Little Learning Hands — Local services in Sharonville

I am a special ed teacher and a parent. My daughter is 6 and loves to learn. She recently became obsessed with learning about other countries. Little Learning Hands is an amazing way to integrate geography, social studies, arts and crafts, and cooking. My daughter loved decorating her backpack she received in her initial box. We were also given a 3D globe puzzle. That didn’t go as smoothly due to my lack of artistic and crafting abilities. But the globe intrigued my daughter. She’s curious to learn about all the places on the globe and we spent a lot of the past few days googling various cities and countries.

The box also includes questions which we ask our family over dinner. It sparked interest even in my husband. The questions are simple enough for my 6 year old yet interesting enough for all. For example, we were given a fact about soccer and asked our favorite sport. That sparked another interest in my daughter who wanted to see figure skating (my favorite sport) videos.

According to my daughter, the best part of the box is the recipes. She loves to cook and I have her measure out the ingredients on her own. The recipes contain staples or foods easily obtained at a local grocery store. We are planning on making the mango pudding this week. The recipes are easy enough for a child to do with some help from an adult and are appealing to my daughter.

All in all, this is an amazing box. I’m already considering ways to implement this in my...

We have loved our Little Learning Hands subscription boxes. We have thus far worked our way through the intro box and the box on China. And when I say "we", I mean it as they have provided great activities for us to do as a family. The activities are a perfect level for my older daughter (8) to be able to work on independently if she wants, but the boxes have also had activities my younger one (4.5) can participate in with us. Each box has a wide variety of activities (different types of art, different recipes) as well as appropriately tailored educational information. All of the instructions are very clear, the boxes are really well packaged, and the materials are high quality. My kids have especially loved getting packages mailed directly to them.

Straight from the 8-year-olds mouth, she has particularly enjoyed the panda stitching activity, the 3-D puzzles, and coloring the backpack. She was amazed that the globe puzzle (see picture below) not only spins, but also had our city labeled on it!

At a time when so much learning has been moved to screens, it has been great to have new hands-on, interactive, screen-free learning opportunities.

Thank you Little Learning Hands for at-home...

I got two boxes - the first “generic” and a box about France - for my two daughters to share. They are 7 and 10 years old, entering 3rd and 5th grade. Overall, they said the boxes were good. However, they were a little bit hard (the puzzles, in particular). The puzzles were more like models than puzzles, and adult assistance was necessary. Both of my girls liked coloring the backpack in the first box. The girls also liked all the recipes included. The facts were “pretty cool” and some were funny, but the girls did not read through all of them. There were a lot of things in the boxes, so it was almost too much to go through. It was interesting to see the different flags and money. The scratch off “map was cool”. The grow a maze included in the France box “looked really cool” but my girls have not yet opened it. We also were not clear on why there was a grow a maze plant in the box about France, so some more information about why it was included may have been helpful. According to my girls, they would recommend these boxes for kids their age, but maybe with an easier puzzle. As a mom, that's about as good as I can ever expect so I would also recommend...