Educator Tips:
Support their creativity by focusing on fun, not perfection.
Offer fun tools like jumbo crayons, washable markers, or even a splash of glitter paint to make art time extra special.
Pair the coloring pages with cut-outs from magazines or newspapers in the target language. It adds more hands-on time with the language while making their artwork even more fun and layered.
LANGUAGE ADVENTURES
COLORING BOOKS
A Funny Day at the Zoo
PAPER PLAY
Zoo-Themed Paper Dolls: A Fun Way to Play and Learn!
These paper dolls are designed to match A Funny Day at the Zoo from the Language Adventure series, offering more screen-free, joyful ways to bring new vocabulary to life.
Ideas for Play and Learning with Them:
1. Build a Zoo Scene: Use a cardboard box to create a zoo background for your paper animals—let kids design, decorate, and bring their zoo to life!
2. Get Tactile: Find fabric or materials that match each animal’s skin or fur, and decorate the paper dolls to turn them into textured, cloth-like creations.
3. Make Language Fun: Help children write the target vocabulary word on the back of each animal. Use the TA-DA! Talking Book to hear the word pronounced by native speakers and check the spelling as they play.
These activities encourage imagination, creativity, and deeper interaction with new vocabulary—making language learning joyful, meaningful, and unforgettable!
Crocodile
Gorilla
Lion
Monkey
Panda
Peacock
Zebra
Hippopotamus
TALKING PICTURE DICTIONARY
PAPER PLAY
3D ROOMS IN A HOUSE
This free paper craft complements the Talking Picture Dictionary, offering an engaging, hands-on way for children to spend more time with vocabulary. The 3D pop-out rooms and interactive elements encourage creativity, while the diverse paper dolls inspire imaginative play and connection to diverse ways of life.
The entire paper set was designed by talented UNAM art students during a paper-crafting course at their university. They came to TA-DA! wanting to share the tactile fun with children worldwide!
This screen-free activity not only builds language skills but also fosters calm, focus, and meaningful connections to words and cultures.
Click, print and watch how language learning becomes a joyful, creative experience!
Tip: Print on sturdy paper for durability and adjust the size to fit your needs.
This paper craft was created with tremendous love by awesome interns, Berenice Navarrete Camacho, Andrea Vargas, Clarisa Vélez, and Diana Merino of Mexico City, Mexico while art students at TA-DA! partner, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
DIVERSE PAPER DOLLS
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