This is by one of the Kindergarteners I was Substitute Teaching for this year the day before Halloween in Las Vegas. These kids LOVED picking their animal from my order form with 26 animals on it, choosing the bat, coloring it, cutting it out and turning it into a ornament to hang on their door for Trick or Treating that weekend. So cute!!

This is a CCSD High School student taking an Art Break while preparing for end of year testing. I was surprised how interested the older kids have become in coloring as a way to take a mental break during school. It makes sense because it relieves stress no matter what age. I've noticed kids really like chatting about their creative process and how they decide which colors to use as they plan out what they want their final image to look like. It's a part of our minds that sit

This is one of the students in a Primary Autism class where I was a Substitute Teacher in Las Vegas this year. He was a joyful and pretty easy going student and he worked to focus on his lessons throughout the day though he wasn't as interested in coloring butterflies like a lot of the students were throughout most of the days I was there. What I noticed is that when I was on Bus Duty, the exciting journey at the end of the day (if you're new or don't know about Substitute Te

This is me cutting out the Baby Ducks from my Dopamine Art Series as a Digital Download you can pull down and print out as often as you like. I turn these guys into a puppet and used them the next day as a Substitute Teacher for a group of 3rd graders who gut stuck inside almost all day when it rained recently in Las Vegas! It turned out to be a lot of fun and the kids put on a puppet show! Search my site for "puppet shows" to see the yellow duck show up in various settings.

This is one of the ornaments I made to share with kids while working on Substitute Teacher assignments for CCSD in Las Vegas this year. K-5 really like the ABCs Art Brain Breaks which makes sense since they're learning the alphabet, the idea of characters, settings, plots, and storylines but what's been surprising is how much the older kids and adults like them! I put this Swallowtail Butterfly holiday ornament together as an example of stuff you could make using my animal an

Wow, kids LOVE baby goats! I recommend if you have any Animal Farm fans at your house or school, get my Animal Farm Digital Download that includes about 14 animals you'll usually find on most farms. I have this one pictured to show you can easily turn them into ornaments, puppets, necklaces (yep, kids turn them into jewelry). I do advise you color them in before cutting and taping and or paste because the color may look different if you do it over tape or paste after you've

Outside Sac's Downtown HackerLab location We did a field trip up from Oakland to Sacramento to check out the HackerLab there in Downtown...

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