Doodle Draws

Boosts visual-spatial skills - Drawing helps your brain see patterns, shapes, and relationships—skills often linked to creativity and big-picture thinking.

Improves focus and attention - Drawing requires concentration, planning, and patience—training your attention muscles in a way screens rarely do.

Encourages creativity and imagination - When you draw, you invent visuals, explore stories, or create new ideas, stretching the parts of your brain that handle creativity.

Supports fine motor skills and memory - Holding a pencil or brush and translating ideas onto paper strengthens hand coordination and helps connect visual thinking with memory and movement.

Reduces stress and resets the brain - Drawing is calming and gives your brain a break from constant digital stimulation, making it easier to think clearly and focus.

Bottom line: Drawing is one of the best ways to strengthen creativity, attention, and visual thinking—helping counteract many of the effects of too much screen time.

As mentioned before, Doodle Draws are more than drawing exercises—they are powerful tools for developing perception, memory, and creative thinking. These practices train students to observe carefully, recall visual details, and adapt what they’ve seen into something new. This kind of cognitive flexibility is essential not only in art but also in daily life. Whether problem-solving, expressing ideas, or simply paying closer attention to the world, students build confidence and clarity through this process.

These skills—visual memory, fine motor control, observation, and creative adaptation—are foundational for both artistic growth and real-world success. Students who regularly engage in these exercises become more attuned to their surroundings, more patient in their approach, and more capable of solving problems through creative thinking. It’s a deeply engaging and calming process that strengthens both brain and body while encouraging self-expression.

Our full art curriculum is built on this progression: Transfer (copying what is seen), Retrieval (drawing from memory), and Creation (designing original work). Art teachers — you will want to see this! This philosophy is at the heart of our full art curriculum, which follows these three phases—Transfer, Retrieval, and Creation—in a thoughtfully sequenced, developmentally sound progression.

• Transfer – Observing and replicating what is seen
• Retrieval – Drawing from memory to strengthen mental imagery
• Creation – Using imagination and learned skills to create original artwork and problem solving.

This structured pathway takes students through eight different artistic mediums and has helped many develop professional-quality portfolios—some even earning full-ride scholarships. For art teachers, parents, and therapists, this curriculum provides a clear, powerful way to nurture artistic skill and cognitive development at every level.

The Doodle Draws are the Transfer and Retrieval portion of the art curriculum.

A Tool for Every Environment

Whether you’re in a classroom, homeschool, therapy office, or senior center, Doodle Draws is a powerful tool. It’s more than just a booklet—it’s part of a proven program that builds the brain while filling time with purpose. It helps learners slow down, focus, observe, and express. It boosts confidence and guides them from basic skills to creative growth. Whether you’re teaching many students or helping one child, this resource meets each learner where they are and helps them grow—artistically, mentally, and personally.Doodle Draws offer a calming, purposeful, and highly effective tools for developing focus, patience, and artistic skill. They help individuals of all ages slow down, observe, and connect mind to 

hand—laying the groundwork for deeper learning and meaningful self-expression.

— Camille Cornaby & Wendy Castleton