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Looking for a non-chocolate treat for the kids this Easter?
If your kids are anything like mine, they’ll already be looking forward to their annual Easter egg hunt, enthusiastically heading outside with their bunny ears in place ready to track down eggs that have been strategically hidden around the garden, before cracking them open to reveal some sweet treats hidden inside. It’s lots of fun and the girls always have a great time, but in most cases, it’s all over very quickly with the chocolate ripped open and consumed within minutes.
If you’re looking for something a little different this Easter; why not hide some themed Easter Yoto cards in your eggs instead?
Yoto has released some brand new Yoto cards this Easter, that can easily bring screen-free fun for the Easter holidays – something that’ll be enjoyed long after those chocolate eggs have been consumed!
We’ve been lucky enough to have a sneak peek of the brand-new Yoto titles and with some much-loved characters making a long awaited appearance, there’s plenty of choice for Easter-themed Yoto fun.
New Yoto Cards for Easter & Spring
A selection of BRAND NEW Yoto cards landed in the UK on 30th March 2023 just in time for Easter, including four new Preschool cards featuring much-loved characters. If you’re planning something different in your Easter Egg Hunts this year, these new cards will make a wonderful surprise to crack open in their eggs! Here’s what you need to know.
1) Percy the Park Keeper Collection
RRP £9.99 | Age Suitability: 3+ | Running Time: 53 minutes
Percy the Park Keeper is such a wholesome character – who works hard to look after the park and all the animals who live there including foxes, badgers, the owl, mice and mole, battling the seasons, adverse weather and more. With 7 short stories lasting around 7-9 minutes in duration, they make a wonderful bedtime story and are a perfect Yoto card for Spring.
2) Oi Frog & Friends
RRP £9.99 | Age Suitability: 3+| Running Time: 34 minutes
Children adore the award-winning Oi Frog! series from Kes Gray and Jim Field thanks to its laugh out loud rhymes with ditties such as ‘Cats sit on mats, hares sit on chairs, mules sit on stools and gophers sit on sofas.’
With over one million copies of the original sold, this stories may be short but they’re perfectly formed, with Oi Dog, Oi Cat, Oi Duck Billed Platypus, Oi Puppies and Oi Aadrvark joining the fun.
3) Where’s Spot and other stories
RRP £9.99 | Age Suitability: 2-5 years | Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
A great nostalgic choice, parents will be over the moon to see Spot join the Yoto library – the much loved puppy created by Eric Hill.
This Yoto card features 24 Spot stories ranging between two and ten minutes long – perfect for a quick listen before bed. Neve loves Spot’s First Picnic ad Spot Follows his Nose in these adorable fun-filled adventures.
4) The Mog Collection
RRP £9.99 | Age Suitability: 2- 5 years| Running Time: 1 hour 5 mins
He’s been around for 50 years but Mog is BACK to Yoto and this time you can get 5 delightful Mog stories all on one card in this awesome Mog Collection. From Mog and the Baby to Mog’s Christmas, these 10-15 minute stories feature this beloved forgetful cat who just wants to be loved. ‘Bother that cat!’
Other Spring & Easter Themed Yoto Cards
1) The Tales of Peter Rabbit
RRP £9.99 | Age Suitability: All ages| Running Time: 49 minutes
A childhood rite of passage (and everyone’s favourite bunny), this card has been part of the Yoto Library for a while, but makes the perfect Easter gift. Featuring The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The Tailor of Gloucester. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. The Tale of Tom Kitten, these classic tales are comforting and heartwarming in equal measure.
2) Ladybird Audio Adventures On The Farm
RRP £9.99 | Age Suitability: 5-8 years | Running Time: 51 minutes
if you fancy an educational choice for your Yoto Easter Hunt, this Ladybird Audio Adventure makes a great choice. A fun, engaging and entertaining way to learn all about the farm, children will join adventurers Otto and Missy as they learn all about everything from animals to machinery and crops.
3) Springtime Stories
RRP £9.99| Age Suitability: 5-8 years| Running Time: 4 hours 9 minutes
If you want to get your money’s worth – this Enid Blyton Spring Stories collection has a running time of over 4 hours, with 30 classic stories that celebrate all things Spring. From lambs to Easter eggs, rabbits and April showers, these comforting adventures will have little ones desperate for just one more story before bed!
What other cards could you use for a Yoto Easter Hunt?
There are lots of other cards that would work for an Easter / Spring theme including:
Yoto have also added their own recommendations in the Yoto store – look out for the Egg symbol for their favourite Easter Yoto Card suggestions.
How to make your own Yoto Easter Hunt
Want to host your own Easter Egg Hunt this year? You’ll need a good selection of eggs, gift boxes or Easter-themed gift bags in which to hide your Yoto cards. Don’t forget Yoto card dimensions are around the size of a credit card (15.5 x 10.1 x 1.3cm) or about a cm bigger if you wish to keep them inside their original packaging.
As such, you need to use rather large eggs in order for them to fit. We got our giant egg tins and egg boxes from Flying Tiger, but their sheep drawstring bags also worked really well too.
However you choose to celebrate, we wish you all a happy and healthy Easter!
Lucy and family xxx
