Halloween Art Sub Plans

9 Halloween Art Lesson Plans Easy Enough for a Sub

Here are some fun lessons for October. I’ll add some that can be adapted for those kids who cannot use Halloween imagery for religious or personal reasons.

First, here’s one I just created. Kids love drawing “doodle monsters.” They are easy shapes to draw and there are so many options for adding fun details. 

In this art lesson, I gave examples of doodle monster drawings that are either Halloween focused, with mummies, ghosts, witches, and the likes plus an example of one with none of that. It has footballs, fall trees, hot cocoa, and warm clothes. Kids will appreciate that options are given for either direction.

You can find that lesson in my TpT shop:  Doodle Monsters at Halloween.

At the Mrs Art Teacher Lady blog. you can find a directed drawing. "Halloween Bats and Frankenstein Monsters" is a lesson that both upper and lower elementary kids will have fun drawing. It uses simple materials, so would be great for a substitute teacher.

The TpT shop, "Cool Classroom Stuff" has an activity that would be super easy for your sub to teach. This one is focused on Mexican Sugar Skulls. Your kids will be engaged and happy to work on this one.

Here's another one at "Cool Classroom Stuff." This is a fall themed one and would be good for fourth grade through middle school. 

This radial symmetry lesson has templates and sample templates to help kids out.

Amy, at Makes and Takes, gives step-by-step instructions and many visuals for this lesson. She used black paper and oil pastel, but this could easily be done with crayons on lighter paper.

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At Panicked Teacher, Susie gives you step by step instructions on how to make this patterned pumpkin.  I believe she is a classroom teacher who has to supplement art instruction in her class for most of the school year.

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This lesson, at ArtfulNest, was written for middle school.  You could write it up as a fifth-grade lesson or a sixth-grade one.  You could also bring it down to the upper primary grades with a change of media.  Leave your subs some good visuals.  They could teach this!           

 

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.

It includes full instructions and visuals. You could even post it as an art learning center in the classroom.

“Creating Silly Monsters” is a fun lesson about monsters that you could use in an art center; as a regular art lesson; or for an art sub. It is super easy to teach and kids will love it. Check it out at TPT Shop: Centers and Early Finishers  It would be timely around Halloween but could be taught any time.

This lesson was posted on a blog called, “Clown and Poodle.” It appears that it no longer exists. However, I had written a blog post inspired by the original, and that still exists. You can see that complete lesson in my blog post here: Purple People Eater

Art Sub Plan - Zen Doodles with Initials

Sub Lesson with Patterns and Initials

Mrs. Danno at Grande Park Elementary in Chicago posted this fourth and fifth grade lesson. She intended it as a two part lesson that she would teach. The first lesson was when she introduced the idea of zen doodles and they practiced creating designs. In the second lesson, they created the design with a letter and patterns. I think a sub could teach a version of this in one class by just doing what was intended for lesson 2, but certainly you can do the lesson as she suggested. 

This blog post includes multiple visuals and instructions.   You may find this lesson at the her blog:  4th and 5th Grade Zentangle Letters. 

Ready to Teach

If you are looking for similar lessons, check out this blog post: Five Name Design Lessons

You can also buy one that is ready to hand to a sub at my TpT Shop.

Art Sub Lesson: Name Design

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.

Art Sub Lesson - Beyond the Gingerbread Man

"Great engaging sub lesson. I teach choice art but only 

leave choice prompts for subs and this was perfect. No unhappy campers!"

— Kristen J.

Rated 5 out of 5

"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!"

— Jordan B.

Rated 5 out of 5

Art Sub Lesson - 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!"

— Kim H.

Rated 5 out of 5

"My students enjoyed this classroom activity to fill a little time at the end 

of the semester before Christmas break. Very satisfied!"

— Stacey L.

Rated 5 out of 5

Draw 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

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

"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!!"

— Kim 

Rated 5 out of 5

Art Sub Plan - Doodle Monsters in Winter

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Art Worksheet - Create an Elf in Disguise

"Awesome! Wonderful resource for class project. Love it!"

-Shelby

"This one was flying off my counter during December!"

-Julie

Art Worksheet - Winter Mittens

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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