Doodle 4 Google Contest Is Back!!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on February 19, 2009 at 9:32am

I teach gifted kids and we offer this option to 2-6th. I print out the information including rules, student registration sheet, and parent signature form (with fine print). I also print out several hundred templates from the website--most of the kids use the 'dotty' template and they take as many as they might need. I always tell them that the first 20 ideas they think of will be the same as EVERYBODY else will think of (war, poverty, environment, rain forest etc) They use markers, colored pencils, crayons, paint (messy) or computer. To use computer the kids open the template in Paint or some other paint program. We've also scanned in drawn pictures and kids color them in Paint. Except for the scanning all of this work is done at home and is optional.

Here are our kids entries from last year (you can only submit 6 from a classroom)

Here is the Doodle 4 Google website.

Holiday Googles

Australian Winners 2006

Last Year's Winners

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Permalink Reply by Eve Heaton on February 20, 2009 at 5:02am

I am doing this with my fourth grade class. I tried to get my school art teacher in on it but no go. I assigned their "wish" as a homework writing assignement one week and the drawing the next (giving them the weekend, due Monday). We talked about avoiding common "wishes" like Nancy stated below but still students went with the obvious. I have a couple of standouts that are going in the contest. I also printed out lots of templets from the website but just stuck with the black and white and dotted outline, since I don't have a color copier. The kids are enjoying doing it. I am encouraging them to make a rough draft first and then do their final. Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on February 20, 2009 at 7:07am

We also only used the b/w and dotty templates.

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