Custom Curiosity Box

Create a personal treasure box, with practical guidance to help you explore it together.

For £24.99, you receive our wooden Custom Curiosity Box, a coordinating cotton Timeless Presents tote bag and practical guidance with ideas for introducing and exploring your chosen collection. Optional contents are purchased separately, so you can choose objects that reflect your person’s interests, abilities, preferences and circumstances.

The box brings together warm wood, vintage-style straps, brass-coloured fittings and varied textures in a design that invites a closer look. The box itself is part of the experience, with details that can be seen, touched and explored.

Choose from tactile, visual, musical and interactive objects, adding to the collection over time if you wish. Keep them together in the box, or use the tote to carry and introduce a few selected items when visiting or spending time together.

The aim is to offer interesting things to encounter in the present moment. Familiar shapes, materials, sounds and ways of handling may help an object feel approachable, without requiring someone to remember, explain or complete an activity. An item might be held, moved, listened to, talked about, used in an unexpected way or simply noticed.

Our included guidance helps you begin exploring together, following your person’s interest and response. There are no rules and no expected response, just opportunities to discover what interests them and spend time together.

Please consider the individual, their circumstances and the environment when choosing and using items. Supervision may be appropriate for some people and items.

The Custom Curiosity Box and its optional contents have not been assessed or accredited by the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC).