National Doodle Day

National Doodle Day — doodling to help people whose lives are affected by epilepsy.National Doodle Day is about having fun while raising funds to help people whose lives are affected by epilepsy. Since the very first National Doodle Day in 2004, over £215,000 has been raised!Stuck somewhere, waiting or listening with pen in hand? Chances are you’ll start doodling. Printed letters grow faces and legs, an underlined word turns into a pile of boxes, or a decorative border appears round the edge. Wait long enough and the whole thing may get blocked out or scribbled over!Doodles may be shapes, patterns, drawings or scribbles – anything we produce in an idle moment while the focus of our attention is elsewhere. It’s amazing how creative we can be without even trying! Strangely, doodles seem to take shape of their own accord, as if they had a life of their own in a parallel world. So you may suddenly find a circled word transformed into a sun beaming down on a desert island, punctuation turned into arrows or flowers, or a lover’s name emerging bold as brass from a memo. Meetings and phone calls can be very tedious and some people hate doing nothing.They get tense and frustrated if they are short of time or have no opportunity to voice their opinions, so they while away dead time by doodling.Doodling helps relieve boredom and frustration and the urge to doodle gets stronger as stress levels rise.Doodling is like a safety valve that allows pressure to be dispelled in a playful and creative way.

Get involved and help the cause, if you follow this link to the website there are games and lots of other things to do to help.