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How big is a MYO Card?
For all the basics and to chat to technical support if you get stuck.
Memory scrapbook
Looking for MYO inspiration?
Use these prompts to help!
Ideas for what to make
Capturing childhood with a MYO scrapbook
Looking for some 'make your own' inspiration?
Here are two sets of prompts you can use to have a conversation with your child, to capture a snapshot of what they're doing and how they're feeling at ...
Use MYO for custom voice messages
Record a set of MYO voice message tracks to play to your children's player(s) via the app e.g. "It's dinner time, stop what you're doing and get yourself down to the kitchen, please!" etc.
Top 5 Project Ideas
Here’s five cool projects to try with Make Your Own Cards on Yoto:
Get a friend or relative to record themselves reading a bedtime story
Create a card singing Happy Birthday and decorate the cover with ...
Writing an Original Story
We asked our very own Jake for some of his top tips for writing an original story, here they are to help you on your way. Please let us know what you think:
Think of an idea. Yep, there’s no way around...
MYO Card Ideas thread - add yours!
Use this post to share creative ideas for how to use a MYO card. Comment below with your idea!
•Reading books (recording via phone, using Novel Effect, books purchased from outside sources)
•Telling a ...
Field Recording and Making Soundscapes
Field Recording is a fancy name for going outside (or sometimes inside) and recording the sounds we hear around us. I love to use these sounds to create soundscapes, real and imagined, and sound ...
How to make a board game into a Yoto Card
The first step in making a board game into a Yoto experience is to make sure that you are legally free to use it, and we go into that over in this article.
Games in the public domain ...
How to make an interactive story
We all hear about the choices that make us who we are.
In the 1970’s Edward Packard created a concept of second person storytelling in books where the reader was able to “choose your own ...
Creating a recipe card
Here are three tip-tips from the team at Yoto behind our Baking With Yoto card.
We're excited to hear some of your original creations. Please feel free to add to these tips in the comments below.
1. ...
Editing Audio
Pixel Art
I found myself irrationally annoyed at the lack of a search engine when selecting a pixel icon for tracks on a playlist. So I asked an LLM to fix it. Lol, just kidding. In lieu of fixing it though, I ...
A great tutorial for getting started with pixel art on Yoto, with some more advanced tips towards the end.
We love this tutorial from YouTube creator TheSimpleHaus on how to add, edit and create Pixel Art to your Make Your Own cards.
They also take a look at the Yoto Icons page where there's a thriving ...
Families often tell us they love are the icons that show up on the pixel displays of Yoto Players and Yoto Minis alongside stories, music or activities.
They’re a great way to create an extra layer of ...