Art Sub Plan - Gingerbread Buildings

Gingerbread Buildings Lesson for Subs

This art sub lesson is one I used for my first, second, and third graders.

When I have a sub, my goal is for the kids to be engaged and the sub to have an easy go of it.  Since non-art people are the norm for my subs, I always promise them that I will leave a lesson that anyone can teach.  So, the lessons from my county's curriculum are saved for me to teach.

I figured that on the last day of school before winter break, the kids would be overly excited and I needed to give them something that would be of interest to them.

I printed out many gorgeous gingerbread houses from the internet and hung them in the room.  I also painted a sheet with many types of candies that you might find on a gingerbread house.

I left the sub 12" x 18" paper.....black pens....and crayons.  If I do this lesson again, I would give the kids a smaller paper; perhaps 10" x 10".  The larger paper was too big to color in completely in one 55 minute class.

 Here is what I wrote for her:

Show the photos of the gingerbread houses.  I have taped a chart of painted candies and gingerbread houses on the wall so please point that out to them to use.
As you show the pictures, ask the students to tell you what they see.  What is a gingerbread house?  Why do people make them?  What are they made from?

Point out that not all of the houses are the same shapes.  They could be gingerbread castles….gingerbread mansions….gingerbread forts…..gingerbread theaters…….gingerbread stores………gingerbread schools…… Some even have decorated areas around them.  How will you make a fence?  A car in the driveway?  Trees?  People?  Animals?

Tell the students that they will be drawing a gingerbread building today.  What type of building they choose to do is up to them.  They will be using black pens to draw the entire picture.   After about ten minutes of drawing, you can pass out the blue boxes of crayons.  They may color in the picture.  Note:  they only get one sheet of paper.  They know this and probably won’t ask for another.

Silly Monsters Idea for an Art SubLesson

Silly Monsters for an Art Sub Lesson

You could DEFINITELY come up with a lesson plan for this one!   "Silly Monsters" from the blog "Her Dabbles." She used it with second grade. I know lots of elementary grades, including kindergarten, have units of fun studies related to monsters.

Here’s another fun thing I found on the web. A “monster name generator.” Need an inspiration for the monster or just need help with naming one? Here’s a place to visit.  

Monster Name Generator. You kind of have to visit it just to play around with it for fun.

Through A Window Art Lesson

***The blog on which this original post was linked, no longer seems to exist. I will leave this post as it may inspire you to create your own lesson for this drawing.

Here's one called "Through a Window."  The blog has a downloadable Word file with the lesson plan and photos.

It's at the Art4cast wiki.  

Alphabet Soup Lesson as Art Sub Plan

Here's the development of a sub lesson that Phyl, at "There's a Dragon in My Art Room" posted.  She got the original idea from a  post on sub lessons by Erica at "Art Project Girl."   Here's a photo of Phyl's lesson: 

Here's the link to Phyl's lesson:  There's a Dragon in My Art Room.

And here's a screen shot of Erica's lesson:

Here's a link to Erica's blog:  Art Project Girl

Directed Drawing of Owls as Art Sub Plan

This is from the blog Art Lessons for Kids. The blogger taught this as a sub during her time off from full time teaching.

Art Sub Lesson Video: Tar Beach

I love showing kids art videos that are related to the lesson. Here's one of my own.  It's a video I created for the sub to show the class.  The kids follow along with the video.  Click here for the video: Tar Beach

I did this lesson with my students plenty of times and they loved it! I love it when kids get to use their imaginations to create something that is personal to them.

You might want an art sub lesson for Tar Beach already written up. You can pick one up here on my TPT site: Art Sub Lesson: I'm Flying.

Cubes Art Lesson as Art Sub Plan

Click here:  School Arts Room..... Art Sub Lesson

 

Click here: Update to this lesson

Romero Britto Art Sub Lesson

Romero Britto Art Lesson

This lesson is simple but has striking results. The combination of cubism and pop art make appealing inspiration pieces for kids art lessons when combined with vibrant colors and bold pattern. An art sub could be very successful in leading this lesson.

 

This lesson, featuring the art of Romero Britto, uses simple materials; paper and markers. Markers give the art work that bright color that is a hallmark of Britto’s work. Students create a simple design and add pattern to the shapes. They color it in. 

 

Click here for Romero Britto Lesson from Teach Kids Art

If you would like to see a fully formed, lesson you can just email to your school office when you are out, check out this blog post:  Romero Britto Figure Lesson for K and 1

Why This?

Hi.  This space is where I would like to "park" ideas for sub lessons.  It is mostly for my own use, but I'll put it here in case it might help someone else.