We were excited to get one of these Wummelbox’s to review.  This awesome idea is a box full of crafts and games sent to your house each month focusing on a different theme for each month.  Years ago I used to get the Brighter Vision Learning Adventures for my kids that was similar in that each month you automatically got a shipment of learning crafts, books, and activities of different themes.  I LOVED it! The products were such great quality and my kids loved it.  Plus it was great educational material.  Sadly Brighter Vision Learning Adventures are no longer around. So when I first heard about these Wummelboxes that are similar I was very excited.
The box that we received for our review had the theme of : Time Travel

It included everything you needed to do 3 different projects-

Make your own time Machine.  There’s a story included about how 2 friends find a time machine and go back to the prehistoric (cave man) time.  The board, knobs, stickers, and even paint was all provided. My kids had so much fun, and even fought over who got to sleep with it!

The second project was the cave wall drawings.  The materials for this project included a canvas to paint on, wooden circles and foam shapes to create our own stamps, glue dots, velcro dots, and the paint and brush we used from the time machine project.  This project the kids probably had the most fun with.  I let each of them create their own line of pictures and make up their own story to go with the pictures.  It was fun to see what stories they came up with!  Some were silly and we all got a good laugh in.
Brady’s is the bottom line- his story went like this “there was a mammoth, he found a house, then he lost it, then he found it, then he lost it, then he found it ………… etc”

The last project was a hunter & gatherer game.  It was probably my least favorite.  It came with stencils of 3 different animal tracks that you traced onto felt then cut out, and a die.  I used some chalk I had to trace the shapes.  There is also a paper folding mammoth you make.  It was a pain to get to stay together, and didn’t stand up very well for the game.
The idea behind this project is you cut out the tracks from the felt, lay them in a row on the floor then roll a die that you have painted to have 3 color options on and whatever color it lands on is the only color of track you can step on to get to the mammoth at the end of the tracks.
It was an ok game, but over quickly and didn’t seem to have my kids’ attention like the other 2 projects did.

Here’s some official information on the Wummelbox-

• The high-quality materials in the sets are eco-friendly! Each box includes materials like cork, sand and reforested wood. Even the box is re-useable, becoming a part of each craft!
• Each craft is designed to be used not once but over and over again (e.g. a car, a cashbox, a windchime, etc.)!
• Each high-quality WummelBox contains 3-4 themed-based projects (Nutrition, Sound, etc) and is designed to inspire children age 3-8 to learn and explore the world around them.
• Straight from Berlin, projects are developed by experts, refined by parents and approved by kids!
• Each WummelBox contains everything needed to immediately begin crafting.
• Each box is a retail value of $35.95