6th February Doodle Day

There are so many activity books which encourage children to doodle, draw, use their imagination and explore where a pencil line could take you but this a story book by Ross Collins has the perfect title for celebrating Doodle Day.

Celebrating Doodle Day became a worldwide event in 2004 to raise awareness of and funds for epilepsy research and support.

For a small donation participants can submit their doodle for judging. There is a fun way to do this here on the online doodle pad.

Get doodling or take a line for a walk, Harold of the Purple Crayon style! You could even set aside some time to read a short chapter book such as The Doodles of Sam Dibble by Judy Press while the children do doodles of their own for judging in the classroom.

26th March Purple Day

Purple Day is an international day dedicated to increasing awareness about epilepsy.

Do you need an excuse to revisit Harold and the Purple Crayon and to have fun drawing with purple? Well here it is. Get out the library's many copies of this classic book and its spin-offs and have a purple day!  While you're at it here are two other 'purple' books to add to the fun.

And if you need to explain epilepsy to children the series that stars the Great Katie Kate has a book about epilepsy.