Art Sub Plan - Cityscape for Kindergarten

Here's a sweet and easy kindergarten lesson that a sub could easily do. The kindergarten teacher has given a good tutorial for the lesson at her blog, Fairy Dust Teaching.  It's based on the book That Pesky Rat.
Cityscape Lesson 

Here are other blog posts with kindergarten cities using simple cut shapes.

Splash Splash Splatter Art

Flowers Are Fun Art Sub Plan

Flowers Are Fun - Video - Middle School and Upper Elementary 

Here's a great video for drawing a flower mandala.  Flowers Are Fun Ink Drawing Mandala

Tee Shirt Lesson - Kindergarten and First Grade

When my coworker retired, she left behind some very nice sub kits.  In the packet for each lesson was not only the plan and sample, but selected samples of materials needed.

Here's what the packet looks like for this kindergarten and first-grade lesson.

 Here are the plans written in multiple ways.

This is the template for the tee shirt.  She had a set of templates in the packet.

Here she shows the sub how to fold the paper for the shirt.

The Dot - Relief Teaching Ideas

Art Lesson for Relief Teaching

This lesson idea is from "Ms. Brown's Art Class."  I think it could be adapted for kindergarten art sub plans up to fifth-grade ones.

Ms. Brown uses block tempera in her classroom.  If I had a sub, I might use those same plans or either draw with Sharpie and then fill in with marker or crayon.  She has nice instructions on her page.  She also uses the book, "The Dot."  (Thanks for all the lesson plans on your blog, Ms. Brown!)

 

Easy Art Lesson - Pattern Snake

Easy Art Lesson - Pattern Snake - Sub Plan

I’m not sure why it is, but kids love drawing snakes. Here’s a lesson where they draw one and then add a variety of patterns and doodles.  

You could do this with kindergarten but with older kids as well. 

This is from the blog "Got Art / Teaching Art to Young Artists."  Mrs. Matott said she left this with first and second grades as a sub lesson before and it was successful. 

Here’s a similar take on that. This is another blog post about spirals and another pattern snake.

“Swirl by Swirl”

Lessons Ready to Use

Here are some sub lessons all ready to print out and use.  I'd print them out ASAP if I were you.  You never know how long these things will be on the net!

These are from the art office in Anchorage, AK. 

The lessons to download include:

• Kindergarten

• Imaginary Person, Animal or Creature
  
• Rainbow Fish
  

• Grade One
• Castles
• With Pattern: Quilts

• Grade Two
  
  • Line Design With Narne
    
  • Crazy Cats
    
• Grade Three
  
  • Landscape Drawing
    
  • Figures In Action
    
• Grade Four
  
  • Portraits With Pattern Hair or Beard
    
  • School Supplies
    
• Grade Five
  
  • Cornrnunity On A Distant Planet
    
  • Visual Puns
    
• Grade Six
  
• Fantasy Animals
  
• A Super Sandwich
  

Easy Art Lesson - Bold Lines

Easy Art Lesson for Subs

Katie Morris has a nice sub lesson with good instructions and visuals over on her blog, "Adventures of an Art Teacher."  

She gives credit where she first saw the idea.  Katie says:  "If you are on Artsonia, the lesson was posted by Linda Welling from Cedar Creek Elementary School."

Handouts for Subs

Worksheets for Middle School Art 

Here's a post from Guilford County School's Art Educator's Blog.  Caitlin Fisher shared some handouts that she leaves for subs.  I've shown one here, but there are more on that site.

If you're interested in a free worksheet, here's a free one at my TPT shop. This link takes you to a writeup about it on this blog:  Circle Worksheets. That post also leads you to some other free circle worksheets you might like.

Here's another one I wrote about on my blog:  Imagination Workout. There are 11 simple lines drawn on a grid. The challenge is to create something based on those lines. Check out that blog post to see the example and find the link to the original blog post. Only simple materials are required. The blogger also posts a free worksheet a week!

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.