PS Photography | Angela Elias PS Photography | Angela Elias

Shrinking my 6- and 9-year-olds' window of screen time has been a trial by fire process. Tears have definitely been shed — my own included — but I've found that fostering boredom at home is less painful when there's a baseline of offerings. While our library card has earned every cent of our household's tax dollars and our bin of Halloween costumes makes for some pretty inventive play scenarios between the two kids, I've been wanting to throw in a wild card that engages them in a different way.

I'd heard about KiwiCo — a monthly subscription service that delivers "super fun, hands-on projects" that come in the form of boxes, or "crates" as the brand refers to them — but had never tried them for my kids. With a budd

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