Sky Explorers!

Welcome to June’s Investigator Box!

Filled with three rainbow-inspired experiments to challenge and intrigue your children about the wonderful world around them.

This month’s eco-friendly box is inspired by the non-fiction book Out and About Sky Explorers by the National Trust.

Together with this book, this book encourages our children to look up and explore the sky around us!

This box will be posted from Monday 5th June.

Subscribe today from £18.50 a month.

child playing with a rainbow spinner they have made themselves

Included in this box:

A copy of the book, a step-by-step instruction booklet and everything your child needs to:

  • Explore making rainbows with a glass prism

  • Design and make your rainbow spinner!

  • Experiment with chromatography.

  • Solve two literacy challenges.

Our sibling box will contain enough resources for two children to complete all the activities.

You will receive:

  • A copy of the book

  • Instruction booklet which includes the english and reading challenges.

  • Prism

  • Crayola felt tips

  • Two spinners

  • String

  • Coffee filters

If you subscribe, your child will receive a beautiful gold embossed Writer’s Notebook and pencil to inspire budding authors and illustrators in their first box.

From amazing cloud formations and rainbows to twinkling stars and planets, become an expert sky explorer with this brilliant guide to the wonders of the sky, both by day and night. Wherever you are, whatever the weather, there's always something to see if you look up!

Learn how to tell your cumulonimbus from your contrails, your stars from your satellites, and much more in the beautifully illustrated spotter's guides to the sky by day and by night. Find out what makes the sky blue, the difference between lunar and solar eclipses and how mirages happen. And even discover how to make a rainbow, create your own lightning and steer by the stars yourself!

In a handy pocket format with vibrant elastic closer, this book also includes top spotting tips for your adventures, plus a quiz to test your expert explorer knowledge.

Please Note:

  • This activity box is not suitable for children under 36 months and contains small parts that may be choking hazards. Children must be supervised.

  • Although we have taken every precaution possible, we cannot guarantee that there are no traces of nuts or other allergens in our products. Our boxes are made in an environment in which nuts and other allergens are used.