Parade activity
School-Wide Parade Challenges
For School
- K-8
- School
- Event
- Community
Documented for Virginia: SEL, character education, attendance.
What it is
Building-wide challenges that make the parade a whole-school culture event - the visible, documentable program inspectors and principals can point to.
Source: School-Wide DoodleFace Parade Challenges
- Timean event — typically a day or a week
- Setupa little setup
What you need
- Every class's Doodle
- crayons and eraser cloths
- the challenge you pick
Steps
- Step 1 of 3
Choose the challenge
Pick one from the menu below (or invent your own) and announce it to the whole school.
- Step 2 of 3
Run it across the building
Every class takes part with its own Doodle.
- Step 3 of 3
Parade and tour
Place the Doodles into the parade outside the classrooms, and let classes tour the building to see — or solve — what everyone made.
Tips
- School Spirit Coloring: color for school spirit — mascots, school colors, teams.
- Everyone, Everywhere: drop everything and color — every student, teacher, and staff member colors part of a Doodle until every Doodle in the school has been colored by all the people.
- Showing Appreciation: decorate Doodles to celebrate people in the school or community.
- Guess Who: color Doodles as famous people from history or school staff; other classes guess from a list.
- Dress as your teacher: Doodles get colored like their classroom teacher.
- Short Story: turn each Doodle into a short story, complete with pictures.
- Poem: write simple poems on the Doodles and color to match.
- Secret Message: each class hides a secret word on its Doodle; on the tour, classes race to uncover them all — first to find every message wins.
- Color in the Kindness: the Wipe-Away Bullying companion — Doodles wait outside classrooms with sad spots, and classes color them in with happiness through the day.
- Love Tag: one Doodle starts with a small red heart (tag, you're it) and tags two more; the last Doodle without a heart is the last to get the love.
- Tie-Dyed Three-Color: each class picks three random colors and tie-dyes with only those.
- Lines of Love: color in continuous lines — once you lift a crayon, that color is done.
- Collaborative Coloring: one class starts, then Doodles switch rooms so another class continues — as fast-paced as you like.
- Seasonal & Events: theme it to a season, holiday, or school event.
- Environmental Awareness: color scenes of recycling, gardening, and green practice at school.
- Swap for the Day: classrooms swap Doodles, photograph the visitor's adventures, and check on their own Doodle through the day's uploaded pictures.
- Catch the Principal's ______: classes hunt the principal's animal around the school; find it, photograph it, and the finding class may re-hide it for the next searchers.
What it supports
Aligned and documented to
Research it’s built on
Evidence note: The Bowen & Kisida (2019) findings apply to grades 3-8; the 13% absenteeism finding (2021) was measured among low-income students.
Compliance determinations are always the district’s or institution’s.
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it’s ridiculously fun, impactful and easy
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