure!

My Launching Catapult
Build your own catapult and test your aim with a target! Experiment with the angle of your catapult to make it fire higher or farther.

OCTOBER: WILD WEST
Learn about different jobs people had in the Wild West, including the adventurous life of a cowboy and his cows, and how to turn an old necktie into a fun, rattling, rattlesnake.

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My Hobby Horse
Make your own stuffed hobby horse. Ride your horse and go on a wild west adventure.

My Cattle Roundup
Make and decorate your own cattle bean bags. Then help Steve wrangle them with a fun bean bag toss game.

NOVEMBER: DISCOVERING DINOSAURS
Explore the world of dinosaurs and learn how paleontologists discover dinosaur bones. Learn how to make dinosaur fossils you can dig up yourself!

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My Dinosaur Fossils
Arrange dinosaur bones into different dinosaur skeletons. Then use clay to make your own dinosaur fossils.

My Dinosaur Dress-Up
Use colorful felt to make your own dinosaur visor and feet. Practice stomping around like a dinosaur or play a game of dinosaur tag.

August 27, 2014September 3, 2014

Introducing our Time Traveler Series!

Here’s a little sneak peek :

Kiwi-Crate-Time-Traveler-Series-Castles-Catapults

My Medieval Castle
Design and construct your own castle. Then customize it with felt and stickers. Decorate your castle characters and go on an adventure!

My Launching Catapult
Build your own catapult and test your aim with a target! Experiment with the angle of your catapult to make it fire higher or farther.

Kiwi-Crate-Time-Traveler-Series-Wild-West

My Hobby Horse
Make your own stuffed hobby horse. Ride your horse and go on a wild west adventure.

My Cattle Roundup
Make and decorate your own cattle bean bags. Then help Steve wrangle them with a fun bean bag toss game.

NOVEMBER: DISCOVERING DINOSAURS
Explore the world of dinosaurs and learn how paleontologists discover dinosaur bones. Learn how to make dinosaur fossils you can dig up yourself!

Kiwi-Crate-Time-Traveler-Series-Dinosaurs

My Dinosaur Fossils
Arrange dinosaur bones into different dinosaur skeletons. Then use clay to make your own dinosaur fossils.

My Dinosaur Dress-Up
Use colorful felt to make your own dinosaur visor and feet. Practice stomping around like a dinosaur or play a game of dinosaur tag.

August 27, 2014September 23, 2014

Introducing our Time Traveler Series!

Here’s a little sneak peek :

Kiwi-Crate-Time-Traveler-Series-Castles-Catapults

My Medieval Castle
Design and construct your own castle. Then customize it with felt and stickers. Decorate your castle characters and go on an adventure!

My Launching Catapult
Build your own catapult and test your aim with a target! Experiment with the angle of your catapult to make it fire higher or farther.

Kiwi-Crate-Time-Traveler-Series-Wild-West

My Hobby Horse
Make your own stuffed hobby horse. Ride your horse and go on a wild west adventure.

My Cattle Roundup
Make and decorate your own cattle bean bags. Then help Steve wrangle them with a fun bean bag toss game.

NOVEMBER: DISCOVERING DINOSAURS
Explore the world of dinosaurs and learn how paleontologists discover dinosaur bones. Learn how to make dinosaur fossils you can dig up yourself!

Kiwi-Crate-Time-Traveler-Series-Dinosaurs

My Dinosaur Fossils
Arrange dinosaur bones into different dinosaur skeletons. Then use clay to make your own dinosaur fossils.

My Dinosaur Dress-Up
Use colorful felt to make your own dinosaur visor and feet. Practice stomping around like a dinosaur or play a game of dinosaur tag.

August 22, 2014September 3, 2014

Free Back to School Printables

Free Back to School Kiwi Crate Printables

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Still not quite organized for back to school? Getting back into the routine of things can be a little daunting, but we’ve made things a little easier on you by creating these easy to use printables! Now you can find all of our helpful Back to School printables all in one place for easy reference.

Peek at the Week Schedule
This little one page schedule with help your kids (and you!) keep things on track for the school week ahead. Download it and enjoy!

Back to School Printable Name Labels
Now that you’ve gathered school supplies, notebook, backpack, and so on…it’s time to label them. We’ve provided you with 8 kiwi labels to make sure your little one comes home with everything, right down to the last pencil! These are great for keeping track of things inside your house, too (and for name-writing practice).

Morning and Bedtime Routine Printables
We created these printable morning and bedtime routines to help kids get out the door to school and daycare…and help wind down for a good night’s sleep. Print them out for every day of the week–or do what we do: drop them in a plastic page protector and let kids cross out the steps in dry-erase marker.

5 day School Lunch Menu
Want an easy 5-day school lunch plan? Here you go! Courtesy of our friends at MOMables, it features 5 days of easy, healthy, prep-ahead school lunches, along with recipes and a shopping list! (Each recipe includes gluten-free options.)

Lunch Love Notes
Finding a special note tucked under a sandwich or apple can prove a sweet surprise, especially for a child who’s suffering first-day jitters.

Printable Story Cards
Looking for a fun way to fuel your kids’ creativity and communication skills? These 30 story starters will stretch their imaginations and help them spin yarns worth weaving!

Draw Your Day Printable Placemats
Weekday dinners can be tough. Have your children help out with dinner by setting the table. They’ll be much more excited about it if they can create their own placemat!

Kiwi Crate Desk Calendar Printable
Give your kids their own personal calendar so they can keep track of the week. Helpful for any young student’s desk at home.

August 13, 2014October 28, 2019

Bring the Fun Back to School

Here are some great Back to School crafts and ideas that we couldn’t help sharing with you. From cupcakes to shrinky dinks, there’s a little something for everyone. Let’s get ready for school time, shall we?

Popsicle Stick Pencil Holder

Making this adorable pencil and pen holder is simple and so easy to customize. Use your kids favorite colors and decorate it with ribbons, stickers or drawing. Adding your child’s name would also be a great idea!

Chalkboard Name Photo Session

This preschool photo session was just too cute to resist. Photographer Ashlee Raubach capture each personality so well. What a great idea to do with your own kids on their first day of school each year.

Combination Lock Bracelet

Help your kids remember their locker or bike lock combination with this useful beaded bracelet. Great to accessorize with at the beginning of the school year and they can just take it off once they have their lock memorized.

Back to School Cupcakes

Oh a good cupcake is so hard to resist! And these back to school themed goodies are extra hard to resist because they’re just too cute. What a fun idea! Why not have fun with back to school time with these celebratory cupcakes from Dukes and Duchesses blog.