Looking for the best monthly subscription boxes for kids? This list of favorites won’t steer you wrong! (You might also like this list of the best subscription boxes for toddlers!)
Kids Monthly Subscription Boxes Make GREAT Gifts!
Are you looking for unique non-toy gift ideas for Christmas or birthdays? One idea you might consider is monthly subscription boxes for kids!
My kids LOVE getting monthly subscription boxes as gifts because it means they’ll get fun snail mail packages every month all year long!
Here are the best monthly subscription boxes for kids that our family has loved and/or my readers have highly recommended…
Kids Monthly Subscription Boxes Our Family Has Loved
1. KiwiCo
KiwiCo is a monthly subscription service that offers educational projects, crafts, cooking, and activities on different themes.
Each box includes 2-3 projects, all the materials to complete those projects, plus hands-on learning activities and more!
They offer monthly subscriptions for various ages and interests, so you’re sure to find one that works for each child. They even offer subscription boxes for ages 12-100 — Maker Crate focuses on art & design and Eureka Crate focuses on engineering & design!
Our family LOVES KiwiCo and our kids have been receiving KiwiCo subscriptions as gifts for many years now! I highly recommend it.
Check out my honest review of KiwiCo for more information + get a coupon code for 30% off your first box.
2. Raddish Kids
Raddish Kids is a monthly food club for kids ages 4-14.
They offer 3 options to choose from:
- Cooking
- Baking
- Global Eats
Each kit comes with 3 recipes, a quality kid-sized kitchen tool, a creative kitchen project, a monthly collectible, 3 culinary skill lessons, and a complete grocery list.
With these monthly hands-on cooking kits, kids get to build their own cookbooks, try new foods, and gain important life skills in the kitchen. If you have a child who loves to help out in the kitchen, Raddish Kids might be a really unique gift idea!
Kierstyn and I have had fun cooking in the kitchen with these subscription boxes.
They also offer dozens of free recipes, video tutorials, and parent resources on their site.
3. ipsy
ipsy sends you a Glam Bag with five beauty products each month.
The five products are personalized to your preferences and profile, and you usually get at least 1-2 full-size products!
ipsy was a HUGE hit with our daughter Kaitlynn a few years ago when she was a younger teen. She’s loves all things fashion and style, so she had so much fun trying out the latest and greatest brands of cosmetics each month.
4. Little Passports
Little Passports creates award-winning subscriptions for kids that inspire them to learn about the world. They offer a variety of fun and engaging options for children ages 3-13 with several different payment plans.
There are a bunch of subscriptions to choose from:
- Early Explorers
- Animals Wild
- Space Quest
- Science Junior
- World Adventures
- Kitchen Adventures
- Science Expeditions
- Homer Early Learning
Little Passports is one of the first subscription boxes my kids ever tried and they loved it!
Although we haven’t used it in many years, I’ve heard it’s still just as great and many of our readers highly recommend it.
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5. Green Kid Crafts
Green Kid Crafts is a monthly subscription service that delivers a box of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) kits that spark the imagination and encourage discovery & learning in kids ages 3-10+.
Each box comes with step-by-step instructions for 4-6 screen-free, hands-on projects and activities, a 12-page magazine, and eco-friendly materials to complete all of the projects.
Green Kid Crafts offers 25 different subscription boxes — everything from electricity and engineering to rainbows and robots.
Each subscription kit comes in two age groups:
- Junior Science & Crafts (ages 3-5)
- Discovery Science & Crafts (ages 5-10+)
You can sign up for a 1, 3, 6, or 12-month subscription, and your child will begin receiving the new boxes monthly.
6. Think Outside Box
Think Outside Boxes are designed to help kids ages 4-16 get outside and be more active.
Every subscription starts with an “intro box” that contains
- Cool outdoor gear
- Not-your-average writing utensils
- Captivating learning materials
- An educational activity booklet
After that, each Think Outside Box comes with 3–5 outdoor gear items, water-resistant reference cards, and hands-on activities that are both educational and skill-building.
The mission of this company is to get kids away from the screen and outside exploring nature!
7. Kidpik
Kidpik is a personalized style service for children sizes 2T through 16 — think Stitch Fix, but for kids!
If you have a child interested in fashion, this might be a great gift idea!
When you sign up for Kidpik, your child will receive a monthly custom fashion box of head-to-toe outfits. (You can also choose to only receive the box once or twice per season.)
Each box delivers 8 high-quality items: 5 pieces of apparel, shoes, accessory, and free gift. This equates to a total of two to three head-to-toe outfit choices.
The best part? You only pay for what you decide to keep. Everything else can be returned for free.
There is NO membership, styling, or shipping fee. It’s 100% commitment-free! And if you decide to keep the entire box, you get 30% off — which equates to paying roughly $16 per item.
8. Cratejoy
No matter your interests, Cratejoy will curate the absolute best products for your subscription box – and then send it right to your door each month.
