Drawing in Spanish

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If you are looking for a quick sub plan activity, or a way to give your students more listening, let’s look at some ideas for drawing in Spanish! These are perfect for comprehension and culture. We can use drawing as a tool in so many ways in classes, so let’s look at some possibilities!

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Drawing in Spanish Youtube Videos

Drawing in Spanish with Ehlke Art

From her channel, let’s meet Lori!

Can’t draw? I’m here to help! Here are some step-by-step videos to help you learn to draw and paint at any age. Follow along and before you know it, you’ll be creating all kinds of fun pictures that you never knew you could.

Lori Ehlke is an artist and art teacher and has enjoyed teaching art for the past 13 years to all ages. Her favorite thing to do is paint watercolor portraits of people and their pets. Lori hopes to inspire others to try art and enjoy the process.
About Ehlke Art

Her channel has a whole playlist of videos for drawing in Spanish! I’ve linked the playlist above for you to check them out. She has some videos that could be used at any time, like this Dibujo un gato video, and some that are more seasonal, like this Dibujo una calabaza video.

Drawing in Spanish Sub Plan

If you wanted to use her video(s) as a sub plan, you might need to leave more than just the video! Some of them are longer than others, none of them are 40 minutes long so they won’t go a whole class period. Some thoughts for extension activities:

watch & record all the words you understand
write the translation for those words
watch and follow along while you draw as she draws
color your completed drawings
write a story using your drawing as a main character

Looking for more sub plan ideas? Check out this blog post for 8 activities to choose from!

Read and Draw in Spanish

This activity is something you can do with any reading, and you don’t even have to make copies – it’s that simple!

Students read (or re-read) the selection you provide for them. Then they illustrate the story to show their understanding!

If you’re looking to extend this activity, there’s a few options for you:

have students cut up their drawings and share them with each other, putting them in order
students put the drawings back in order and retell the story out loud as they do so
students trade again, put the drawings in order onto another sheet of paper, then write a sentence to describe each scene
if you have a document camera, you could project scenes drawn by students and narrate them for the class
take pictures of the students’ drawings and project them on Slides
use them in Reverse Running Dictation

Projects for Spanish Class

If you’re looking for more ways to include drawing in your Spanish classroom, you may like these easy to use art projects!

Click here for this Roll a Picasso project!

Even if you feel uncomfortable focusing on artistic skills, I promise these projects are so easy, all of your students can be successful. Students follow simple, step by step directions to add their elements to their projects.

Check them out!