Inside This Box:

• Build your own sand garden
• Try your hand at the art of origami
• Learn the history of tea and enjoy a treat made from matcha (green tea) powder
• Read a Japanese folktale shared during the Middle Ages
• Color a Samurai warrior

...and more!

Looking for more information on Medieval Japan?  Our Medieval Japan Unboxed Pinterest board has additional activities, books, and learning resources.

Inside This Box:

• Decorate and play games with a Mongolian Shagai bone.
• Learn about the importance of wool and try a felting project.
• Taste a drink based on a traditional Mongolian recipe.
• Learn about the amazing life of a man who is still respected by some and despised by others: Genghis Khan!

…and more!

Looking for more information on the Mongols? Our Mongols Unboxed Pinterest board has additional activities, books, and learning resources.

Inside This Box:

• Take an imaginative tour of the Forbidden City.
• Learn about the history of printing and then design your own movable type printing press.
• Find out the symbolic importance of folding fans.
• Read the real Ballad of Mulan.

...and more!

**Please note: This box contains (sealed) ginger candy. Custom "no food" orders are available by request!

Looking for more information on the Ming Dynasty?  Our Ming Dynasty Unboxed Pinterest board has additional activities, books, and learning resources.

Inside This Box:

• Discover how snail shells were used as currency and make your own "money" (cowrie jewelry).
• Read about African recycled jewelry.
• Enjoy using a traditional Nigerian bar soap.
• Learn to play traditional African and modern songs on a kalimba thumb piano.
• Read the folktale of Emotan, who cared for Benin's children and even hid the king from usurpers, as told by one of our Own Voices guest authors, Ekiuwa Aire.
• Color one of the Benin Kingdom's leaders from the Middle Ages.

...and more!

Looking for more information on the Kingdom of Benin? Our Benin Unboxed Pinterest board has additional activities, books, and learning resources.

Our youth boxes contain printed materials at multiple levels from elementary to lower high school level. The young adult box contains additional literature featuring mature content.

In This Box:

•  Learn how astronomy advanced under Seondeok’s reign and then create a night light using constellations she studied
• Try your hand at calligraphy as you learn how the Silk Road connected Korea, China, and many other countries
• Read the legend of Seondeok’s wisdom and craft a paper peony in her honor
• Color a scene from the Middle Ages Korea

...and more!

Our youth boxes contain printed materials at multiple levels from elementary to lower high school level. The young adult box contains additional literature featuring mature content.

Inside This Box:

• Paint a wooden mask inspired by the art of Native Alaskans.
• Learn about the different ways Native Alaskans thrived in their environments and try out a pair of snow goggles.
• Make an Alaskan yo-yo and play as children have for generations.
• Read a Tlingit story about Raven.

...and more!

This box about the history of Native peoples in Alaska was created in collaboration with Yupik and Tlingit artists and writers.

Our youth boxes contain printed materials at multiple levels from elementary to lower high school level. The young adult box contains additional literature featuring mature content.