The weather is getting cooler, calendars are filling up, and is that a hint of pumpkin spice we smell in the air? Sounds like it's time for our Fall 2025 Pouch Subscriptions!
(PS, don't have a pouch subscription yet? You can sign up anytime here. Our pouches ship every 12 weeks, depending on when you first placed your order. The activities in our pouches change after those 12 weeks to ensure you always get new activities, no matter when you signed up).
What's Coming This Fall?
Pouch 1: ABC Key and Lock Puzzle
Our uppercase and lowercase key and lock puzzle unlocks (quite literally) tons of fun! At first glance, it’s a bright and colorful puzzle with charming lock and key pieces. But in reality, your kiddo is learning the alphabet and recognizing the difference between upper and lowercase letters, as well as the relationship between them.
Emerging Skills Focus: [PS- what do we mean by emerging skills? Check out the education behind our company here!]
- Pre-academics
- Fine Motor
Why we love it:
This isn’t just a letter puzzle—it’s a letter relationship puzzle. As your child matches uppercase and lowercase pairs, they’re building the visual recognition and memory they’ll use when they start sounding out words, recognizing names, and eventually writing their own. Try saying the sound together as they snap each piece in:
“That’s a B! Buh like banana!” Or go on a hunt: “Can you find the key that fits the letter S lock?”
This is also great for building fine motor skills. Pincer grasp, anyone? Each lock and key has just enough resistance to challenge their fingers. That means this puzzle is secretly strengthening the muscles they’ll use for writing, tying shoes, buttoning coats, and zipping backpacks.
Pouch 2: Memory Game
This isn’t just any memory game—it’s out of this world! Planets, rockets, moons, and stars all come together in a colorful, space-themed challenge made for curious little explorers. But beyond the fun of flipping and finding, this activity is doing so much more beneath the surface—helping kids strengthen attention, boost working memory, and develop essential skills they’ll use in and out of the classroom.
Emerging Skills Focus:
- Pre-academics
- Fine Motor
- Social Emotional
Why we love it:
Matching games help kids build working memory—that magical brain skill that lets them hold onto information and use it. In school, this turns into following directions, solving problems, and learning routines. And with space-themed pieces, you’ve got bonus early science learning built right in. Try narrating as you go: “You found the moon! Let’s find its match.” “That’s a rocket—it helps astronauts travel to space!”
Your kiddo’s little hands flipping over the tiles one by one is fine motor magic in action.
Picking up, turning, and placing cards helps refine their coordination and grip. Memory games are also a beautiful introduction to social play. Kids practice waiting their turn, celebrating each other’s matches, and managing disappointment when it’s not their flip. They will also stay engaged (even if they’ve seen that Mars tile three times!).
There’s joy in the challenge—and pride in every pair they find.
Want to extend the play?
- Use the cards to sort by type: planets, meteors, etc.
- Create a story: “The rocket goes from Earth to the moon—what happens next?”
- Add movement: Place cards around the room and “fly” to each one before flipping it over!
Pouch #3: Snap-Together Links
They’re bright. They snap. They twist. They bend. And they almost always become something—a snake, a necklace, letters, shapes, whatever your kiddo wants to create. These snap-together links aren’t just fun to fiddle with—they’re quietly helping your child strengthen muscles, motor skills, focus, and creativity every time they twist and snap a new shape into being.
Emerging Skills Focus:
- Fine motor
- Patterns, sorting, creative thinking
Why we love it:
These links provide a starting point for STEM thinking. As kids connect and arrange them, they begin to explore early concepts, such as color recognition: “Can you find two green ones?” This activity is also great for developing patterning and problem-solving skills, like “Can you make a hot pink-blue-hot pink-blue chain that bends?” And because they move in so many directions, kids naturally start inventing—each one a little engineering moment in disguise. This is a fine motor workout kids don’t even know they’re doing. Every snap and twist builds finger strength and grip, as well as hand-eye coordination and bilateral coordination—using both hands together purposefully. And unlike some toys, these are designed to be fidgeted with. That means they’re also perfect for calming busy hands in a restaurant, waiting room, or during a quiet moment at home.
Loose Creative
Our fall-themed coloring book pairs adorable seasonal scenes (think apples, owls, acorns, and all the leaves) with sticker sheets and crayons—designed for little hands and big imaginations.
Emerging Skills Focus:
- Fine motor
- Social emotional
Why we love it:
Coloring themed images helps build vocabulary and world knowledge—especially around seasonal changes. As you color together, you’re also introducing autumn-themed words like “harvest,” “scarecrow,” and “cider." You're also developing observational skills: “What color are the leaves on this tree?” Let them enjoy some storytelling: “What’s the squirrel doing with that acorn?” Coloring with crayons helps build strength and supports the transition to pencils later on. There’s no right or wrong way to color a pumpkin. Giving your child that freedom fosters decision-making and independence. “Should the leaves be red, yellow, or purple today?” Coloring can help regulate emotions and create a peaceful, screen-free pause in a busy day.
