DOODLE ART

While doodling has been defined as “drawing or scribbling aimlessly,” I couldn’t disagree more. If you can believe it, doodling has the capacity to improve memory, focus, and cognition.

For those of you who say doodling isn’t art, you are missing the point. It is a form of expression that, says Heller, “often triggers insights and discoveries that aren’t possible through words alone. Just think of all those napkins (or Post-Its) on which million-dollar ideas were sketched out.” As art teachers we should be teaching our students not just to make art, but how to think artistically and develop ideas and understandings in all kinds of capacities

Start Doodling

Doodle art instructions

• 1. Draw a continuous big loopy line with multiple curves. Have the line cross to make different size shapes.
  

  The more shapes your line or doodle makes, the more colorful your picture will be.

  There is no right or wrong way. Just let your kids creative process scribble a doodle.

• 2. Color in the “shapes” your line created. If you want, you can leave some of the shapes white.

  You can color your art in a pattern or you can randomly pick your colors. We randomly picked our colors.

• 3. Enjoy your artwork.