We have been so incredibly lucky to have been sent a Cubby Kit. What’s a Cubby Kit? Well it’s a big brown box addressed to the children full of super activities for them to get crafting with.

If you, like me, aren’t the craftiest of mums but like to see your children enjoy making things Cubby Kits are for you. An ingenious scheme whereby you sign up and subscribe to receive an activity box monthly. Your Cubby Kit will arrive with everything you need inside and all you have to do is get crafting!

There are two groups to choose from 3-4 and 5-6 and you can choose to pay £19.99 a month or £199 for 12 months (a saving of £39.89 or 2 months free).

We received ours over half term which was perfect timing only Alice was poorly first and I wanted them both to enjoy it together. Then I was poorly and Bessie finished off our week by going down herself. Great half term! However, yesterday we got the box out and boy did we have fun.

Firstly, a Cubby Kit has more than one activity inside so will keep you going for a while. Our Outer Space Kit has three activities and we chose to start with the 3D Rocket Picture.

You can see from the photo everything is included and has been thoughtfully packaged into separate brown bags to avoid confusion. We had a tub of glue with spatula to apply it, scissors, glitter, pencils, paper, instructions even sticky stars to add to our night sky.

The making of our 3D rocket picture probably took about half an hour in all and of course I was present and helping where I was allowed. I got told off a couple of times for ‘intefering’ ie putting the glue in the right spot and not all over the oilcloth.

We started with colouring in and cutting our Cubby, the friendly blue bear and sticking him in one of the windows

Glueing and sprinkling glitter over the rocket ship was a very favourite task, one I was not allowed to participate in as much as I wanted to

I was allowed to help Bessie finish her cutting out when it all got a bit too much for her, they then stuck on red ribbons which I had twirled with the scissors to make the rockets go faster and I was allowed to help stick the rockets on the night sky. A final touch of more fun glueing and sprinkling glitter and we were done.

Our next project is called Mushy Martians, we’re going to cook up some playdough with the ingredients supplied and decorate it to make funny Martians.

Thank you Cubby Kit for sending us a box to trial, we loved it and still have more to do yet!