Super Easy Sub Plans for the Elementary Art Room

Simple Art Sub Plans

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Art teachers know the challenge of providing substitute teachers with plans that are easy enough for anyone to empathize, regardless of whatever fine art background. Following are simple plans that volition provide your students with an education beyond babysitting services.

Art Portfolios from Susan on Long Island

Susan waits till NAEA Convention for her students to brand their portfolios. Y'all could pre-punch holes for the pipe cleaner handles - have students insert the Pipe Cleaners - fold - so reinforce Pipe Cleaners with colored tape (many fine art resource catalogs carry colored masking tape and colored "moisture and stick" art tape). From Susan: All my students brand portfolios with the sub. It'south an easy same lesson for all with limited supplies: 24x36 (61 x 91 cm) paper folded, Washable Markers, pipe cleaners for handles, staple sides. Nosotros salve them until the terminate of the yr. They put all their year'due south art work in it and take it domicile in June.

Monsters all Around from Tammi

An easy i I did in a pinch final week for kindergarten was to have them trace a circle (I take a zillion butter tub lids and they love to trace things to practice this skill) and and so trace their manus as many times as it will fit around the circle- like spokes coming out from it. Then they used crayons and markers to turn it into a monster. I told the sub that when they started saying, "I'm done!" she can tell them to draw the monster's friends, favorite toys, and nutrient it eats in the background. When I returned, I found the monsters unfinished because she had a big discussion about facial expressions and how you can make your monster scary, happy, etc. I had to put off my next lesson because they begged me to allow them terminate their monsters! They did a slap-up job putting patterns and designs on them.

Beasties Galore from Judy Decker

Imaginary beasties would work with all grade levels. See Linda Forest'due south Mixed Breed Lesson for examples (these are finished major project by fifth grade. Select the drop-down menu on the lower right side of that page.). Of form, you would take different expectations for the younger students. My 2d graders had no trouble doing Eric Carle way beasties one twelvemonth - so I know they can handle it. Might want to simplify to bones shapes for outset graders - just I think they could handle it too (my second graders really worked on their Eric Carl beasties a twenty-four hour period I was out - the sub handled it beautifully - and even fabricated a great sample for me to continue. She was a gem!).

"Exquisite Beasties" - I take had students make beasties on a template where the body had to line up between two notches and so we could cut them apart and brand new animals. The head section of ane - with the torso of another - and the tail section of another. We fabricated these one twelvemonth to put in a book. Information technology was my welcome fifth graders to the middle school lesson for that day (I had double the amount of students in my room - all of my sixth graders and all of their fifth form shadows. I needed something that would piece of work for all). See Exquisite Horse from Silver Buckle Press. (Note: "Exquisite Corpse" was a surreal parlor game).

Bad Hair Twenty-four hours by Michal Austin and Sky McClain

See too the Bad Hair lessons on the eye school sub plans page.

I tried Bad Hair Day meets the Proper name Design Art piece of work folder projection (by Bunki Kramer) as a philharmonic. My 6th graders did a head, then used their names to do the beginning of Bad Hair. They either did fatty letters or cursive writing around the hairline (similar a rainbow) or out from the hairline like rays of the sun. Inside of the letter of the alphabet forms they did Michal's bad pilus day patterns. They LOVED seeing both projects by other kids on Michal's and Bunki's websites, and were having a cracking time trying it every bit a philharmonic projection using sharpie markers in four different widths. One daughter remarked that she idea the projection by Ali (from Princeton Community Middle School) was more than a Good pilus 24-hour interval *grin*. Then I got out the gel Metallic Markers for finishing flourishes. They had just finished a value report on their posterized digital portraits and were having fun being a bit more creative. Have some more fun! Include significant of names in the words (Behind the Name site by Mike Campbell. Mike does give art teachers permission to use his site with students)

Besides see Bunki Kramer's Name Symmetry - Students as young as fourth grade can handle this lesson.

Earth layers - Patterns in nature by Judy Decker

Depict a cross section of the globe - making wavy lines to divide the dissimilar layers (maybe have some scientific illustrations handy). Dividing up into rows, putting a different pattern/texture in each row. This could be done with markers (fine point black mark for the lines and patterns. Could be colored with Colored Pencils or Crayons, likewise. Layers could show bones and roots, also.

