Showing posts with label early finishers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early finishers. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Keeping Students Engaged as Winter Break Approaches

 Keeping Students Engaged as Winter Break Approaches: The Perfect Art Activity Collection

As winter break approaches, teachers everywhere face the challenge of keeping students focused and engaged. The excitement of the holidays can make it tough to hold their attention with regular lessons. This is where our Winter and Christmas Art Worksheets collection comes to the rescue!



Why This Collection is a Game-Changer

Our collection is designed with teachers in mind, offering a variety of engaging art activities that are perfect for the festive season. Here’s how it can help:

  1. Engaging and Fun: Each worksheet is packed with creative prompts and sample details that inspire students to create their own unique designs. The festive winter and Christmas themes add a touch of holiday magic that captivates their imagination and keeps them engaged.

  2. Versatile Use: These worksheets are perfect for a wide range of uses. Whether you need activities for early finishers, a ready-to-go sub plan, or engaging tasks for your learning centers, this collection has you covered. It’s also great for classroom teachers who want to add a little extra fun to their lessons as the holiday season approaches.

  3. Easy Implementation: The worksheets include lightly drawn designs that serve as templates for students to build upon. This makes it easy for students of all skill levels to participate and create beautiful, symmetrical artworks without feeling overwhelmed.

    4.  Skill Development: While having fun, students are also learning important concepts like radial symmetry and enhancing their design skills. This makes the activities both enjoyable and educational—a perfect blend for any classroom.

    5.  Stress-Free Prep: As a teacher, your time is precious. These no-prep worksheets mean you can spend less time planning and more time enjoying the holiday season. Simply print and go!

    Don’t just take our word for it! Here’s what teachers who have used this resource have to say:

    "This was great for any class and fun to leave for a sub!"

    "I put this in my early finishers bin and the kids were excited to complete the activity!"

    "My younger grades love this and the other products like it. They are so excited when I pull them out. "

    Check out this bundle at the TPT shop: Art Sub Lessons


Wednesday, December 7, 2022

12 Winter Art Sub Plans and Early Finishers

 

12 Winter Art Sub Lessons and Worksheets

This time of year so many people need art activities for early finishers, art sub plans, and just plain art lessons, that are not specifically Christmas themed. Here are seasonal art lessons that will excite your kids in December or the winter.

First off are a couple of free directed drawings I posted on this blog. The first one shows how to draw, step by step, a gingerbread man. The second one shows how to draw a Christmas tree.



Art Sub Lesson - Beyond the Gingerbread Man

Winter child drawing of a gingerbread airplane

"Great engaging sub lesson. I teach choice art but only 
leave choice prompts for subs and this was perfect. No unhappy campers!"
"I have bought several of these sub lessons and have loved 
every single one. This has made this year of frequently needing 
subs so much less stressful. Subs love them too. Thank you!"



Art Sub Lesson - Ugly Christmas Sweater

Middle school drawing of an ugly Christmas sweater
"This was a super fun way to start an art project where we made "ugly tshirts". 
The students and I really enjoyed it!"
"My students enjoyed this classroom activity to fill a little time at the end 
of the semester before Christmas break. Very satisfied!"


Draw a Gingerbread House

Elementary student drawing of a gingerbread house

"Such a fun lesson! I use this each year as a sub lesson. Def keeps kids engaged!"
-Michelle

"Good for a substitute lesson or quick activity."
-TpT Seller

Radial Symmetry Drawing for Winter

Middle school art drawing of symmetrical mandalas for winter

Rated 5 out of 5Extremely satisfied

"Great resource to have. Students enjoyed it."
-Amanda

"Great resource right before the holidays!"
-Kelsey


Art Sub Lesson - Robots in Winter

Elementary art sub plan for robots in winter
"My fourth graders are loving this! The sample robot shapes and details sheets 
are a great reference for helping them to draw."
-Alison 

"This lesson was great for a sub lesson and the students really enjoyed it. 
The examples and ideas pages really helped them be successful. Definitely a keeper!!"

Art Sub Plan - Doodle Monsters in Winter

Student drawing of doodle monsters in winter

Not Yet Rated


Art Worksheet - Create an Elf in Disguise

Student art worksheet with an elf


Art Worksheet - Winter Mittens

Not Yet Rated


Art Worksheet - Create a Gingerbread House


"This was great for early finishers in my Art class during the holidays."
-Laurie

"My younger grades love this and the other products like it. They are 
so excited when I pull them out."
-Julie

Art Worksheet - Create a Reindeer in Disguise


"Perfect for right before winter break."

-Laurie


"My younger students love this one! I've seem some really cute finished products."

-Julie

Art Worksheet - Create a Christmas Stocking


"Super fun! I used these as a pattern to make hanging stockings."

-Karen

Art Worksheet - Create a Nutcracker



"Engaging for kids. Easy activity. Loves that the base model was a 

simple enough template that kids could turn it into any nutcracker they wanted."

-Kristen


"Good activity for early finishers! Using this in my music class during my 

Nutcracker unit. Thank you!"

-Cassandra



Monday, November 28, 2022

Art Worksheets for Winter

Winter Worksheets

During the month of December, there are always reasons you can't get through a complete class period. Assemblies. Extra kids added to your class for a day. Sub lessons. You are left scrambling to find something easy enough for kids to do at the spur of the moment but interesting enough to keep them engaged.

I created art worksheets to help you out with those circumstances. KIDS.....LOVE.....THESE....THINGS. And for .99, you will love them too!

Here are some of them made just for winter.

Art activity worksheet for creating an elf




Art activity worksheet for creating a funny reindeer




Art activity worksheet with a gingerbread house


Art class worksheets for drawing a panda

Art activity worksheet for drawing a yeti