Kiddie Cats Child Care & Learning Center

11/03/2025

Officially announcing that the 🎃👻 Panda Room 👻🎃 won our center's Halloween Door Decorating Competition! We were collectively swooned by our little cubs and their spookily crocheted ghostly footprints! 🐼🥰😍🐾

Each of our doors were made into hauntingly adorable Halloween masterpieces--our teachers and kiddos absolutely monster mashed it! 🪦🧟 And above all, we are extremely proud of the artistic creativity and imagination that each of our teachers and children provided to make the competition festive, fun, and inclusive!

Thank you to everyone who helped make this competition a new fall favorite and to our friends and family members for always supporting our mission. We couldn't provide without you. 💕

Love,
The Kiddie Cats Crew

10/31/2025

Spooky friends, we need your help! 👻🧡

Our kiddos and teachers went ALL OUT on their Halloween door decorating contest and now it’s YOUR turn to pick your favorite! 🎃🗳️

🕒 Voting closes TODAY at 4:00 PM — so scroll through the doors, pick the one that makes you smile/scream/snort-laugh, and drop your vote in the comments! 👇

Feel free to hype up your child’s room 😉 🧙‍♀️🕸️🦇 The classroom that wins gets a spooooky surprise! 🎃

Thank you for showing our classrooms some Halloween love! 🧡🧡🧡

10/20/2025

Sending a huge thank you to everyone who joined in on our Staff Incentive T-Shirt Fundraiser! You helped make it a roaring success, and we can’t wait to see our community rocking those pawsome new shirts! 😻🎉

Keep an eye on your inbox — Midwest Printed will be sending out an email soon with pickup details once your items are ready at their store.

Thanks for always showing up with so much love and support — you make our Kiddie Cats family the best around! 💛

Much Love,
The Kiddie Cats Crew

10/07/2025

Our t-shirt campaign ends tonight at midnight! Help us give back to our amazing staff by purchasing a t-shirt/hat/bag! 💙💛😻 $5.00 from every item purchased goes directly back to our hardworking staff. Our mailing address is 25 3rd St. N, PO Box 93 in Dakota City for anyone interested in donating to our cause in other ways! Thank you for the continued love and support! 💙💛💙

Online ordering for Kiddie Cats Childcare Fundraiser Store ends on Tue, Oct 7, 2025 (11:59 PM CDT)

09/29/2025

💙💛Hello Kiddie Cats Family! 💛💙

We’re launching a t-shirt fundraiser (with the help of our local print shop, Midwest Printed), to help support one of the most important parts of our center—our incredible staff.

Every day, our team shows up with heart, dedication, and care. They build relationships, nurture growth, and create a safe, welcoming space for everyone who walks through our doors. But in order to keep doing this vital work, we need to make sure they’re paid fairly and supported fully. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we need help from the community to provide our staff with what they greatly deserve.

💬 Why does this matter?
• Competitive wages help us retain amazing staff who know our community and care deeply about our youngest community members.
• Fair pay allows us to recognize their hard work and incentivize their passion, love, and dedication.
• Investing in our team means investing in the future of our children and our center.

By purchasing an item from our store, you’re not just getting a comfy, stylish way to show your support—you’re helping us continue to build a strong, sustainable foundation for the people who make this place thrive.

🛒 Order yours today and wear your support proudly! $5.00 of every purchase goes directly toward incentives for our staff. 📦 https://kiddiecats25.itemorder.com/shop/category/500889/

Please feel free to share with friends and family! There is a ship to home option for our distant loved ones! 💙

Thank you for standing with us, and with our staff.

Love,
The Kiddie Cats Crew 😻👕🐾

Online ordering for Kiddie Cats Childcare Fundraiser Store ends on Tue, Oct 7, 2025 (11:59 PM CDT)

08/07/2025

🍋😺🐾When life gives Kiddie Cats lemons...

They raise almost $400 in one morning! 🎉🐾😻

Our lemonade stand was a zesty success, and our little entrepreneurs were bursting with pride after every customer!

They practiced teamwork and poured with purpose, and they SOLD that lemonade with everything they had! 😅

Today, we saw confident smiles, sticky fingers, and the sweetest customer service you’ve ever seen! 😍

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to sip, smile, and support — you helped turn a fun morning into a powerful lesson in hard work, appreciation, and giving back! We couldn't do this without you.

All our love (and lemonade),
The Kiddie Cats Crew

08/07/2025

We are here and SO excited to see you! 🍋☀️😊

08/07/2025

🍋 Our school-agers are hosting a free will donation lemonade stand this morning from 9am to 12pm outside our front entrance to learn all about money management, teamwork, and working together toward a specific shared goal!

All proceeds made today will go directly toward new learning activities for our school-aged program (as chosen by our school-agers)!

See you there! 🍋⛱️☀️

07/16/2025

Some mornings, we witness a kind of love that doesn’t announce itself.
It doesn’t beg to be noticed.
It simply is—steady, unwavering, whole.

It lives in the doorways—
in the soft crack of a parent’s voice as they murmur,
“I’ve got to go… see you soon… I love you,” as their heart folds itself in half.

It lives in the stillness after a child lets go, in the eyes that linger through glass
long after little feet have run toward play, and in the deep exhale and heavy receding footsteps we hear when a parent walks away.

We see it.

We see the way your love is fluent—
how you understand your child’s needs
before they can name them.
How you speak their unique language,
anticipate their pauses,
wrap your whole being around their growing hearts.

We see it in the subtle, intimate mind—
the sacred space inside you
where their name is always echoing,
where their safety is your prayer,
where you carry love as well as guilt and the weight of both presence and absence at once. We see how strong you are. How everything you do is for them. Always for them.

You don’t ask to be seen.
You don’t need applause.
But if you’re reading this and wondering if what you’re doing is enough—
if your invisible efforts matter—
let this be your reminder:

Yes. A thousand times, yes.

Your gentleness is power.
Your consistency is devotion.
Your love—especially the quiet kind—is reshaping the world your child will grow into with purpose and intent.

And even on the days you feel like you’re unraveling—the ones where you sit in your car a little longer and stare blankly into the space in front of you before pulling out of the drive—the ones that are heavy and stained with tears that you may or may not hold back—
you are still holding everything together.

And we are so honored to be witnesses to your quiet, extraordinary love.

Love,
The Kiddie Cats Crew