What'south in a Crowd from Linda Wood

Have the kids draw a crowd of people in an unusual situation, like having a political party in an elevator, for instance. Tell them y'all want them to draw anybody'southward confront different, different ages of people, dissimilar clothes, different body positions, and you want their drawing to tell a visual story. Cartoon way is fine. Emphasize differences and overlapping, lots of details... keeps them decorated, and they have fun. Allow them work on them in pairs for fifty-fifty more enthusiasm.

A Twenty-four hours at Kings Island (or any Amusement Park) by Ann Heineman

Since amusement parks are starting up for the flavour, a oversupply of people on those scary and spinning rides would exist fun to visualize and draw, too.

Clowns Express Emotion from Amy

Grade 1: describe clown faces with Oil Pastels... white face and add make upward. She practise these on blackness paper and then "frame them past gluing them to a bigger piece of bright paper and and then have the kids draw a edge on that.

Alternating Color Design from Amy

Grade 2 and 3: depict circles on a paper, draw vertical lines on the paper (through the circles) employ two different Colored Markers... color the background (for example) pink and the circle (or the half circle) green in ane stripe, colour the background light-green and the circle pinkish in the side by side stripe. This is easy and make clean and can exist finished in about 40 minutes.

Susan Holland adds: The first time I saw this lesson with the circles and lines, I thought it sounded perfect and put information technology in my sub folder, only I take since found that it is not all that easy. It ends up taking my 4th graders two to iii 45 infinitesimal classes. (and then this one might exist good when you lot are going to exist out for more than one mean solar day)

Popsicle Stick Sculpture from Susan Holland

A sub lesson I like to leave for little guys K and i (later on students are well versed in the process for it) is Plastilina Modeling Clay with virtually x Popsicle sticks for each students. The students try to build continuing structures. Another practiced source for sub lessons is www.kinderart.com. The lessons there are very thoroughly explained and many are one period lessons. Meet http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/ and http://www.kinderart.com/arthistory/abstractflowers.shtml

Information technology'southward a Party from a Mouse'south Eye View from Amy

Grade four: Draw a party from a mouse's point of view... Draw all of the people feet but, with the legs and the residuum of the torso being so tall they come off the paper before they become anything more than than legs. She uses this to teach vertical perspective (i.due east. if the lesser of an object is higher than the lesser of something else, it is further away). Extension: Have them draw their own shoes - A party that they would have. Substitution shoes and add their friend's shows to the fun.

Oaxacan inspired Alebrijes (Fantasy Animals) From: Brenda Robson

Right at present my fifth graders are creating marble runs - kinetic sculptures... they beg for information technology all twelvemonth, and I relieve it for our testing wheel - strips of poster board, a demo on construction techniques (scoring, tape etc...) and they are off. (Note from Judy: A science teacher in my edifice had the students make marble runs with Popsicle sticks - needed several hot Glue Gun for this)

The younger students use paper strips to create a 3-D amusement park - same construction techniques - and then describe the model with people and environs -

"While Yous Were Out" from: Ellen Sears

I leave books to go with lessons - "While You Were Out" and pictures of Painted Ladies - then they describe their ain house with the new color scheme - or any building... you could also have magazine pictures of structures that they can color over. More than ideas: Mixed-Up Chameleon - Matthew's Dream.

Symmetrical Pattern from Betsy Larson

Symmetrical designs using markers and white napkins (gives iv mode design). Keep napkin folded and employ markers to create pattern - unfold when washed. Kids love information technology!. Idea came from Getty TeacherArtExchange listing (now TeacherArtExchange)

Amy adds: This likewise works great with coffee filters.

Texture Rubbing Creatures From Sandy Bacon

I recently used a lesson found hither on the listing. See Linda Wood's lesson on Eric Carl animals. The children are given a topic or theme. I used a mythological/medieval creature. They used all kinds of different papers and texture rubbing plates (see Sax itemize pg. 406) to create an Eric Carle fashion animal. First read Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons & Other Creatures that Never Were book. I had a sample done and the lesson went very well co-ordinate to the sub. The kids really had a good fourth dimension creating.

Hog Wild Metallic Magnetic Sculptures from Linda Woods

Linda has many different learning centers to employ as redundancy plans. One is Grunter Wild Metal Sculptures - the kids really go to town creating unusual artistic pieces (recall Picasso and other cubist sculptors). These are all temporary as after a few days, they are disassembled and put dorsum into the boxes for others to use. Linda has purchased several sets and mixed them all into ane center. See Grunter Wild page for more information.

