One-Day Art Lesson -

One Day Art Sub Lesson

Jessica Young used this plan initially as an art sub lesson for fourth grade. When she needed a quick art lesson for herself, she pulled this one out and used it for other grades as well.
You can check out Jessica's blog here: Miss Young's Art Room.


She says that her students stayed engaged for the whole class time with this. She also gave ideas for those few early finishers and those who took it a little too slow to finish in art.




The materials she used were markers and paper. With subs, I am careful about leaving markers. If I know the sub and trust them to emphasize using the markers with care, I would leave markers. Otherwise, crayons would work just fine.


Miss Young demonstrated how to draw a "criss cross" star with her kids and then showed them how to repeat the lines in and around that star. I think you could also provide students with templates of other shapes for this. Basic shapes? Animal shapes?


If you would like to use masterpieces from art history to introduce the lesson, here are is an idea that might work well.




in public domain
This is Kandinsky's Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles from 1913.


Here's another lesson plan that you could use to create a lead in for this lesson: "Kandinsky Squares with Concentric Circles,"at the blog, Art Prep has a good, meaty description of Kandinsky and his work.


They talk about Kandinsky choosing to switch to from using subjects in his paintings to focusing on line and color. This is great information for your lesson.




If you would like to use an art sub plan that is fully formed and ready to hand to a sub, check out this one in my TPT shop: Art Sub Lessons. It is no prep and fully scripted. It can be taught by anyone.

This elementary and middle school art sub lesson includes slides about the artist and two projects for the students to draw. It is great for teaching elementary students about abstract art and the artist, Bruce Gray.

Written for a sub, it may also be taught by classroom teachers, art teachers, and homeschool teachers.

Supplies needed for the art lesson are pencils, paper, markers or crayons, rulers and circles of various sizes.

Emergency Art Sub Lessons

I wrote this original post in 2012 and it led to lessons on a school system's blog that they had provided for their own teachers. Unfortunately, they have since removed that post all these years later.  Since you have taken the time to click over here looking for free art sub lessons, here are some you can use from this blog.

What Can You Make Out of a Circle - a free worksheet you can download from my TPT shop

Circle Drawing Worksheets - a free worksheet you can download from my TPT shop

Free Art Sub Lesson - Lines, Lines, and More Lines - a  free, fully formed primary art lesson written for subs, at my TPT shop

Directed Drawing - How to Draw a Penguin - a blog post that will lead you to fully formed lesson ideas

Art Sub Plan - Wayne Thiebaud - a free video that I created specifically for art subs and it is over on YouTube

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If you are looking for fully formed, high quality art sub lessons, click here to check them out at my TPT shop:  Art Sub Lessons

Here is an example of one of those lessons: 

"Native American Shields" is a lesson that I designed for use by an art sub. This PowerPoint can be projected to a class or printed out and shown up close.  This lesson is fully ready to be taught by a sub. The visuals and prompts are all right there to help a sub feel comfortable teaching a quality art lesson. You can find it for sale here: Art Sub Lessons.

This is perfect for those emergency absences when you do not have the time to write detailed plans but want to leave quality plans for your subs.

Art Sub Lesson Plan “Picasso Meets Grant Wood"

Free Art Sub Plan “Picasso Meets Grant Wood”

I recently went through all of my old sub plans and took photos of them to share with you.  I found this lesson plan on Artsonia years ago.  It was posted by Jennifer Barretto, Rhodes Elementary, San Antonio, Texas.

Here are the visuals that I left for my sub and some of the kids' work.

Since not all of our subs are comfortable with working the computer and projector, I mounted these images and words on large paper so that the sub would know exactly what to say as she was showing the visuals.

Right Brain Drawing - Art Worksheets Printables

Here’s a printable worksheet that I think my fifth graders could do as an art sub plan or art lesson. You can find the details at One Less Headache.

The post’s author said they used this worksheet as an art sub plan for the their high school art classes and that it worked well.  It included word searches and how to draw printable images.

Art Lesson Based on “The Dot”

“Art Project Girl" did this lesson with her students but suggests that it coud be used by a sub.  It is based on the book, The Dot.

If you are interested in other blog posts about The Dot, check these out:

Back to School Dot Day Ideas

and 

Circle Art Lessons

Grids and Blocks - High School Art Sub Idea 

This is from Nic Hahn (aka Mini Matisse).....from Maureen Crosbie on Flickr. From what I read in the comments on Flickr and the blog, some kids as young as 10 can master it and some 8th graders had trouble with it. This might be a lesson you would want to give a test run with those students before you tried leaving it with a sub.

Radial Name Design Art Sub Lesson 

This post originally led to a lesson at a blog called Art4Cast. It seems that this blog no longer exists. 

From what I can tell, this is how this radial name design was created. 

Starting at the center of the paper, draw lines that spiral out to the edges of the paper.

The students' names may be written in bubble letters in every space, or alternate the spaces with names and patterns.

There are other radial name design lessons on the web, but I am not sure they are sub-friendly. 

Mazes - Art Sub Plan

Mazes is a lovely sub lesson from Art is Basic. It would be excellent for middle school and upper elementary.  I think with some tweaking, it would be fun for younger ones too.

Paper Sculpture as an Art Sub Plan

Paper sculpture, or dealing with glue and scissors, is not something I would leave for just any ole substitute teacher. If you have a trusted and true one though, that might be just fine.

I found these images online and am still looking for a fully written lesson to go with it. I have found some beautiful images though.

This first image is called an “abstract movement sculpture” and it can be found here:  Art with Mrs. Peroddy

The next one also has an image.  It's on an Artsonia page and has no written lesson plan, but I think you can formulate one fairly easily though.  

Here’s an idea from Artsonia that might make for a fun and easy sub lesson.

From exhibit "Paper Sculpture 310"
by Alejandra507 (Art ID #12901177)
from Scammon Elementary School grade 3
United States

Line Design, Op Art Activity - Art Sub Plan Idea

Line Design, Op Art - Art Sub Plan Idea

This is by: 

Title – Line Design, Op Art

Green Forest School District

Warren Utsler, Instructor

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This link no longer goes to the original website, so until I can replace it, have some free art sub lessons on me. Click here to go to my TPT shop - Art Sub Lessons and download some freebies! Or click on the images below to go exactly to the freebie you want.