Made You Look

Our rad little buddy Mira making some magic with her new trailer set by 🌈 Mira mixed in some more fun “loose parts” from Made You Look - subbing in wooden trees as people & creating custom bedspreads with felt and stickers! A+ Mira! 👏🏽⁣⁣
Thank you for sharing - getting to see how all the kiddos get creative is the best! ✨⁣⁣
PS: Have you heard of “loose parts play?” 👩🏽‍🏫 Loose parts are just about anything: measuring spoons, pinecones, colorful tiny little pom-poms, acorns, empty travel-sized shampoo bottles, cotton balls… you name it! Loose parts are open-ended - they encourage kids to think, play, and get creative (instead of toys with specific directions or a singular purpose). 🦕⁣⁣
A British painter & sculptor named Simon Nicholson coined the term “loose parts” in 1971 for materials that can be moved around, repurposed, and reimagined into anything a child can imagine. Nicholson believed that the loose parts in our environment are what inspire and empower our creativity. 👩🏽‍🎨⁣⁣
Grab a few little collections of interesting odds & ends and leave them out for your kiddo!

Cheese, please! 🍕 Some snaps of a recent “Pizza Night” Knock Knock Box - complete with the magical new book “A Pizza with Everything on It”, mini pizzas, a Sunprint Kit to get creative with (!!), and some ‘za stickers + “guest check” papers, too. 🧀⁣
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A special shout-out to the piemasters for sharing coupons with our local Knock Knock Box subscribers! 👩🏽‍🍳 (Pro tip: order their giant cookie and use the pizza box it comes in to store your art supplies! 🖍) ⁣
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Hoping everyone’s summer is off to a super fun start - filled with outdoor adventures, all the SPF, and lots of pizza with friends & family! 🌞

Sunscreen and sun hats and sand and shovels! 🌞 Putting our recent “Garden Party” Knock Knock Box gardening tools to full use over here in our part-sandbox-part-garden bed! 🌸 Hope everyone has been enjoying springtime and has fun plans in store for Mother’s Day this weekend! ✨

Hello, hello! 👋🏽 Hope everyone has been having a nice start to March! 🦁 In lieu of celebrating the pandemic one-year anniversary (🤯!!!), I’m thinking let’s countdown to Easter! 🐇 Just a month away!

Word on the street is that the grown-ups are busy working from home, home-schooling/managing distance learning, and cooking one trillion bajillion meals per week. Figured I could help out a teeny tiny bit by putting together Easter baskets! Check out our pre-made Easter baskets AND all kinds of treats that can fit in a basket at madeyoulookpdx.com & will be adding MORE over the next week or so! 🐇🍄

PS: Less than a week until Daylight Savings and 12 days until the Spring Equinox. (And even a short countdown to when lots of kids will be going back to school!)
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Recent Knock Knock Box cuteness! 🐌 Hope everyone enjoyed their “Living Room Safari” complete with storybook flashlights and DIY binoculars for some 🔦 Morse Code lights mixed in 🦁 trusty lift-the-flap books for the littlest ones, and more! 📚 Fingers crossed everyone has been staying warm and enjoying playing in the snow! ❄️ Playing catch up over here - delivering + shipping out birthday gifts & treats for kiddos, and of course Knock Knock Boxes, too. Thank you so much for your orders! 🙌🏽⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

This happy goofy adorable chatty smart hilarious super friendly gal is a Knock Knock Box subscriber and you can be too! 👧🏼👦🏿👶🏽 Each themed box is filled with so much fun - books and toys and little treasures galore. This month’s theme? Living Room Safari! 🐆 For a sweet little pal, your funny grandkids, your favorite inquisitive three year old. Subscribe at madeyoulookpdx.com! 🐌⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

If you need a little pick-me-up, please know that adorable uncles are out there buying their nieces care packages for their birthdays and describing them as very creative, artistic, and imaginative. 🥰 Counting down the days until the inauguration over here… and getting excited to start packing up January’s Knock Knock Boxes! 🐌 Hope you’re all hanging in there xo ✨⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

SNOW JAMS for your living room dancing & cookie baking! Find the full playlist on Spotify. We hope you love it! 👯‍♂️ ⁣⁣
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Our December Knock Knock Box theme was SNOW JAMS! ❄️ Each box was filled with snowy musical treasures …including this playlist that really wanted to be shared with the rest of the world!⁣⁣
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PS: there’s still time to send a Knock Knock Box gift subscription! 🐌 Choose the kiddo’s age and the number of boxes you’d like to send. Then we’ll email you a custom printable with the lucky kiddo’s name on it for now. They’ll be so excited when they receive their first Knock Knock Box in the new year! 🎁⁣⁣⁣
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