When you walk away... The Doodles come out and play!
Ages 18 months to 5. A substitute can run the card.
If a substitute can read a card, they can run the day's activity. One person can run the whole parade. Optional for everyone else.
Get the parade guidein day cares
It pretty much runs itself.
One person can run the whole parade. Everyone else just gets to enjoy it. Turnkey for whoever says yes. Optional for everyone else.
Floor-level, with adults visible
Toddler rooms adopt a Doodle they can reach. Mixed-age rooms share one. You reuse it with the next cohort.
A card, not a lesson plan
The day's activity is on a card. If a substitute can read it, they can run it.
Take-Home Challenges as documentation
Family engagement you can file for QRIS. Give your tour a mascot.
300+ ready to run
Activities
What directors actually watch.
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.
QRIS points
Take-Home Challenges give you family-engagement documentation you can file.
Tours with a mascot
A named Doodle gives the walk-through something kids already know.
Safety one-liner
DoodleFace crayons wash off surfaces far more easily than regular crayons. Full ASTM, choking, and ingredient details live on Ordering.
See the full research base · Meet the family behind the parade
Make the case
The guide email is written for directors and owners, with the sponsor-first money answer.
- Calmer transitions and family engagement, not a new curriculum to replace what you run.
- Mixed-age rooms and reuse-next-cohort are first-class answers, not afterthoughts.
- Single-room parades work when you want to start smaller than the whole center.
When centers usually start
Fall enrollment, Week of the Young Child in April, and summer program planning.
Many parades cost the school nothing: a local sponsor covers it, and we help you find one. Get it sponsored · Ordering
Get the day care 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.