What To Expect From FirstCry Intellikit Little Naturalist 4-5yrs

Hello Dear Mommies,

Kids activity boxes and kits are on boom these days. There are plenty of options for every age group to introduce your kid to. These activity kits offer great learning opportunities while your kid take them as a game or fun activity. First Cry Intellikit  is one of the most recent addition to these activity boxes. One of a mommy blogger mentioned this kit and I went on exploring First Cry to understand what is so unique that Intellikit is offering.  I am sharing my learning and understanding with you here in this article. Stay tuned.

FirstCry Intellikit Little Naturalist 4-5yrs

First Cry is a leading website offering babies & kids goods. First Cry Intellikit is designed by experts, approved by parents and loved by kids. It offers different set of practical activities that will help your kid grow. These activities are designed so that screen time of your kid could be minimized while he spends quality time with you.

First cry Intelikit, is categorized in three sets, 2-3yrs, 3-4yrs and 4-6 yrs. For my son, I got the 4-6yrs box as he is turning 5 soon. This kit is themed as Little Naturalist as it contains activities and small tasks that involves the nature – marine life, plants, birds, animals etc.

My Learning Calendar – The Activity Planner

In the kit you are greeted by an activity planner that describes the different set of activities and tasks to undertake for a duration of 4 weeks. The 9 major activities are separated by 3-4 small tasks in between, per day. These tasks and activities are designed so that they involve you (the parent) actively. Most of the times, you are required to narrate the activity, help your kid to perform certain tasks or assist them with some messy errands, while it all assures great fun together.

The Happy Tracker

The happy tracker describes the how your child is going to get benefited as he or she progresses with the activities. The kit is designed to enhance your kid’s skills at different levels. You will notice a boost in physical, cognitive, language, social and emotional development of your child. You can tick the progress in this chart.

Activity 1 – Underwater Magnet Mania

The very first activity involves a small activity based on the marine life while creating practical daily item (fridge magnet). This activity will help your kid get familiar with the life inside the sea. My son did not know any thing about shells. But this activity got him interested in knowing what a shell is, how it’s formed and he had great fun in crafting one out of Plaster of Paris provided in the activity box.

The Activity 1 contains, Plaster Of Paris (PoP), A set of colors, a tiny paint brush, shell molds, a pair of gloves and magnets. The plaster Of Paris can be used to create shells using the shell mold. I did this part myself. And let him paint the shells once they are dry. He painted the shells with precision. He chose multiple colors to paint the shells.

This activity emphasizes on being body smart as well as picture smart.

Activity 2 – Windy Windmills

The 2nd activity involves making a windmill. In the activity set, the necessary items are provided such as the base, roof , the fan blades of the windmill along with glue. This activity involves following simple steps and creating a windmill. The main concept of this activity is to getting the kids familiar with the purpose of windmill and hence forth using natural resources for day to day life.

Activity 3 – Up In The Sky

Next comes the birds. This activity involves being Nature Smart, Logic Smart, Word Smart & Picture smart. It involves getting the kids familiar with birds and their nests. 2 tree cutouts are provided along with bird stickers that are supposed to be pasted upon the trees using volcro dots provided in the activity.

This activity set improves the kids’ knowledge about birds and their nests. This whole activity is quite short but quite enticing.

Activity 4 – My Grassy Friend

This activity emphasizes upon being body smart, logic smart, word smart, self smart, nature smart and picture smart. In the activity set, we receive, a pot, a coco peta, a sock, a popsickle stick, craft eyes and seeds. This activity involves, potting few seeds in the pot and growing your own grass. This activity is bit long term but will give immense pleasure to the kid once he sees the grass in his pot.

Activity 5 – Lemony Lemonade

Every kid has a chef inside him and this activity brings out the chef in your kid. In this set you are provided with a decorative umbrella, a stirrer, glass paint and a chef cap. You can help him set up a kitchen top using the things and ask him to prepare a lemonade for the whole family. You would not believe how tasty the drink turns out to be.

Activity 6 – Green Charades

Kids love to play pretend. Activity no 6 is themed as Green Charades. You are provided with various picture cards on the back of which the details about the picture is scribbled. This activity could be carried out with your kid and his friends. Form two teams. Ask one member of a team to act as the card while his team members would guess the picture on the card.

Activity 7 – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

This is one of the concept that we must introduce to or children at early age so that they can adopt it and apply it since childhood. Activity 7 helps you introduce the concept of 3R’s in an easy way.

Activity 8 – My Word Garden

This activity involves intelligence on the basis of nature, logic and picture. You are provided with a picture board along with petal cut outs and a story book. Read the story book -“Growing Flowers” trying him to read few words by himself. And then perform the activity. The petal cutouts needs to be placed on the picture board and the garden will be ready.

Activity 9 – Workbooks

This activity contains another 9 worksheets involving coloring, counting and hence developing logic and creativity.

 

My Views On First Cry Intellikit – Little Naturalist

First Cry Intellikit, is an activity kit designed very thoughtfully. All the tasks and activities are well designed. The tasks does not seem over the top neither do the activities. But as a parent, your role is very well laid out. You can easily explain the concepts behind these activities and hence making your kid familiar with nature and it’s course which we might never even touch otherwise.

My 4yrs old kid really liked the kit. He seemed really excited to undertake the activities and tasks as soon he returns from his school. By now he has completed 2 activities. I shall try to update this page with his final crafts and creations.

Kids are curious when they see new things they bombard you with questions. Just stay patient and try to answer every question. You will see your kid outsmarting yourself very soon.

 

Bonus:  Use ‘NISHA70OFF’ on First Cry website to buy Intellikit at a discount of 70%.

 

Hope this subscription box excites you too. Leave your comments below about your experience and queries.

Nisha Malik ❤

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