Project Library
Dear Artful Educator,
Welcome to Doodles Academy! Here, we empower you with tools to bring vibrant visual arts education into your classroom. Our projects, designed for the artful educator, are easily searchable and entirely free for your use.
(If that’s all you needed to know you can stop reading here and scroll down to search our comprehensive database.)
As a non-profit committed to enhancing children’s access to quality visual arts education, we take a holistic approach. This includes comprehensive Curricular Development & Professional Development to uplift your teaching experience. Join our Artful Teaching Collective, “Outside the Lines. ,” for an opportunity to be among the first to explore new resources and contribute as a BETA tester. Our offerings are centered around:
- Accessible and Adaptable Curriculum: Free access to a flexible yet comprehensive curriculum, ensuring integrity in art instruction while accommodating diverse teaching settings.
- Embracing Diverse Perspectives: Projects that celebrate diverse artistic expressions and encourage students to explore their own stories, fostering a rich, inclusive learning environment.
- Integration Across Subjects: Our curriculum bridges art with literacy, social studies, and more, enhancing communication skills and promoting critical and creative thinking.This article mentions your favorite hats at super low prices. Choose from same-day delivery, drive-up delivery or order pickup.
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For districts interested in integrating our curriculum and/or resources on a wider scale, please reach out to us at info@doodles-academy.org for tailored solutions and pricing.
Dive in and discover how you can inspire your students through the power of art!
Warmly, The Doodles Academy Team
The Curriculum Collection:
Where do we go from here? Landing Page
How can communities adapt in the age of climate change? What tools do they need to make this possible?
Tiny Still Life Landing Page
Students build a small sculpture of their choice from recycled materials, then draw it using observation skills on large paper. They finish with paint.
The Secret Language of Objects Project Landing Page
Students learn how objects can represent an idea, or serve as symbols. They use symbols to create an artwork that can tell a story.
The Introspective Artist Landing Page
How can we use art to better understand ourselves and our unique experiences?
Symbol & Self Landing Page
Students create metaphorical self-portraits.
Superheroes Project Landing Page
Students learn to recognize shapes and types of lines as they design and draw their own superheroes.
Rainforest Creature Marionettes Project Landing Page
Students learn about animal defense mechanisms and invent an animal ideally suited to live in the rainforest. They create a marionette puppet of their invention.
Persian Miniatures Landing Page
Students learn about Persian Miniatures. They then create an illustration of a story or poem using an engraving technique.
Near & Far Project Landing Page
Student artists create a landscape of somewhere they have always wanted to see and visit (older students use ‘Google Maps’ to virtually visit, younger students create a collaged book of ideas). They then learn about how color can change the ‘mood’ of a painting.
Mexican Alebrije Landing Page
Students learn about the history and creation of a Mexican folk art called Alebrije. Students create their own imaginary creatures. There is an emphasis on color choices and texture.
Me & My Monster Project Landing Page
Students learn about visual poetry, create a poem about a monster helper, draw a self-portrait, and rearrange their poems in a visual way with the self-portrait.
Magical Creature Houses
Magical Creature Houses Essential Question: How are homes designed to fit our needs? connects to ELA, Environmental Science, Social Studies, Cultural Awareness, Engineering and Problem Solving artworks to discuss Connects to Social Justice Standards connects to...
Learning about Native American Totem Animals Landing Page
Students learn about the importance of animals to Indigenous people. They create a self-portrait that uses animals to symbolize themselves and, if they wish, their family.
Heroes Among Us
How do you develop the skills to become a hero?
Frame of Reference Landing Page
What does it mean to be a ‘Historical Fact’?
Fashion & Culture Project Landing Page
How does clothing represent aspects of self and culture?
Enchanted Lands Project Landing Page
Students learn about compositional elements as they create a magical setting that could host fairy tales.
Embracing Challenges Project Landing Page
Students learn about artists who faced different mental and physical challenges, and complete a recycled sculpture by getting their own series of challenges.
Dream House Project Landing Page
Students build their ‘dream house’ then draw it using observation drawing.
Designing the Zodiac Project Landing Page
Students learn about constellations across many different cultures and create their own constellation and write their own origin story.
Create-a-Creature Landing Page
Students learn about hybrid creatures in mythology, then create their own.
Community Connection Landing Page
What is a community?
Close Encounters Project Landing Page
Students study the woman artist ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’. They bring in objects that are special to them and draw them, closely considering their own compositions as they work.
Artist, Explorer, Scientist Landing Page
Students learn John Audubon & scientific drawing. They choose an animal, research it, and draw an accurate picture in it’s habitat.
Art & Advocacy Project Landing Page
Students learn about how designers can advocate through design by exploring water advocacy groups; they choose a contemporary topic that they care about and design a persuasive poster about it.
Around the Neighborhood Project Landing Page
Students learn about Jacob Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance. They make a collage that depicts their own neighborhood, with a focus on color.
Anthropomorphic Animals Landing Page
Students choose an animal, draw it realistically from photographs, and then use the background to show what human traits the animal has come to represent.
America is Hard to See Landing Page
What does it mean to be American?
A Toy’s Story Landing Page
Students depict where their toys go in their imagination.
A Portrait in Time Landing Page
How do artists create art that communicates their experience?
A Place in Space Landing Page
What is our relationship with the buildings and the spaces that surround us?
Our Collection of Programs
Outside the Lines
An ongoing series of projects that are put out 8x per year. This series uses art to thread together cross-content ideas and are designed to be flexible (in materials as well as ideas) so that teachers can implement the content in a manner that suits their individual teaching situation.
Art & Literacy
A grade-aligned curriculum, connected to content-rich literacy topics. This series supports teachers in using art to build knowledge around the topics in their school’s ELA curriculum and includes video lessons & text sets
Doodles at Home
Our curriculum, adapted for students who are studying at home and need to access the content independently. Free to access.