Happy Mail by Art With Jenny vs Rumble Rigs

Where they differ

Both are art & prints, activities and stickers clubs. Rumble Rigs also covers letters; Happy Mail by Art With Jenny stays narrower.

Rumble Rigs is the cheaper of the two — $11/mo against $13/mo, roughly 15% 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.

Shipping is the one that rules a club out rather than in: Happy Mail by Art With Jenny ships to Worldwide, Rumble Rigs to Not stated.

Happy Mail by Art With Jenny addresses the post to the child by name; Rumble Rigs does not. That sounds minor and it is the detail people mention most often — the envelope being visibly theirs is most of the appeal for a younger child.

What each one sends

Happy Mail by Art With Jenny

A monthly art club made by Jenny, an elementary school art teacher who designs, illustrates, prints and mails every envelope herself. Each month has a brand-new theme built around a hands-on art project with step-by-step instructions, plus puzzles and games, a small creative challenge, stickers drawn for that month's theme and a few surprise extras. The envelope is addressed to your child by name, and the point is to make something rather than just read something.

Rumble Rigs

Built around a collectible card game about trucks, and unusually generous for the price. Every envelope has a hand-illustrated trading card with battle stats, a letter written from the rig's own perspective, a screen-free activity, an 11×17 blueprint poster with a playmat on the reverse, a die-cut sticker and a bonus paper activity. Ships on the 1st.

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.