You can subscribe to boxes for kids, teens, women, and men…
Or you can choose a specific theme like:
- Date Night
- House Plants
- Coffee and Tea
- Introvert Retreat
- Candy and Desserts
- Travel
- Books
- Home Decor
- Board Games
- Fitness
- Grandparents
- and more
Cratejoy boxes come with multiple full-size products (sometimes up to 50 products in the food boxes) and would be such a fun gift idea for almost anyone in your life!
9. CrunchLabs
Former NASA engineer and YouTuber Marc Rober has created CrunchLabs subscription boxes to help kids love science and think like engineers.
There are Fostering Creativity boxes for ages 6-10, Hands On Engineering boxes for 6-13 year olds, and Robotics and Coding boxes for ages 14-100, so you’re sure to find a good fit for any age.
CrunchLabs has won many awards, including Toy of the Year Finalist in 2022 and, most importantly, kids rave about them!
Kids Subscription Boxes Recommended Ages
- KiwiCo (ages 0-100)
- ipsy (ages 10+)
- Little Passports (ages 3-10)
- Raddish Kids (ages 4-14)
- Green Kid Crafts (ages 3-10+)
- Think Outside Boxes (ages 4-16+)
- Kidpik (sizes 2T-16)
- Cratejoy (ages 5-95)
- CrunchLabs (ages 6-100)
Why You Should Try Subscriptions For Kids
Monthly subscription boxes are an excellent gift that keeps on giving — great for Christmas, birthdays, Easter baskets, or “just because.”
They provide opportunities for children to learn, create, and grow — not just consume — and the child feels a sense of accomplishment when they can enjoy their finished craft project, toy, recipe, or other creation.
Subscription boxes are also an extremely convenient gift as you can simply order them online and set up the shipping directly to the child’s home — no shopping or debating in stores!
Also… what child doesn’t LOVE getting special mail from a special person every month!?!
FAQs About the Best Subscription Boxes for Kids
The 10 subscription boxes listed above are favorites for our family and for our readers. Choosing the “best” one simply depends on the ages and interests of your children.
KiwiCo is one of the more popular ones as it has many options for various age groups and interests.
Many of the toy subscription boxes contain toys that are worth MORE than the price of the box — so you often get a great deal on the toys. The toys are usually very high quality and often educational in some way. That said, if you’re intentionally trying to limit toys in your home, you may want to consider a different subscription box.
Yes — definitely! These subscription boxes are a great way to promote creativity and learning from home. They are an easy gift idea and so fun for kids to get in the mail each month!
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My kids get KiwiCo(preschooler) and CrunchLabs(upper elementary and middle schooler). My middle school girl gets Baktivity. Every month something fun to bake! They provide most ingredients. It is step by step instructions for how to make the baked goods. Many ingredients come in marked and sealed bags. All of my kids enjoy their subscriptions!
Has anyone tried the Think Outside Boxes subscription??
From the website:
What’s Inside the Box?
THiNK OUTSiDE is a monthly subscription box full of outdoor gear and resources that will get your kids away from a screen and outside exploring nature!
•3 to 5 pieces of quality outdoor gear
•Water-resistant resource cards
•24+ page educational booklet
•Hands-on activities
•Challenges to do as a family
•Education and skill building
•Monthly themes, such as navigation, shelter building, or star gazing
•National park spotlights
•Global features
•Empathy section
It sounds really fun and by the end of a year the kids will have a full outdoor set up and have some survival skills.
That sounds so cool and unique! Thanks for sharing, we will definitely look into this! -Jordan, MSM Team
Has anyone tried Radish kids?
We have done Raddish Kids for the last 6 mo and Love it! In fact we just signed up for a year since our 6 mo just ran out. Tonight we had the Turkey Noodle Soup with the muffins (Novembers partial box) and it was excellent! My daughter has learned so much about cooking/baking, and I am also throwing in my math 😉 She also gets to learn about different cultures or different cooking terms/ingredients. I get to spend some time in the kitchen with her which is fun as well. She is starting to do more and more on her own though which is fun too! Highly recommend it 🙂 There is a black Friday special right now I believe until the 2nd. otherwise I can give you a code as well 🙂
I hit Little Passports on a sale and my son was hooked. We learned so much about different countries and years later my son still has a lot of the toys and items that came with it. And he retained everything he learned. We used the 50 states in our homeschool as a US History curriculum as well. Now my son is in 7th and when we covered bigger subjects like The Civil War, Ancient Egypt, and Medieval Japan, he still relates back to what he learned. If you sign up for emails, you’ll periodically get coupons too.
What is your opinion of Bitsbox? My 6 and 9 year old boys are enjoying it, so far. It is nice that they are learning how to read and write programming code in Javascript.
I used to advocate for Pley but since they added all the other toys instead of just Lego the customer service and communication have really gone downhill. I was charged for 5 months despite cancelling many times.
Yikes! Thanks so much for letting us know.