Tuesday, September 3, 2024
STEAM Sub Plan - Symmetry in Nature: Bugs Edition
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Art Sub Plan - Secret Rooms
Favorite Lesson
I really don't understand it, but kids from elementary to high school, LOVE dreaming about hidden spaces. Whether it is a secret container to hide your money or jewels from robbers to secret rooms in pyramids or mansions, kids seem to love dreaming up secret spaces.
There is an illustration of the hidden space under the Lincoln Memorial in DC at Atlas Obscura. I have been to the Lincoln Memorial many times and had no idea there was anything beneath the memorial!
You can use that illustration and website to inspire a lesson about secret rooms or do an internet search and you can find plenty of examples. (Photo is in the Public Domain. National Park Service)
Kids are also intrigued by the pyramids of Egypt and the maps of the inner corridors. Hidden passageways drawings are a great art connection to the study of Ancient Egypt.
Prepared Art Sub Lessons: Secret Rooms/Hidden Passageways
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Doodle Monsters for Winter
Art Sub Lesson - Doodle Monsters
Simple Monster Drawing Characters for Winter
Monster Doodles Worksheet for Early Finishers
Click here to see or buy the monster doodle lesson at my Art Sub Lessons shop: Art Sub Lesson - Doodle Monsters in Winter
More Blog Posts about Doodling Monsters
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Art Sub Lesson Plan - How to Draw a Monster
How to Draw Doodle Monsters
This is the time of year that kids are most intrigued by monsters. They're everywhere you look in the stores and on TV! At school though, you don't want your students to work on grisly, bloody creatures. So, I like to teach them how to draw doodle monsters.Step-by-Step for Drawing a Monster
Get the Lesson Plan and Visuals
Blog Posts about Doodle Monsters
Friday, September 30, 2022
9 Halloween Art Sub Lessons
9 Halloween Art Lesson Plans Easy Enough for a Sub
This Halloween art lesson is fun for students and easy to teach. The prep for this is minimal. Students will need paper; one black crayon per student; and assorted other crayon colors. I call it a “print and go” lesson as that is all you need to do.
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Art Sub Plans on Patterned Landscapes
Patterned Landscapes as an Art Sub Lesson
Here's a simple lesson that was done in middle school, but could so easily be done in elementary art too.
Mrs. Hare at Becker Middle School gave her students handouts with sample patterns. They filled their drawing paper with lines for foreground, middle ground, and background. Then they filled in the areas with pattern.
The supplies used were simple: paper and Sharpie.
The students had previously studied landscape, so they were acquainted with the basic principles of drawing one.
As a sub lesson, you could provide the teacher with the preprinted pattern sheets; a sheet showing the steps to draw the picture; and a finished sample drawing.
If the students are relatively independent, they could follow the instructions on their own. Most any sub could also demonstrate how to draw the lines across the paper and label them as foreground, middle ground, and background. Then, the sub could show the finished sample and get the students started.
Another Blog Post About Patterned Landscapes
Fully Formed Art Sub Lessons
Monday, December 27, 2021
Art Sub Plan for National Dress Up Your Pet Day
National Dress Up Your Pet Day
Ooooooh, another holiday is coming up! January 14 is "Dress Your Pet Day."
Here's a blog post about it from National Today: Dress Up Your Pet Day
This would be an easy idea to turn into a lesson for substitute teachers. Use a few good photos of dressed up animals and show some books with illustrations of dressed up animals. The school library is full of them!!!!
Here's a little drawing I did of dressed up pets that you may use for your lesson, if you like, but the internet is full of photos of dressed up animals.
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Monday, December 6, 2021
Art Lesson Plan - Beyond the Gingerbread Man
Art Sub Plan - Beyond the Gingerbread Man
No doubt about it. Kids love drawing gingerbread men, gingerbread houses, and all lessons related to candy and treats. After so many years though, that whole house and cookie person idea has run its course with them.
I came up with an idea for the whole gingerbread and candy idea, but with a twist. "Beyond the Gingerbread Man" lets kids use all those fun yummy ideas they have, but let them apply them to an open ended art experience.
This was written as an art sub plan, but can be taught by anyone. It uses the most simple supplies: crayon and paper. You may, of course, use markers, Sharpies, and the like.
Here are some of the art work kids have done with this lesson.
I have provided lots of examples of the gingerbread houses they are familiar with and a script for you to follow.
It is such a fun lesson to do and easy to teach. Whether you teach it yourself or hand it to a sub, you will be happy to have given this lesson to your students.
Click here to find out more about this lesson: Beyond the Gingerbread Man - Art Sub Lesson Plan
Related Blogposts You Might Enjoy
If you are looking for some other Christmas/winter art lesson ideas, here are some other blog posts you might like:
This one is about the ever popular "ugly Christmas sweater." It includes both free and paid options from the web and TPT.
Art Worksheet - Ugly Christmas Sweater