ABOUT CRAFT AND GROW BOXES
What are Craft and Grow Boxes?
Craft and Grow boxes have been carefully designed to explore nature and grow foods appropriate to the seasons. Each box has a theme, such as wind power, birds etc. The kits contain seeds/plants to be sown and grown in that month as well as the compost needed. The boxes also contain a range of activities from crafts to puzzles, colouring to foraging that are inkeeping with the theme of the box. The boxes are designed to be grown in a specific month, there is some flexibility in this though, so a January box would be suitable for any cold month. It would not be recommended to start a June box in December as the nature foraging activities would be very difficult and the sowing of seeds not successful. You can always pop us a quick message on the contact us page if you are in any doubt,.
What is included in each Craft and Grow Box?
Each Craft and Grow box contains the essential equipment such as glue, pens, pencils, crayons, paints, paint brushes, compost, plant markers and seeds. The equipment supplied is more than enough to complete all of the crafts in that box. Some crafts will need additional supplies, these are either common items found in your recycling, (milk cartons, egg boxes, jam jars etc) or easy to find items in your back garden, in a park or on a small walk, (sticks, leaves, flowers etc). Each box also contains an easy to make recipe, puzzles, a themed spotting guide, craft instructions, templates and 2 different growing activities
What ages are the Craft and Grow Boxes suitable for?
Due to small parts, glue, seeds and paint it is not recommended that these boxes be given to anyone under the age of 3 years. The boxes have crafts and activities that could be suitable for all ages over 3. Nature foraging, spotting activities and simple planting that could be great activities for young and old alike, we encourage a family approach to these. The crafts do vary in complexity and children's abilities vary too. Younger children could be supported and older children and adults would find the activities fun too. If you need any advice on each kit's suitability, please don't hesitate to get in touch via the 'contact us' page.
What makes your boxes Eco friendly?
We believe that protecting the environment is more important now, than ever before. We are actively reducing the single use plastics that are included in all of our boxes and opting for a much more recyclable approach. In the boxes, our watercolour paints for example, are not supplied in the usual cheap plastic trays. Instead we have fixed the individual paint cakes onto a cardboard sheet. We have sourced wooden paintbrushes instead of plastic ones, these will be phased in and will replace the plastic brushes currently used. Our crafts are made using either card or items from your recycling, they dont include any new plastics. Our packaging can be placed in your recycling (unless you build something out of them first). We will constantly strive to be as eco friendly as possible, and to encourage others to do the same.
I don't have a garden. Will these boxes grow indoors?
Quite a few of our boxes dont need lots of space. You could easily grow on a balcony, or in pots or in a small garden, we even have planting activities that will happily grow indoors on a windowsill. There are lots of creative ideas for being able to grow many different plants in a very small space. We believe that building a connection between planting, growing and picking your own food is essential to a healthy lifestyle. Connecting with growing has been evidenced many times as having a calming effect on children and adults alike and also brings a feeling of pride and boosts self confidence.
I don't live in the UK, will you post to other countries?
I am afraid we can't ship to outside the UK. There are lots of rules and regulations about shipping live seeds from country to country. The Craft and Grow boxes are seasonal and are created with the UK weather cycles in mind. Posting to a different temperature country potentially make the box either difficult to complete the grow activity, complete any of the spottings challenges or indeed find the natural resources needed when foraging for your craft box.