Doodle Monsters in Winter - Art Sub Plans

Doodle Monsters in Winter, Christmas, or December

This time of year, kids will beg to do holiday art lessons. That's a tough one, since there are multiple holidays celebrated in December, and there are those who are not allowed to celebrate any of them.  I contemplated how to do a fun holiday-ISH lesson while leaving it open ended enough to not be related to a holiday at all. 

And since I am all about creating lessons that subs can teach, it would need to be a lesson easy enough to be taught by anyone.

I found lots of videos about doodling by kids and adults alike. The kids' art was every bit as fun to look at as the grown ups' art. 

Doodle monsters were what I settled on. 

I had so much fun drawing and coloring them, I contemplated continuing doing them long after my art sub lesson was finished.

In the lesson, after kids learn how to draw the shapes of the doodle monsters, they have options to choose from for all the details: eyes and mouths. Then there are sheets of options for winter and holiday symbols. 

There is art history info about doodling, (daVinci and the Queen of Prussia from the 1700's); info about overlapping; and a bit about shading.

As always, I write my lessons to be easy enough to be taught by anyone. 

Go check out this lesson at my TPT store here:  Art Sub Lessons

Art Sub Lesson - Winter Drawing with VanGogh Sky

 Winter Art Lesson

This lesson plan was at the site, Art to Remember. It is a basic but complete lesson plan. There were a variety of landscapes in there visuals. The winter scene was just one of them.

If I was teaching the lesson, I might provide visuals of winter scenery; photos of snow covered structures, trees, etc. I’d probably also add a visual reminding students about horizon lines and such. 

If you live some place where snow covered scenery is not the norm, you can use some of their other visuals of landscapes and do a variation on the theme.  

There are written instructions for this lesson, which is a plus. 

Check it out and see if this would work for you and your students.

If you are looking for more ideas for winter art sub lessons, check out this post:

Winter Art Sub Lessons

Art Sub Plan - Thanksgiving Lesson

Create a Turkey in Disguise

Here is a classic art lesson for November. I put it together as a complete art sub lesson this week.  Its for those of you who need a sub plan ASAP or those who just need an easy and fun lesson. 

Instead of you having to recreate the wheel by adding your own visuals and sub instructions, here it is already done for you. Directions; sample finished art work; visuals by professional illustrators from the past; and visuals with details for inspiration, all are provided for you. All you have to do is print it and hand it to your sub or school office.  The only supplies you need are pencil, paper, and crayons.

You can take a look at it here:  TPT Shop: Art Sub Lessons - Create a Turkey in Disguise.