It has been brought to my attention (by several informed readers) that kids these days need to learn their lower case letters first. This make sense, since that’s how you learn to read. SO I am interrupting our regularly scheduled sense of ORDER and am throwing organization to the wind for the sake of the children!

I know, I know, this is tricky. What do we do with the new little cards? How do we back them up to the big letters? If I stick my paper in my printer will “b” print on “a” and “a” print on “b”? Probably. So here’s what I suggest: print them on separate sheets of paper, cut them out and glue them back to back old school style.

I’m sorry. I realize, as a busy parent myself, that this is way too much mess and fuss for somebody who can barely keep the laundry done. But this is just how it’s going to have to be because I am not ready to be making my templates perfect for all printers across the country so that one side can back up perfectly to the other. I do feel bad, I do. But give it a go with the scissors. It’s for the children.

Or you can wait until I have them professionally printed (sometime next year when my credit card recuperates from the dog eat dog summer) and you can buy them all done for you in a nice little box on shiny card stock from my shop!

In the meantime, wave those scissors in air like you just don’t care! We love smart kids!

Download ’em here. Oh no! You missed the free download. Stay tuned though. They will be for sale in my shop some day.

Wow. I don’t think I got this many responses even when Baby Bug was born. Maybe I should ask for input more often. Or maybe I should buddy up with thingamababy and parentdish and goodyblog more often. Thanks guys! My stats are through the roof. Well, relatively speaking anyway. I guess free stuff is always a draw.

After looking through everybody’s wonderful comments and weighing what I would like to illustrate and what I think Baby Bug might be into, I decided on Jellyfish. Jellyfish are so pretty! Have you seen the pictures?

I didn’t realize a jellyfish would be so hard to draw though. Do jellyfish have eyes and if so, how many? I did a little research and came back thoroughly confused. That is why I am an hack-artist and not a scientist. I can’t be bothered with being exactly correct. So I hope you don’t mind my bit of poetic license and only making two eyes. I tried it with eight and they just looked like a bobble necklace.

If you have a problem with the jellyfish’s anatomically incorrectness, you can just call it a reason to bring up the discussion with your child. Who knows, they might grow up to be a marine biologist because of it.

And with that, I give you I and J for your downloading pleasure! Oh no! You missed the free download. Stay tuned though. They will be for sale in my shop some day.