Make the people in your life cheer with excitement when you send them one of the best adult or kids subscription boxes. Monthly subscription boxes in Canada are a unique gift idea for any age. We know the top-rated educational and entertaining boxes for kids. And we have the scoop on popular beauty, food and book subscription boxes for men and women, too!
You can’t beat the feeling of happy mail and a surprise in your mailbox! We know the feeling! Give that feeling to your friends and family with these creative subscription boxes and services that you’re going to love to give and receive. Just in time for the biggest gift-giving season of the year.
Parent-Approved Canadian Subscription Boxes for Kids
Artshine Art In A Box
‘Artshine in a Box’ is our new visual arts subscription service. Your child will receive an exciting art kit each month that explores a different theme and art medium and includes an online video and printed tutorial. Choose a box specific to your child’s age and ability.
Cucina Kids Cooking Subscription Box
Canada’s coolest kid’s cooking subscription box! Created by kids, for kids. Celebrates Canadian history, customs and cuisine. Supports kid’s personal development and creates family time opportunities.
Cubby Kits
We’ve fit developmental expertise into a box, so you can fit it into your life! Focusing on skills generally emerging in toddlers and preschoolers, and inspired by the learning needs of children with autism and other developmental delays, Cubby Kits is an enriching experience for any child. Each kit contains an activity guide and theme-based toys that explore at least one area of development – receptive or expressive language skills, fine motor skills, literacy, etc. to help you play smarter!
four bears sticker club
Great things come in small packages and this is definitely true of stickers – tiny bits of happy that are easy to share! Choose from our Big Kids pack (geared toward adults) or our Little Kids pack (3+) – both are chock full of sticker sheets you won’t find anywhere else! These are great for snail mail, planners, bullet journals, and scrapbooks and make a great mess-free craft for kids (and what parent couldn’t use a little bit of that?). Start sticking, collecting and sharing them today!
Letters From Afar
Each month, open your mailbox to find a letter addressed to you. Accompanied by vibrant illustrations, field notes, and a map, your monthly letter will whisk you away on a literary adventure to a land far, far away. You’ll learn about different cultures, cuisines, wildlife, landmarks, oddities, heritages, and more! We have been subscribers for years now and love it.
marmalade books
Marmalade Books is a monthly children’s books subscription service. Curated by a children’s books specialist with 25+ years of experience. We choose only the best, recently published books from Canada, Britain and the United States. Located in and shipping from Victoria, British Columbia.
Mail Order Mysteries
We deliver mysteries for kids through the mail. Over a number of weeks, your child receives letters and objects from the characters in the mystery. Ships from Ontario, and personally recommended by Amber.
owl, chirp, chickadee magazines
Owlkids is dedicated to encouraging a life-long love of reading. We publish a family of magazines — Chirp (ages 3 to 6), chickaDEE Magazine (ages 6 to 9), and OWL (ages 9 to 13) — as well as books for kids of all ages. Owlkids’ magazines offer quality, engaging, timely, and FUN content. They are bursting with activities, animal facts, jokes, comics, feature stories, puzzles, and more…and personally recommended by Amber.
Raven Reads
Raven Reads is a Canadian seasonal subscription service that features quality, award-winning Indigenous content and products curated from Indigenous authors and entrepreneurs across North America. Both Kids and Adults boxes available.
ruby crate
Ruby Crate is the Canadian subscription box for tween and teen girls. It is filled with gems – treasures of beauty, style and self-expression that can be enjoyed each season. With many subscription boxes marketed towards women, none tailor specifically to tween and teen girls. Ruby Crate was born to cater to the younger generation’s needs and wants – providing an excellent opportunity to create a new box with fun treasures for our girls that are theirs, and theirs alone.
Sticker party!
Sticker Party is a monthly sticker subscription for kids! It comes with a retro-style sticker book and each monthly set of stickers includes 5 sticker sheets, 3 die-cut stickers, 1 sticker activity, 6 off-the-roll stickers and 1 scratch-n-sniff sticker sheet. That’s hundreds of stickers! All for $49 CAD!
World In A Box
https://worldinabox.ca/World in a Box is a Canadian subscription box for kids. Your little one discovers a country’s geography, wildlife, traditions and more. Hands-on activities, games, STEAM projects and crafts ignite your kid’s natural creativity. Have fun and learn about the world! Discount code: activeparents20. This coupon can be applied at the checkout and will give 20% off any first subscription, gift or one-time kit. It can not be used together with other coupons/promotions. Shop World in a Box here.
Wild Life Outdoor Adventure
Get your family off of technology and outdoors and moving with games, toys, gear and equipment for curious minds from Wild Life Outdoor Adventure. There is a variety of single purchase themed boxes to choose from as well as 3 and 6 kit purchasing options. Each curated box is full of outdoor gear and ready for adventure.
Gift-worthy Canadian Subscription Boxes for Women and men
splendid greetings
It’s time to start mailing your loved one’s cards, monthly! Monthly box will include high quality cards from a variety of occasions. They will be reflective of the month you receive them (E.g. Christmas card in December box etc). Boxes will always include new releases and exclusive card designs you won’t see anywhere else! Order one box or subscribe monthly. Ships from Ontario, and personally recommended by Amber.
Acre 75 Gathered
“Each season, we collaborate with small town makers across Canada to curate our Acre75 Gathered boxes —proudly promoting their locally-made goods and putting their little towns on the map.” Subscribe and receive 4 boxes or purchase a pre-purchase a single holiday box. You’ll receive local handmade products by artists from small towns (of fewer than 30,000 people) across Canada. It’s been described as “a small town road trip in a box.”
Southern Ontario’s Community Haul
Community Haul is a monthly subscription box designed to celebrate local businesses and help reboot the local economy. By helping you discover your local alternatives every month we hope that you will continue to shop and support locals through all aspects of your life. Each month, subscribers receive 4-6 products from different Southern Ontario small businesses. We have 2 subscription options available – The Long Haul and No Strings Attached.
Sweet Peas Baby
A hip and helpful subscription and gift box service arriving quarterly, for new moms and their sweet peas ages 0- 36 months. Our items are carefully chosen for their quality and uniqueness, which are made & designed by local Canadian vendors, small shops and artisans, giving our boxes a nice mix of “tried & true” staple items and “hip & hot” baby gear. All this makes us the Ultimate Baby Box!
Klondike Kettle Corn
Meet Katie – a mom, outdoor adventurer, and foodie who loves to be surrounded by my family, friends, and community – the perfect fit for a popcorn-preneur! Having worked in restaurants from the age of 16, as well as catering businesses, and camp kitchens, it seemed like a natural move to create a business that was all about bringing people together with fresh and delicious, ready-to-eat popcorn.
the extraordinary man
Every 90 days you will receive our carefully considered selection of the finest products that we actively sought out for you—saving you time and money without conceding quality. Because everyone deserves home, healthy and beauty products. Ships from B.C.
The Good Lane
Seasonal subscription boxes are sent 4 times a year and contain sustainably sourced, ethically made, eco-friendly products. You can feel good knowing you are supporting “small businesses that are making a difference.” The Good Lane is based out of Cochrane, Alberta.
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