{disclaimer ~ Ivy Kids is a blog sponsor and sent us a kit for this review}

Our love for Ivy Kids Kits continues! These continue to be the best monthly subscription kits I have seen.

Not familiar with Ivy Kids Kits?

Ivy Kits are a monthly educational subscription for children ages 3-8 developed by early childhood teachers with children of their own. You can tell these kits were developed by people who truly know young kids.  The activities are awesome. Not only can you subscribe to a monthly kit, you can also buy past kits.

Each Ivy Kit contains instructions with ways to modify games to best suit each individual child and provide adults with questions to structure a child’s learning. There are enough games and materials in each kit to engage and cognitively stimulate a child throughout the month and can be replayed for years to come.

We were sent Mrs. McTats and Her Houseful of Cats for this review.  Here’s ALL that was included in this kit:

• The humorous and heartwarming book Mrs. McTats and Her Houseful of Cats by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. 
• Read along Bookmark: Use to assist with reading comprehension.
• Houseful of Cats: Paint the beautiful wooden house and use it along with the cat figures to retell the story
• Story Re-telling: Use the board and cat figures to retell the story of Mrs. McTats and Her Houseful of Cats that have names from A to Z. 
• Cat Puppet: Create your own cat puppet with a personalized name collar 
• Cat Bingo: Learn about the different cat species while playing bingo. The person to get 3 cats in a row gets bingo.
• Houseful of Pets – Roll and Stick: Roll the dice, find the number rolled, and cover the number with a colorful cat or dog sticker. Keep rolling the dice until you have found all the hidden numbers and your house is full of pets!
• Find Your Way Home Board Game: Players take turns moving the cat pawns along the alphabetical path until each cat has reached the house at the end of the board
• Kitty Bank: Use the paints to decorate your own cute and functional kitty bank.
• Cat Fact Boards and Trivia: Learn fun and interesting facts about cats and solve the trivia questions
• Cat Race – Roll and Stamp: Choose from 3 different racing sheets! Player counts the number rolled and then stamps the column displaying that numerical symbol. Continue rolling until the cats reach the top of at least one column. Whichever column has the most cats wins the race.
• 100 Cats: What does 100 cats look like? Find out by stamping 100 cats onto the hundreds board.
• Word Families: The first player to collect all the word cards that belong to his or her word family wins the game.  
• Cat Alphabet: Color these uniquely formed letters. For silly fun, try to use your own body to make the different letter shapes.

She was SO excited to open our box and see CATS! She loves cats!

She immediately asked to go read the book and she loved it! Not so sure the dog loved a book all about cats!

 

Activities From Our Box…

She chose to do the story-retelling activity first and loved all of the little kitties!

She always loves the games that are included, I think spending more time with me and playing together is a highlight!

 

She is a craft-loving girl and this one was a favorite!

 

 

She loved the Cat Facts game, the pictures were awesome!

 

She is a bit too old for rhyming so we just peeked at it quickly.

 

We played BINGO a few times, which she loved!

 

She loved playing “A Houseful of Cats,” and so did I! I loved that there were varying levels included, we played a few different ways.

 

Her very favorite was the kitty bank craft! She also loved the little cat house!

 

 

We continue to just LOVE Ivy Kids and are thankful to have these boxes! You can buy this kit here!

We also loved our A House for Hermit Crab kit, Penguin & Pinecone kit, Gotta Go! Gotta Go! kit and Over in the Ocean!

  

 

 

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A huge thanks to Ivy Kids for sending us these kits to review. If you are looking for a simple way to do unit studies with your young child, I highly recommend Ivy Kids Kits!

When you subscribe to Ivy Kids, each month you will receive a very well organized kit containing a book and ten or more activities based upon the story. Everything you need to learn and play is included in your kit. I mean EVERYthing. These kits are incredible!