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The Autumn Kit has supplies and detailed instructions for 12 hands-on activities including a hardcover picture book The Littlest Families Big Day, a Button Tree box, Leaf Rubbing, Pass the Pompoms, Sticky Paper Collage, Family Tree, Make Your Own Book, A Special Music and Movement with Miss Laura, a Brain Builder Challenge, and more! As a special fall treat, F.A.R.M. Cafe has provided the recipe and all the ingredients for homemade Sweet Potato Applesauce.
Minimum Suggested Donation $10 members, $18 non-members to cover materials.If you are a local resident and experiencing financial hardship, you are encouraged to request a free kit.
Donations above minimum support free kits for those in need. Boxes are also distributed through local agencies including Hunger Coalition, Watauga County Schools and DSS.
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Autumn Kit
The Autumn Kit has supplies and detailed instructions for 12 hands-on activities including a hardcover picture book The Littlest Families Big Day, a Button Tree box, Leaf Rubbing, Pass the Pompoms, Sticky Paper Collage, Family Tree, Make Your Own Book, A Special Music and Movement with Miss Laura, a Brain Builder Challenge, and more! As a special fall treat, F.A.R.M. Cafe has provided the recipe and all the ingredients for homemade Sweet Potato Applesauce.Minimum Suggested Donation $10 members, $18 non-members to cover materials.If you are a local resident and experiencing financial hardship, you are encouraged to request a free kit.
Donations above minimum support free kits for those in need. Boxes are also distributed through local agencies including Hunger Coalition, Watauga County Schools and DSS.
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A Special Bonus for the First 30 Families that Sign Up for Porch Pickup: a Dinosaur Fossil Mini-Kit created by local 8th grader and Boy Scout Zack Racz! Check out Zack’s dino video
(click here)
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Monthly Play Kits for ages 2-6
Each month The Playhouse is designing and assembling 200 Play Kits for local families. Designed for kids aged 2-6, the kits include all the instructions and supplies for 10 hands-on, fun activities to be enjoyed by at least two children. Limit one box per family. Parental supervision required. Suggested minimum donation is $10 for members and $18 for non-members. The minimum suggested donations for each kit help cover the cost of supplies. Donations above $18 allow us to offer free kits to families experiencing financial hardships and local aid organizations including Que Pasa Appalachia, the Hunger Coalition, and OASIS.
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Download the Activity Guides for Past Play Kits
Play Kit #1 included puppets, make your own playdough, stickers, murals, sensory play with waterbeads, a cotton ball catapult and more. Download the instructions for all 11 activities:
Play Kit #2 “Everybody Let’s Go Outside” featured hands-on activities designed to spur kids’ delight in the natural world including a DIY flower press, fairy house building, salt dough mosaics, rock painting, a scavenger hunt and more. Download the instructions now:
Play Kit #2 Let’s Go Outside activity guide
Everybody Let’s Go Outside simplified book
Spanish Everybody Let’s Go Outside simplified book
Spanish Play Kit #2 Let’s Go Outside activity guide
Spanish translation Fairy House by Amy Renfrantz
Play Kit #3 Water and Wondering Kit: Water Exploration, Floating and Sinking experiments, cork boats, make your own book, and more.
Play Kit #3 Water and Wondering Activity Guide
En Espanol guide for Activity KIt #3 Water and Wondering
Play Kit #4 Pizza and More Kit: Homemade pizza recipe, World Pizza book, Pretend Pizza and Oven, Scissor Skills, Make a Necklace, Multicultural Paper People, and more.
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STEAM Kits Now Available!
Perfect for a “Stay at Home” Summer! Check out our new STEAM Kits for kids aged 6 to 10. Click below for more information about all the different kits and to order.
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Safety Strategies for Play Kits
In order to recieve the kits, parents and caregivers must affirm that they understand and agree to the following safety strategies for the Play Kits:
Leave this kit unopened for 72 hours after pickup. The Children’s Playhouse has followed current CDC recommendations and utilized reasonable mitigation strategies concerning COVID-19, so that the assembly and distribution of the Play Kits is as safe as possible. The Children’s Playhouse, however, cannot make any guarantees about potential exposure to COVID-19, with respect to supplies included in the Play Kits or staff/volunteers assembling such Play Kits, due to the highly contagious nature of the virus. Accordingly, The Children’s Playhouse recommends leaving each Play Kit unopened for seventy-two (72) hours before use and it is MY responsibility as a parent to do so.
Remove Activities that are not right for your child. The activities included in the Play Kit are designed for children of various ages and that it is MY responsibility as a parent to remove activities that may be inappropriate because of age or other reason from the Play Kit before it is used by my child(ren).
Supervise your children while using these supplies. As a parent, I am responsible for monitoring the usage of the Play Kit by my child(ren).
