Tuesday 13 November 2018

Sublime Slime Jumbo Activity Box Review for age 7-11 (Sent By The Curiosity Box)

We had a great time exploring at The Digital Kids Show last weekend and one of the most exciting things we found in the STEM Zone was The Curiosity Box. I've heard of their boxes before and been impressed at the quality and range of activities at very fair prices. It was lovely to meet the people behind the project and bring home a box for my boys to try out themselves.


The Curiosity Box have a massive range of different Science and Engineering Boxes for children aged 7-11, and a new CuriosiTots Box for younger children aged 4-6. We were given a Jumbo Curiosity Box: Atomic for children aged 7-11. My 10 year old was ecstatic!


We haven't yet had much time to play with it, but inside the Atomic Curiosity Box we found a battery, blu tack and fizzy tablets, weighing scales, milk powder, Magnesium Salt and lots of other genuinely exciting goodies to complete 3 different activities. Plus a pack of 'Molymods' - rods and balls to make your own model atoms.


The Molymods are really smart and longer lasting than the grapes or jellybeans we've used before to recreate 'Oxygen'. They're a regular feature in the Curiosity Boxes and so you can collect them and create an ever-increasing number of elements.


There is an Instant Weight Loss Activity - what happens to the weight of your ingredients when you release carbon dioxide into the air? This includes a results sheet, punched instruction/information sheet to collect and pocket scales. My son has weighed EVERYTHING.


The Splitting Water Activity is a fascinating activity which we haven't explored yet, but you make your own 'electrolysis device' and turn water into something else...


The 3rd activity in our pack is Atomic trumps cards - we've all played before and it's a great game for helping younger readers with literacy and numeracy, it's amazing what big numbers they can read, add and subtract when they think they'll win! And I even spotted the elusive Higgs Boson...


I'm really, truly impressed with The Curiosity Box. It's beautifully thought out and the experiments are unusual and really interesting. EVERYTHING you need is included, so you don't have to search the house or go and buy ingredients, and there is no extra cost.

These are excellent STEM activity boxes which will really support your child's learning and schoolwork, general knowledge and understanding of their world - and they are excellent fun! Ideal gifts when you don't know what a child already has, or want to buy something different that will keep them busy.


The Curiosity Box sell a big range of science equipment and individual boxes, which start at only £7 for a Pico Box with 1 Activity (and there are currently 19 to choose from!). There is also a CuriosiTots Box for younger children aged 4-6.

They also have 3 sizes of boxes for children aged 7-11 on monthly subscription:
Pico (1 activity) from £6.95pm
Nano (2 activities) from £10.83pm
Jumbo (3 activities) from £16.66pm.

Find out more and place orders on The Curiosity Box website.



I had a brilliant Christmas Present Giveaway which was a bit of an exclusive. The Curiosity Box offered one of my readers the Jumbo-sized Sublime Slime Box, which wasn't available to non-subscribers until around 15th December (subscribers received it in early December). The giveaway closed at midnight 9th December for Christmas delivery. To see my current giveaways please go to my Giveaways Page....


We received our Atoms Box - well, my 10 year old did - for review!

59 comments:

  1. I'm with you as A Christmas Carol is my favourite Christmas story too! I love watch all the versions on tv too over Christmas!

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  2. A Christmas Carol is my favourite too. It's so beautifully written and I love the theme of redemption

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  3. I love the grinch, great Christmas story.

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  4. I like the traditional Christmas carol but love the Micky mouse version.

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  5. The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. There's simply nothing like it for summing up everything that is special and cosy and snowy and wonderful and magical about this time of year.

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  6. Ditto - charles dickens is so hard to beat ! Always been a favourite since childhood

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  7. Father Christmas needs to pee!

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  8. We like The Night Before Christmas and read it every Christmas eve

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  9. ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..........

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  10. I like watching the snowman each Christmas with my son

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  11. I absolutelt love a Christmas Carol too, its a story I can watch or read over and over. So many different versions too

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  12. I love a Christmas Carol as well its a classic

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  13. How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss, my daughter loves it too.

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  14. We like The Night Before Christmas :)

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  15. It's got to be 'The Night Before Christmas'

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  16. My two boys are 8 and 11, they would love this!

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  17. I love the Snow Queen. Such a beautiful story.

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  18. Twas the Night before Christmas has to be my favourite. Gets me right in the Christmas mood. :)

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  19. I love reading the kids ‘‘twas the night before Christmas!

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  20. Has to be the polar express

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  21. I've never really been a big reader of Christmas stories so I can't honestly say I have a favourite.

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  22. My favourite story ever is A Christmas carol so it is obviously my favourite Christmas story too!

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  23. My favourite has to be a christmas carol such a great story and i still love it till this day.

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  24. The Night before christmas is a classic

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  25. The Chrismasaurus by Tom Fletcher!

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  26. It has to be it was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse! It's a family favorite!

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  27. 'Twas the night before Christmas is my all time fave my nana used to read it to me on Christams eve and I have taken on the tradition and read it to my kids now too

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  28. A Christmas Carol, such a classic! Love it

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  29. The Snowman will always be the most magical story for me.

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  30. The Grinch is definitely a favourite in our house

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  31. I love A Christmas Carol too, also The Snow Queen, Mouses Christmas Wish, and the kids have a couple of Christmas books that are rhyming which are also lovely x

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  32. The Little Match Girl is my favourite. I can never get to the end of it without crying.

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  33. my parents brought me 'the night before Christmas' book one year, it is full of poems and stories about Christmas, now my daughter has it, minus a front cover.

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  34. My son's personalised story about helping the RNLI save Santa :-)

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  35. I've always love The Polar Express.

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  36. A christmas is also one of my favourites and the little match girl!

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  37. I love the nativity story. My children love reading it at Christmas time

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  38. i love the Snowman & The Snowdog! still tear up each time i watch it, love snuggling up with the kids and a hot chocolate to watch it, thats made christmas perfect for me

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  39. its the same a christmas carol old book of my dads i read it every year

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  40. the night before christmas x

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  41. For me and my boys it has to be the Grinch by Dr Seuss, I love the rhyming, the illustrations and most of all the message behind it. Thanks for the chance

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  42. A Christmas Carol for me always takes me bck to younger years x

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  43. We love twas the night before Christmas 🎑

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  44. I have a copy of father Christmas from when I was small and love to read it every christmas

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  45. My kids love new stories such as father christmas needs a wee. I love the older ones like the Grinch.

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  46. Yep, I'm with you. I love A Christmas Carol

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