We gave our daughter a Yoto Mini (an audiobook player with no ads) for Christmas, and I am obsessed with creating Make Your Own cards! Daniel gave me a mini sticker printer (that prints via bluetooth from your phone) with the idea of me using it in my planner…but it is also the perfect size for labeling these cards!

We bought the Yoto Paw Patrol Pup Pack cards (one card per pup, with a biography and stories about each). Our daughter listens to the pup cards over and over and over. We also have a protective case and a card case.

We also bought Make Your Own (MYO) cards. Before we gave all of this to her, I recorded myself reading various Christmas books, and loaded then on a DIY Christmas card, and included this in the present. She loved it!

Then, when we went home for Christmas to see family, we asked each family member to record themselves reading to her. I put those recordings on another MYO card. This is one of her favorites!

This card is especially special because we recorded my Granny reading The Cat in the Hat. It’s a great memory of her.

I also made MYO cards with books that are in the public domain, including The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Our daughter loves listening in the car or while she’s playing with LEGOs or coloring.

I love the Yoto Mini because it is screen free and ad free, so I can limit what she’s exposed to.

We all know we should read to our children. Sarah Mackenzie writes in The Read-Aloud Family,

“Studies show that babies who are read to as young as six months old have stronger vocabularies and better literacy skills four whole years later”

Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family

See my review of The Read-Aloud Family here.

With the Yoto, our daughter can listen to us reading to her whenever she wants, and however many times she wants, therefore increasing the number of words that we are introducing!

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