Mysteries in Time Review
Being at home so much with the children, means we have exhausted the book shelf. Filled in all the colouring books and made all the craft kits.
We were getting very close to running out of things to keep them happy and me sane!
However help was at hand! We were asked to review Mysteries in Time, a fun history for kids subscription box. It couldn’t have come at a better time!
What is Mysteries in Time?
Mysteries in time is a monthly history subscription box for children aged 7 -11. So my boys hit the perfect age range.
What’s included?
The box and it’s contents are based around two characters. Max and Katie, and their adventures through History.
Included in the Eygpitan box we were sent was:
- An illustrated book of their adventure
- A fun fact filled magazine with puzzles
- Colouring in sheets
- A crafts kit
- Stickers
- A world map
- Hieroglyphics card
- Plus a pen shaped like a sarcophagus.
It all comes packed up in a time travel themed box.
What themes does it cover?
The package starts with Ancient Egypt and then the next installments include: Elizabethan era, WW2, ancient Greece, Wild West, Aztecs, Ancient Rome, Victorians, Vikings, Ancient China, Space and Stuarts.
How much does it cost?
There are two price brackets:
Classic – which costs £6.45 per month plus postage. Based on twelve months prepay.
Bumper – which costs £11.45 per month plus postage. Based on twelve months prepay.
This is the package we had, which includes the craft activity and the historical gift.
They also offer world wide shipping
Our first impressions
My eldest who is eleven, was straight in the box and had already got everything out and opened before my youngest who’s 7 could get a look in.
I think it’s a great mix of activities, especially if, like me you have two differing aged children at home.
The eldest was happy to take himself off and read the book and the magazine.
The youngest keen to work with me on the crafts and do the colouring in.
Both of them liked the map and it’s now a great focus for us in the playroom.
Final thoughts
If we were to buy the bumper package for a year. It would work out to be £172.80 with shipping included. I was a little surprised by the price, but when you look at it. It works out to be rougly the price of a magazine a week.
I have bought my kids magazines as a treat at the end of a long week and often been surprised by how quickly they were exhausted.
The mysteries in time box in comparison gave much better vaulue for money. We can return to these resources again and again.
I also love the idea of gifting these boxes. You can buy them as a one off and with the possibility of not seeing loved ones for their birthdays. The chance to post them a personalised, unique gift like this, would be a great idea.
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victorian, to see how the inventions of the time were seen by the public back then
Oh I would love to go back to when it was war time in England. I’ve always said I was born into some other lifetime and it was always here. I loved how everyone came together, friends, neighbours, how everyone looked after one another. The listening to rules like lights out and black window coverings went up. Not the sad loss of lives part but the coming together.
The Swinging Sixties.
I think it would be interesting to go back to the victorian times!
What time period would you like to travel back to?
Pre-historic . . . . at the dawn of mankind would be amazing
victorian times
im not quite sure to be honest things are bad now let alone going back in time when things were worse lol, can i fast forward instead? x
Egyptian times xx
the 1950’s and 1960’s
I’d like to go back in time to the Roman Empire.
I’d like to go back in time to the Roman Empire.
The victorian era
The swinging 60s or tudors
Would love to go back to the Roman Empire, I’d love to see the Colosseum in all it’s glory xx
I would like to go back to the 1800 in wild west America!
The Edo period of Japan
Tudors is my favourite time period so would have to be then. I love Queen E|Elizabeth the 1st.
honestly i wouldnt like to go back in time – id like to go forward but not backwards – i like living in a world full of tech and all the amazing things we have
I’d love to travel back to the swinging 60s because I love the music
I would love to go back to victorian times but only if I was well off, men were gentlemen and women were pampered
I’d like to go back to my early childhood in the 1950s to reinforce what I already know…….life has changed so much since then!
I’d like to go back yo the Jazz age in the 20s
I would love to be in the 50’s, i love the clothes and music from those days
The 40s as im obsessed with ww2
Victorian – those dresses with crinolines are class !
I’d love to go back to the 80s which was a classic time for music.
I think that the Roman era would be really interesting
love the Victorian era! those clothes!
I would love to go back to prehistoric times to see how it all began!
The Regency period
The 80s the music.
As long as I could guarantee not getting eaten (!) I would love to go back to the Jurassic period and see all the dinosaurs and creatures alive at that time.
Roman times sound fascinating so I’d love to take a glimpse back in time then!
Back to Tudor times for me!
The Roman times. They had nice baths if you were lucky!
The Victorian times .
I’m obsessed with everything Viking so I would definitely travel back to those times.
I would love to go back to when henry the eighth was king
The Victorian times
1980
Go back to the 80s
I’m not sure I’d want to go too far back in time but I wouldn’t mind visiting the late sixties to watch the moon landing and see all the hippies in San Francisco
Victorian times, for the dresses!
Probabaly the time of the Egyptians.