abspaintco Animal Print Club vs Dear Little Thing

Where they differ

Both are art & prints, letters and nature clubs. abspaintco Animal Print Club covers stickers on top of that; Dear Little Thing stays narrower.

abspaintco Animal Print Club is the cheaper of the two — $8/mo against £14.99/mo, roughly 58% less on a monthly basis. Whether that gap means anything depends on what turns up: the dearer club is not automatically sending more, and on a gift the up-front total matters more than the monthly figure.

What each one sends

abspaintco Animal Print Club

A 5x7 watercolor print of a different animal each month, a matching sticker and a short letter from the artist about that animal. New-subscriber cutoff is the 10th, with mail going out the 12th to 15th.

Dear Little Thing

A handmade monthly letter written as if from a shy hedgehog, with short stories, drawings and small forest-themed keepsakes. Mailed from the United Kingdom with free worldwide shipping.

Which one to pick

We are not going to pretend there is a winner here — they are close enough to be on the same shortlist, which is why this page exists. What we would say is that the choice usually turns on the household rather than the club: how much adult time there is, whether the child reads independently yet, and whether you want post that asks something of them or post that simply arrives.

Read the full listings before deciding, and follow through to each club's own site — prices, terms and gift options are theirs to change and ours only to record.