you’ll just have to Makedo

Can you smell it? Take a big whiff of your email, or maybe a recent magazine. Mmm, it’s the smell of holiday shopping. I have decided it’s ok to embrace the holiday season on November 1st. If you wait until Thanksgiving there’s simply NOT enough time to love it all. But seeing media everywhere promoting it wholeheartedly is, honestly, making me feel behind already!

These crafty construction kits by Makedo just arrived in my email today, thanks to Gift Hero’s own holiday nudge. The concept is brilliant. Each modern toy kit gives your kids some basic – but innovative – connectors, tools, and ideas. Yet they help kids use their own found materials from around the house – cardboard, plastic bottle caps, etc. It’s like each kit is a creativity kick-starter, design manifesto, and recycling primer cobbled together in a neat little package. For $20 you get a kit that is much more open-ended than your standard kids creativity package. Choose your kit from freeplay, dollhouse, car, or flowers. But the resulting toy will always be unique to your child’s experience. So. Cool.