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5 Curated-Box Recommendations for Your Family

Who doesn’t like a surprise?

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Curated Boxes are all the rage these days. You can find boxes for kids of all ages, moms, and dads, too.  With a new box surprise each month, you and your kids will delight in your new-found treasures. Check out a few local and national curators:

Surprise Ride offers a box of materials to do fun hands-on projects each month. The box covers a surprise theme ranging from art and science to food and geography. Boxes are perfect for kids ages 6 to11. Even better, Surprise Ride was founded by two local sisters—Donna Khalife and Rosy Khalife. 

Zoobean curates apps, books, and other learning resources for your child. It was also founded in the Washington area, by super husband and wife team Jordan and Felix Bookey. Visit Zoobean to feed your kids imaginations today with apps and books matched to their interests and reading levels.

Want access to up-and-coming healthy, natural, and organic products? Then check out EcoCentric Mom, which gives moms of various stages of motherhood a way to discover healthy, natural, and organic products made exclusively for moms, moms-to-be, and babies. It was founded by mom-of-four Rebecca Attanasio after she realized how little information parents are given about what they buy and the effects chemicals and food additives may have on us.   

Umba box scours the handmade community to find the freshest handmade home goods, accessories, jewelry, stationery, and bath products. You will be delighted to receive a monthly curated treat while supporting artists in the US and abroad. 

Of course dad should not be left out of the curated mix. Why not provide him with a little ankle swagger in the form of the best men’s dress socks every quarter?

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