Art Sub Lesson Plan | Wacky Hats
This is an elementary lesson that I have totally revamped, so if you bought it from my TeachersPayTeachers shop in the past, you may download the new one for free!
This lesson was written with an art sub in mind, but it would be great fun for anyone to teach on "Crazy Hat Day" at your school.
Now that I am a retired art teacher, I sub for my art teacher friends. This is a lesson that I have been teaching the last few weeks. The kids love it. They are encouraged to use their imaginations and come up with crazy ideas for a wacky hat.
The lesson has artwork from art history; artwork from the present; student samples; and complete directions. Anyone can follow along and teach this lesson. All they have to do is read along from slide to slide.
You may find this lesson here: Art Sub Lessons @ TeachersPayTeachers.
Art Sub Lesson Plan - Gingerbread Man
When I was a full time art teacher and taught this lesson, my students loved it! Gingerbread, candy and sweet things are attractive to kids. Who knew, right? (wink) So now that I am retired and substitute teach in art, I like to use my lessons that were the kids' favorites.
This one is based off of the idea of the gingerbread man and gingerbread houses. Kids would be happy drawing simply either one of those. But in art class, we want to do more than that. So in this lesson the kids look at pictures of standard kinds of gingerbread creations and then more unique and creative ones. They share their new ideas and then draw them.
As I have taught this lesson the kids have been highly engaged. As a sub in a class of students who don't know me, engagement is important. As an intro to the lesson, I started with a Speakaboos video on YouTube that I downloaded. It was one with John Krasinski, from The Office, as a narrator. You certainly could also supplement with one of many fun books about the gingerbread man. After that I showed the PowerPoint lesson.
I make my lesssons so that they may be projected as a PowerPoint or printed out and shown to a class close up. Each slide has a script for the sub to read and questions to ask. It it easily taught by any sub, artist or not.
It can be taught any time of year, but certainly has a connection with early winter holidays and decor.
So, this lesson is available at my TeachersPayTeachers shop here: Beyond the Gingerbread Man. Once you download it, your sub planning is done.
