Library program for kids: giant color-and-erase characters | DoodleFace Parade

When you walk away... The Doodles come out and play!

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Children sitting for storytime in a library with a giraffe Doodle

A reader with children and a bear Doodle in front of library shelves

A child with a dog Doodle beside library bookshelves

Fourth graders holding books beside a Doodle during a reading program

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Pick your state to see what it requires and what the parade covers. The practices it draws on appear in about 30 peer-reviewed studies and reviews of children in schools and early childhood programs. No study of the parade yet.

Kids find out each morning what their Doodle did overnight.
Pulls families and the whole community together.
Kids practice kindness, creativity, and standing up for each other.
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Pencil in your parade.

Start here: Adopt-a-Doodle

Grand Entrance, then The Challenge Trail or The Challenge Station (stay in the library), then Take It Home.

The core pages are not on the public site yet.

Print kit and age tracks

Print kitFiles are on the activity page.
LittlesFiles are on the activity page.
PreschoolFiles are on the activity page.
K-2 ReadersFiles are on the activity page.
Grades 3-6 ExplorersFiles are on the activity page.

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