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.
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. ***
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. ***
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
