Art Sub Lessons

The Circle Game asks students to come up with as many different things as they can from one circle. I thought this activity was really fun! However, my elementary students were not that interested. Most of my kids' papers were dull circles with a scribble on them. I think older kids might "get it" better. I have included the handout from Ande Cook's Art Starters as well as my lesson plan with all the directions for a sub.

Simple drawing game- draw some geometry trees - from Tangle Art and Drawing…

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Roll A Haring Art Game. This game is played individually with a dice. After rolling the dice 6 times you will have completed a drawing project in the style of a Keith Haring.

This being February and the month of Valentine's Day, I decided we'd draw a bunch of sweet treats and fun food this month. So our treat had to be sweet and fun too, right? Cake Balls are most certainly sweet and fun... (mine still never look as good as Bakerella's but they sure are tasty!) We began in our sketchbooks just drawing some basic, fun, cute food. I drew on the white board and the girls drew with me in their sketchbooks. Some of these drawings came from the book Craft-a-Doodle from…

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Here is another lesson I made inspired by a worksheet in Ande Cook's book Art Starters. Here is the lesson and here is the page to help your students out.

Get your students excited about learning art history and Pop Art by creating a Wayne Thiebaud still-life with oil pastels. Fill up your art sub plan folder with engaging, low-prep art projects that are easy to implement for substitute teachers.Teach your students about Pop Art, geometric vs. free-fo...

Get your art sub plans organized so that any substitute teacher could walk in with little notice and teach a successful elementary art lesson. You'll get everything you need to set up an Art Sub Binder with helpful information for your sub and 10 easy lesson plans that students will enjoy and you'll...

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Here is a sub lesson adapted from a handout in Ande Cook's Art Starters book called "A Fun Game." Basically, the artist is being asked to draw their interpretations of several different things. It's fun! It's a Fun Game! I wrote out all the directions and everything a sub would need to know to teach this lesson. I used this for grades 2nd grade and up.

You can direct students how to draw an abstract face in with this easy step by step tutorial. The result will always fill the entire paper, and will have in incredibly creative look as well.

As some of y'all might know because I've been talking about it nonstop (I often wonder just how I have acquired so many nice friends that allow me to ramble on and on without complaint. My guess is that they've formed some sort of support group), I've been out of school for several days due to el jury duty-o. You can see what I wore here cuz you know you wanna. Anywho, knowing that I was gonna be out for so long, I knew I'd have to leave some legit sub plans. So I created a couple of videos…

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