Learning Resources Create-a-Space Kiddy Caddy Pets Review

Reviewed by Joanna Woodburn

As a teacher, the Create-a-Space Kiddy Caddy Pets, age 3-7 years, from the highly acclaimed Learning Resources company arrived at just the right time! With the start of the school year on the horizon, my thoughts turn to classroom preparation and organisation and ways to make the learning environment appealing and fun. For parents gearing themselves up for back to school and organising their children’s equipment in ways which appeal, this Create-a-Space storage solution ticks all the boxes and is perfect for use both at school and at home.

The award-winning Learning Resources company have been relied on by parents and teachers for over 35 years, helping children to learn through play. Learning Resources are synonymous with dependability and high quality – ‘recommended by teachers, trusted by parents and loved by children’.

The Create-a-Space Kiddy Caddy Pets, is a younger take on the most popular Create-a-Space organisational range, which I personally have used and relied on for many years! The storage system has chunky cups in bright primary colours, featuring two dogs and two cats in each caddy. For a busy classroom, I also can’t express enough how useful the simple, lazy Susan rotating base will prove to be! This storage system is bound to be the talk of the classroom or the new star in the home!

As a specialist Literacy and Dyslexia teacher, I am often asked by parents for suggestions to make homework easier, particularly after the long summer break and back to school. I am always on the lookout for discrete and child-friendly ways to encourage children to write, draw and mark make. The Create-a-Space Kiddy Caddy Pets is the perfect answer – the bright and bold colours are so striking that children (and grown ups!) will have friendly visual cues to encourage them to put pen or pencil to paper.

Learning Works have not missed a trick – making a functional product fun and quirky, each pet can be used with or without the rotating base. As a teacher, this naturally leads me to think about creative ways that this simple, effective idea can be used in the classroom. For example, thinking about class groups, the portable colourful pet cups could be sorted by pets or colours on tables, making life easy for teacher as well as teaching children early about organisation skills. This portable organiser scores top marks for its multi-use and flexible features.

Designed with children at heart, the Create-a-Space Kiddy Caddy Pets is also perfectly sized for children’s little hands and fingers which means children can use it easily by themselves, promoting independent ways of working. being child-sized, the colourful pet cups are also robust and strong enough to handle all supplies from scissors to crayons and much more. With good, comfortable portability, when things are needed on the go, I was also impressed by the durable, Easy-Grip Handle, which was also obviously designed with little hands in mind.

On a desk, shelf or in the middle of a table the Create-a-Space Kiddy Caddy Pets is guaranteed to look the part – fun, friendly and functional it is the perfect storage solution for both the classroom and the home and as both a teacher and a mum I would highly recommend!

Rating: 5/5

RRP: £

This product can be purchased from Learning Resources here.