My ABCs Alligators to Zebras Art Brain Break Activities Book has all kinds of animals and insects, one for each letter of the alphabet, for kids to cut out, color, and make ornaments, puppets, and jewelry. This is a great activity if you are a Substitute Teacher and are looking for something to have with you in our Sub Pack to work on when kids are done with the work their teacher assigned for them that day. Read more of my blogs to find examples and photos of the objects kid

This is one the students from a 2nd grade class where I was a Substitute Teacher at CCSD here in Las Vegas, November 2025. These kids really enjoyed the process of picking an animal from my ABCs Alligators to Zebras Art Brain Break Activity Book, coloring it however they like, then turning it into an ornament. This is the W is for Wolf page from the ABCs book. Love it! Total time to create this was maybe 15 minute and he was so proud of his artwork he got to take home. This w

I was working through my 26- animal ABCs Activity Book and just having fun not being precious or perfect about cutting out animals, coloring, using glitter glue and whatever I felt like trying. I actually cut it out and put it on the tree first, not colored in, and just left it there until I figured out what colors it wanted to be by where it was sitting on the tree. You can see I hole-punched it thinking it wanted to be an ornament. It still is, but it turns out it didn't ha

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

Here's the thing, you can play with these ABCs animal and insect cut outs and make all sort of little fun projects. I recently decided to sit in bed ALL DAY, with fuzzy socks, coffee, one of those bed working lap tables with a stack of my ABCs Art Brain Breaks. I put on my Likes playlist, set up the phone to record some of it just in case it looked fun, but really, I was so tired and just wanted a day where I wasn't accomplishing anything and not just binging Netflix. It was

This Swallowtail Butterfly is part of my ABCs Art Brain Breaks Activity Book which is a Digital Download and available for immediate access for you to pull down, print out, and get to making fun little art projects. This is the B is for Butterfly page in the 26- animal and insect book that includes print out you can use to color then hole punch, string up, and turn your art into an ornament or all sort of other fun little projects. This is the beginning of one of the butterfl