Yoto Mini Card Storage Hack You’ll Wish You Tried Sooner
Wait! I've upgraded our card system, and you can read about that here in this blog post, which includes a video tutorial!
As home schoolers, I jumped on the Yoto trend as soon as I heard about it. We have loved them so much, and I wanted to share our card organization system to people looking into getting a Yoto.
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Here are the links to all the things mentioned in this post:
Headphones for kids
Sticker Paper for printers
You can use these printables to make your cards. Just click on the pictures, download, and print them onto the sticker paper.
I did lots of research and decided on this set up of Make Your Own cards. I printed these colors off of my regular printer onto sticker paper sheets, cut them out by hand and stuck them on the back of the MYO cards to distinguish them from each other. Then I added these sticky tabs to each one and put them on a cable key ring. This makes it so that the kids can distinguish the cards from each other but I don't have to constantly be buying more cards or changing the covers.
Why you don’t need more cards
It's also good to limit the amount of cards they have because not all of them get used, so we only have 5 on each key ring and I think that has seemed like it's plenty. I have 1 card as their bible stories, 1 card is their favorite music, and the rest are various stories they like. I plan to have more in the future for different subjects for school as I find resources that are audio.
A note about headphones
The last thing we added to their Yoto was kid headphones! They have loved them so much and I think they love the control they have over their own devices. I got them headphones that coordinate in color to their Yoto, so each kid has their own color and knows which one is theirs. These are specifically for kids, meaning the volume is lower than adult headphones, plus they fit perfectly on their little heads. We've had no issues with our so far. These ones do have cords, which can be a choking hazard, but I figured I'd rather use those with supervision until I know for sure that bluetooth is safe for them.
Final thoughts
If I end up liking this system a lot, I will probably buy transparent overlays to protect the cards since a few cards will get a lot of wear and tear.
A few important things I've learned:
The tutorial card that comes with the Yoto is a MYO card!
If you buy the story cards you can link it to an MYO card. So I plan to have a key ring full of master copies that my kids can flip through to pick stories.
There is so much customization that can happen on a Yoto. You can control what the buttons do, the volume limit, and so much more! Explore all the settings!
My favorite place to buy audio books has been Libro.fm They have amazing sales all the time!
See the updates on how our card system is working!