Plasticine Clay by Judy Decker

One idea that worked for me was to have Plastilina Modeling Clay (1 color per child only) in small butter dishes - one per child (you could use Baggies, instead I suppose). I had some elementary tools bachelor in cans - one for each table (just Popsicle sticks and some simple wooden tools - nothing dangerous). I had torn out enough fabric backed wall paper samples for each pupil to utilise as a placemat. This was specially helpful if I was going to be out during a ceramics lesson and didn't feel the substitute would be able to handle the students being at all dissimilar stages of completion in a project. This was an idea I got from Linda Lehman of Bath Uncomplicated.

Create a Coloring Canvass - by Sky McClain

Another fun substitute plan is to have them draw a picture show on Xerox paper using pencil only. It has to be just an outline because a few of the all-time ones will be chosen by me (on my return) to be Xeroxed and then they will exist used as coloring sheets for all my other classes to colour. I impress their name clearly on the bottom so everyone can encounter who did information technology. I keep these coloring sheets in a box lid in the fine art room next to the cans of markers. They tin can be colored if the children finish their art project early. Sometimes I propose a theme similar dinosaurs or favorite drawing characters or summertime fun. They must fill up the page with lots of interesting things to be colored or else it won't exist called.

Shapes and Things past Ellen Sears

I have left for grades 2-7. I left the book 'Shapes and Things' past Tana Hoban - a book of photo grams along with a bucket of kitchen utensils.

Two assignments I have left are:

1. Depict ane object 5 times - 1 complete, and iv coming onto or going off of the folio

2. Divide the newspaper into 6 unequal sections. Depict the silhouette in ane department to fill up... Abstract the object in each of the remaining sections past - multiplying, dividing, adding, subtracting, stretching...

They can use markers to add pattern in negative or positive, warm and cool, complementary...

Design a T-Shirt by Jean Womack

Jean has been substituting in the San Francisco expanse. One very professional art teacher I worked with gave the kids an outline of a T-shirt and asked them to design their ain T-shirt. Then she had them add together the pants and arms, legs, and caput. That would exist good for ane or 2 days.

Castles Dragons and More by Jean Womack

Another smashing teacher was gone for a week. She left a very elaborate lesson program where they were supposed to describe a castle, from a handout. Then add dragons, copse, etc, all from the handout. And draw lots of item. She said they love castles. She drew one on the board that was awesome. Jean showed Cinderella or Snow White or one of those Disney movies that have castles in it (yous might want to check with the school policy on showing Disney videos - possibly bear witness a segment of the video). She told them that Disney people made a lot of money drawing castles. Jean too got quondam calendars with castles and put them up on the wall.

Rainbow Fish - thought by Michal Austin

This could piece of work for grades Grand through 2. Read Rainbow Fish. Students draw large fish to fill 9 10 12 (23 x 30.5 cm) white Drawing Paper - Make interesting patterns (could testify Paul Klee print of The Golden Fish - and one of Fisherman), outline heavily with black Crayons. Color in sections heavily with crayon. Use Prang Watercolor Pan Sets wash in negative space (could wait and practise watercolor when teacher returns). Add a Glitter Glue accent to some scales.

Elmer Again - idea by Michal Austin

This could work for grades 1 to two- http://www.geocities.com/theartkids. (Archive) I Accept sub read story. "Elmer Again" by David McKee - You could have a one' gridded paper run off for the checkerboard. Students begin coloring the checker board the solar day y'all are off - stop when you return.

Blueprint Coin - from Sara Green (for elementary and heart school)

Copy dollar bills and distribute them to the tables. You could copy coin from other countries if available. Discuss the pattern- center, border etc. Tell the students they are designing the new coin for their new country. They name the country, they design the symbols and designs. You tin can cut 41/two x 12 inch (11.4 x 30.5 cm) pieces of paper for the sub ahead of time.

In a pinch? Try ART a Facts™ Magazine Source for Fine art Lesson Plans and Teacher Resources for Art Education Simple and Secondary Level. V bug each twelvemonth - Comes in prepare of 30 copies. Homeschool issue also bachelor (consists of one copy of each of the five problems). From Judy: I would recommend you lot order a copy for elementary and secondary for yourself (see Homeschool price - it is worth it!). Lessons are different for each level... Secondary can exist adapted for lower grades, likewise. There is not much departure in reading level. Font is smaller on Secondary copy then there is more in depth information - also good for you to accept. Internet resources are given equally well as books. Yous tin hands write upwardly a hands on exercise for student to do after they are finished reading and discussing the magazine. Reading level is probably grade iv and up. Substitute could read to lower grades.

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