If you’re a Kid Can Doodle Doodle Club member, you would have received our exclusive Doggie Doodle Diary. If you hadn’t signed up, here’s an excerpt of the download for you.
Doggie Doodle Diary preview
Meet Otis, our artist behind the Doggie Doodle Diary. Otis likes to doodle using a method called “continuous contour line drawing.” It means that you don’t lift your pen or pencil until your drawing is done. Sometimes it looks a bit scribbly, because you may go back and forth or around your drawing in order to get all the details in. We dare you to try it!
Otis likes to keep a diary and he draws in it everyday. In this excerpt, you can see what Otis drew on Monday. He invites you to draw too. Do you keep a doodle diary?
Printing Tips
1. The doodle download is A4 size. If you’re printing in the US, please make sure you select “fit within page dimensions” when printing on letter paper.
2. If your printer allows, select “print on both sides” of your piece of paper.
3. If you can’t print on both sides, you can place the pages together so that the printed sides face out. Glueing them together is optional. OR if you wish to save paper, simply print the second spread only, with the diary entry and drawing page.
Click here to download the doodle excerpt. Please note that by downloading Doggie Doodle Diary you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Don’t forget to check out Things I Draw (Saw) Today doodle download, created during the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meet Olive and Sally — a crab and a seagull — best friends who like to make art together. They are creators of Cardboard Critters, a series seen on our instagram. It started during the lockdown as part of our 100 Days of Animals Drawing Animals (#the100dayproject) that we continued due to such a positive response. Here are a few of our favorites:
We thought you might want to join the fun and can make the cardboard animals too. We’ve created templates to help you — we are sharing a few here and a few bonus ones in our doodle club (make sure to sign up above if you’re keen to make more.) You can make the following shown here: a snake, owl, frog or doggie. See below for the download link.
Instructions
Click here to download the Cardboard Critters. You can print them and then enlarge them on a copier if you want — sometimes it’s easier to cut a larger shape than a smaller one. You can use them in two ways:
glue them straight onto a cardboard piece, decorate and cut, or
use them as a guide to draw onto the cardboard before you cut.
We painted the cardboard with acrylic paints, but tempura paint, markers or crayons would also work.
Materials
You’ll need:
cardboard or heavyweight card stock (see note below)
good scissors
glue
paint, markers, crayons or paper to decorate your animals
Steps
Print out the template. Use at 100% of size or enlarge on a copier.
Glue the template onto your card or cardboard, or use it as a guide to draw onto your cardboard.
If using paint, paint the main color of the animal before you cut.
Cut out the shapes.
Add details or colors, such as eyes, noses, or a smile.
Challenge level
We have four templates: snake, owl, frog, and doggie. Start with the snake to get a feel for your materials. The snake is the easiest, and can be made by all ages, even preschoolers (with cutting assistance). It can also be created using construction (cartridge weight) paper. The other animals will work better with heavier card or cardboard, and younger children may need some help with cutting and putting them together.
owl
A few tips
Cardboard
This is a great way to recycle any boxes you have around the home. Choose wisely though; not all cardboard is the same thickness. If the cardboard is too thin, it will be easier to cut, but it will be flimsier when you put the pieces together, and won’t be as sturdy when you stand it up. If the cardboard is too thick, it will be harder to cut.
frog
Cutting
Cutting cardboard can be challenging and it takes practice cutting a material that’s thicker than paper. Please let parents/adults help with the cutting. You’ll need (big) sharp scissors, not the (small) children’s scissors you find in school. You may have more control by using an X-Acto Blade or matte knife and a cutting matt. However, you’d need to use a metal ruler for the straight sides, and it’s easier to cut curves with scissors than a blade. I suggest cutting loosely around the subject to release it from the larger piece of cardboard, and then cutting into the subject for details. Also, don’t always cut in a continuous line — I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but you will get better results if you cut from opposite directions into the curves or corners, as shown below.
Standing the pieces
Standing the pieces may take trial and error. Two things to keep in mind:
Make sure the piece is balanced (if not, you may need to adjust something).
When you cut the slots, they will need to be about the same height as the stand or tab piece.
To cut the slots, make one cut, and then a second cut next to the first and tear off the thin strand of cardboard. Don’t make the slot cut too wide because the stand piece(s) will stay in place better if it fits securely into the slot(s).
doggie
Click here to download the Cardboard Critters. Please remember that by downloading, you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Things I Draw (Saw) Today : At Home doodle download
This doodle download is a mini journal of Things I Draw (Saw) Today : At Home, created specially for everyone doodling at home during the “Stay at Home Stay Safe” global pandemic. I hope you like it. Here’s a preview below:
The download link follows the printing and assembling instructions. The printable PDF is set up in pagination, which means that when it’s printed correctly (on both sides), folded together, and assembled, it will flow in the correct page order.
Printing Tips
1. If your printer allows, print on both sides of your page.
2. Then collate the pages and fold into a booklet, and staple if desired.
3. If you can’t print on both sides, you can place the pages together so that the printed sides face out. Glueing them together is optional.
You’ll see that the page numbers are on the bottom on the pages so you can check the order that they should be in.
4. Voila! Be sure to share your drawings online and tag us #kidcandoodle so that we won’t miss it. 🙂
Click here to download the doodle booklet. Please note that by downloading Things I Draw (Saw) Today : At Home, you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Greetings from kidcandoodle! Hope you’re having a wonderful time, wherever you’re spending your summer vacation.
A lovely holiday tradition is sending postcards to loved ones from your trip. We’ve got a couple here for you to doodle and post. Print them out on heavier paper or glue a sheet of card stock onto the back of the printout and trim.
Click here or on the image above to download your postcards. Please remember that by downloading, you agree to our terms.
Happy Doodling!
For more doodle fun, check out our Doodle Bugs download here.
Drawing above by Harry, age 5. Just in case you want to post a card to us at kidcandoodle, please mail to Lana at 1A Kent House Road, London SE26 5LN, United Kingdom Cheers!
Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite days. Maybe it’s a silly holiday, but when I was growing up in the US, I loved giving and getting the little love notes from my classmates. In Australia (where we moved to) and in England (where we currently reside), it’s not really celebrated in schools, so you can’t buy those mini packaged valentines at the store. As a result, my sons and I have made it a tradition to make our own. Here’s a few examples of valentines we’ve made in the past.
Above from left: Little Dude putting stickers on the lolly cards; fairy cookies in stitched envelopes.
This year we’re doodling these candy cubes, and you can too. Just download this treat box template, decorate, cut out, fold and fill with candy to give to your sweeties. I recommend printing it out on heavier paper stock so that the box is strong enough to hold the goodies.
Click on the above preview to download.
Need more ideas? Here’s 90 more here and 30 more here.
Hope you have a happy Valentine’s Day!
Please note that by downloading our Valentine’s Day treat box, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
