A monthly subscription box and play-based curriculum covering early literacy, math, science, and art learning for children ages 2 to 7. Week by week, your child will explore the month’s theme through a variety of sensory activities and hands-on projects vetted by current Playwell children and families at our neighborhood studio in Westerly, RI.
Each box includes:
All materials including a sensory kit, maker project and children’s book
One month’s worth of themed activities and guides
Freedom to start or cancel your subscription anytime
$75/month
May Theme: Bugs
Explore planting season, from soil and bugs to sowing seeds. Get curious about life under the surface by creating bug habitats, starting a garden, creating art with spring flowers, and building insect wings. Jump start your curiosity with Have You Seen Bugs? By Joanne Oppenheim.
What’s in the Box:
Book:
Have You Seen Bugs? By Joanne Oppenheim
Sensory Kit:
Create a bug habitat with rice and krinkle paper. Using scoopers, tweezers, and magnify glasses, investigate the similarities and differences between a variety of arthropods. Have a bug scavenger hunt in your sensory bin and outside!
Explore the anatomy of bugs by creating bug prints in playdough. Count the number of legs to identify spiders from insects. Identify the main body parts of arthropods.
Maker Project:
Create wearable insect wings with step by step instructions using materials around the house.
Start a butterfly garden using compostable pots, seeds and soil.
Curriculur Guide:
Our curricular guides walk caregivers through all of our invitations to explore spring, with suggested high-order thinking questions to support your little learners.
Extension Guide:
Extension guides support you in extending and deepening the learning all month long, with numerous related projects.
Celebration &
Special Events
Fun ideas for a May Day celebration.
Daily Rhythm Guide
To support you as you integrate this learning into your family life, offering suggested schedules.
Invitations to create flower & bug inspired art
Bug & garden song list
Seed sowing observation diary
Art, Music & Outdoor Learning Guides:
Classroom
Materials List:
A practical guide to setting up an inspiring space for your 2 to 7-year-old to learn through play. Downloadable file includes links to suggested products.
What to Know
✔ Start your subscription whenever you’re ready.
✔ Subscriptions renew automatically each month.
✔ Free shipping in contiguous US and Canada.
✔ Cancel anytime.
Monthly: $75/month (+ shipping for international)
Save with a Batched Subscription:
$200/3-month subscription
($66/box / $27 savings)
$350/6-month subscription
($58/box / $102 savings)
$600/one-year subscription
($50/box / $300 savings)
All pricing in USD.
Playwell at Home makes a
wonderful gift for little learners!
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Let’s explore the joy of spring, from eggs and nesting to baby bunnies and chicks. Get curious about seasonal habitats through mini coop and nest building, and let the springtime classic Egg by Kevin Henkes inspire learning as you dive into hands-on sensory play and process art.
