New item for sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers store — entrance slips for art teachers!

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If you’re new to my website, you may not be aware that in my “day job,” I’m a school librarian.

One of the elective classes I teach is Introduction to Art. This past year, as my art students entered the classroom, they were immediately given a quick sketch practice, which we called their “entrance slip.”

I projected an easy-to-sketch graphic on the whiteboard, and they had to copy the text (which related to the elements of art) and try to draw the graphic in the first five minutes of class.

Here’s one of the entrance slips, which we used as a warm-up (sometimes called a “bell-ringer”) in my art class this past year:

A one-dimensional cupcake is being projected onto a screen with the text that reads, "this week's sketch practice theme: shape." — You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood

If you know anyone who teaches art, or if you, yourself, teach art, you may be interested to learn that I’ve turned my sketch practice entrance slips into one big PDF, and I’ve got it up for sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

The focus of each sketch practice is the elements of art. This one, for example, is on patterns:

Here we see a scratch paper with a pattern drawn on it. The text reads, "The slides are part of a PDF that you can show like a slide show." To find my Teachers Pay Teachers store, please go to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood — You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood

Altogether, I’ve got 46 graphics, with most of them focused on the elements of art.

As it says in the image below, they’re a great tool to use as bellwork, you can use them as sketchbook prompts, and they are great for a lesson review in the elements of art.

The image shows 15 different sketch practices for an art class to use as "entrance slips." The text says, "PDF of 46 simple images." To find my Teachers Pay Teachers store, please go to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood — You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood

On average, there are four examples of each element of art, with a few oddballs thrown in, like “text as art.”

You may think, “But there are five days in a week. Why only four entrance slips?”

I’ve designed this series of sketch practices or entrance slips so that the final day — Friday — can be a quiz over whatever element of art was highlighted that week. My open-ended quiz is also available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store, or you can buy a bundle with the sketch practice entrance slips, the quiz, lesson plans, and more for a single fee.

This image shows a classroom with an open-ended art-themed quiz on the whiteboard at the front of the classroom. — You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood

If you know anyone who teaches art, you might send them a link to my TpT store or just mention my website to them.

What really helps get the word out, though, is when you pin my images on Pinterest and/or share them on various social media outlets.

These sketch practice entrance slips have been a real time-saver for getting my art class started in a timely and positive fashion, and I’m hoping other teachers of art will find them helpful too!

Here we see a lamp post drawn on scratch paper with a sign hanging under the lamp post that reads "text as art." The text above this sketch practice drawing says, "on average there are 4 concept slides per week, which you can follow with a quiz." To find my Teachers pay Teachers store, go to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood — You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood

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The image says, "entrance slips for art class" and shows nine images which can be quickly and easily sketched as students enter the art classroom. You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood — You can find my Teachers Pay Teachers store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chelly-Wood

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