We were lucky enough to be asked to review some items from the extremely cool Funky Watch website; which offers gifts an accessories for kids. Stuntboy and Chatterbox just so happened to both like the lunch boxes in the site, so tea for two it was…
Design and value
The designs for these are lovely. Knights for a boy and cupcakes for the girl – and I know that’s stereotyped, but its what my little ones wanted. It was lovely to be able to choose original designs rather than something that was branded with an annoying princess, or a slightly deranged superhero. I get enough deranged-ness from the kids.
The price of the lunch boxes are a little more than I would have expected for un-branded goods without a beaker, or sandwich boxes included.
Funky Watch review: Stuntboy with his lunch bag
What do the kids think?
They loved them as soon as they arrived. My son immediately transferred all his beakers and sandwiches boxes from his old one, with great excitement. Knights eat sandwiches after all, you see.
What does mummy think?
Practically, these are good. They are wipe clean – rather important for lunches, and very solid. They do come flat packed and have yet to take their proper shape, but that’s not a major problem. The main downside is that, as with most lunch bags, there is a rim on the inside around the edge. This is where all left over food goes to die; so you have to be careful you clean in all the nooks and crannies.
What they lack in terms of sneaky places for your food to hide, the lunch boxes make up by being sturdy. Their handles in particular seem to survive a lot of swinging about well. Not from me you understand…
Overall 8/10
We liked these. The kids love them, and with a couple of provisos, so do us parents.
We were sent the product for review for free, all opinions are our own though.
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine!Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time.KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10.It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania.Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!