When you walk away... The Doodles come out and play!
Giant color-and-erase characters take over the building. Every room adopts one, names it, and colors it to life. In schools, libraries, and early childhood programs.
Get the parade guidehow it works
One person can run the whole parade. Everyone else just gets to enjoy it. Turnkey for whoever says yes. Optional for everyone else.
A story launches the parade. From the first moment, the Doodles are alive.
Each room names it and colors it to life. It is the newest member of the class, not a decoration.
Weekly building-wide challenges. Kids correcting a dinosaur's math is kids doing math.
300+ ready to run
Documented for Ohio
We built the parade on decades of research about how kids actually change: play, art, belonging. Here are the studies, mapped to every activity. Pairs with the SEL program and PBIS you already run.
+11 percentile points
Academic-achievement advantage for students in SEL programs, across 213 studies and 270,000+ children. Research base, not a parade outcome claim.
-13% chronic absenteeism
Among low-income students in the largest RCT in arts education (10,548 students, grades 3-8). Research base, not a parade outcome claim.
Durlak et al., 2011 · Bowen & Kisida, 2019 & 2021 · Farrington et al., 2019. See the full research base · Meet the family behind the parade · Standards finder
Whole-school culture, attendance, and Wipe away bullying as an action kids take. One person can run the whole parade. Level 0: enjoy it. Level 1: the weekly challenge. Level 2: pick from 300+ activities. Many parades cost the school nothing: a local sponsor covers it, and we help you find one.
Parade in schoolsThe children's room, circ desk, or bookmobile can adopt Doodles. Drop-in programs, Doodle Passport come-back loops, and Read-to-the-Doodle nights. Metrics that matter: door counts, program attendance, circulation.
Parade in librariesAges 18 months to 5. If a substitute can read a card, they can run the day's activity. Calmer transitions, family engagement, and a mascot for your tour. Safety details live on the ordering page.
Parade in day caresGet the parade guide
A concierge, not a sales call: a friendly human who helps you plan it, find a sponsor, and get it approved. No hard sell, ever.
Many parades cost the school nothing: a local sponsor covers it, and we help you find one.
Prefer to fund it yourselves? PTA, book fair, Title I, and purchase orders all work. Get it sponsored · Ordering
