Summer crafts with Yellow Moon ~review~

Our latest parcel of crafty treats from Yellow Moon arrived recently and although us parents are thinking of trips to the beach, park or zoo it's very handy to have some rainy day activities planned because, let's face it, a typical British summer always involves a few rainy days and children complaining that they're bored!

We were sent the following;
Flip Flop Ceramic Trinket boxes (4pk)
Castle Card Shapes (10pk)
Design your Own Clocks (6pk)
Animal Print cars (6pk)
Football keyring/bag dangler kits (4pk)

We've had numerous thunderstorms over the last few days so we got out the craft box and started creating.

Firstly the children made the football keyrings. As always with Yellow Moon craft kits the instructions were very easy to understand. The keyrings were made in a matter of minutes. I was only needed to tie a knot in the string at the end. Charlie was very impressed to find a yellow and green one as he now supports Norwich (Daddy, a lifelong ITFC fan wasn't happy!)

Molly had been itching to decorate a flip flop trinket box so we got out the glitter glue and metallic decor pens from one of our previous boxes.

I'm always a little concerned when they have anything ceramic, especially with Harry being so clumsy and reckless but these trinket boxes are solid and well-made.

Molly is going to make some loom bracelets and give them to her cousin in the trinket box. I think it will make a cute gift.

L-R Harry's, Molly's and Charlie's trinket boxes

Harry got the castle cards out next. There are 5 each of two designs. Harry loved decorating these with felt tips and glitter glue. Unfortunately they haven't come out very clearly in the photograph. They would make a great alternative to a shop-bought greetings card. These ones are going to Nanny apparently :-)

Harry soon nabbed the animal print cars and has hidden them from me and told me that I'm not allowed to take a photo! They, and the football keyring kits, would make great little stocking fillers or party bag fillers.

We haven't yet made the clocks but I'm going to sit down with Harry for that activity as I think it'll help with his numbers in the run up to starting school and the eldest two could also do with a little more practise with telling the time on analogue clocks. By decorating their own clocks it might encourage them to practise. Both the clocks and castles are made from strong white card which has a bit of a sheen to it so pens and stickers would work better than pencils.

Take a look at the Yellow Moon website and stock up for those rainy summer days! 

*We were not paid for this post. We were sent the products to review as part of the Yellow Moon Bloggers Network. All opinion is honest and based upon our own experiences.