About Us
Oodles of Doodles was founded in 2008 and is family owned and operated. The founder and owner, Diana Cison, resigned from an 18 year corporate tax career as the Director of Corporate Tax to begin a more unstructured career in arts and crafts.
At Oodles of Doodles we strive to provide a variety of fun crafts designed to reinforce children's imaginations, creativity and artistic skills while having fun and saving parents and schools time and money. We understand how time consuming and costly it can be to pull together all of the supplies needed for a single craft project, both at home and at school. We've done all that work for you so you have more time to spend being creative with the kids. Craft time is also great family time and parents can also benefit from kids arts and crafts right alongside their children. We all need a boost in our creativity once in a while!
More and more studies have shown how introducing arts and crafts to children has significant benefits even if they don't pursue artistic careers.
- Increases self-esteem
- Encourages self expression
- Encourages creativity
- Gives children a sense of accomplishment
- Improves fine motor skills
- Develops self-discipline, patience and attention to detail
- Increases motivation to learn which can improve academic performance
Each Oodles of Doodles kit comes with instructions and pictures so it's easy to get started. Once kids get started, their imaginations take them the rest of the way. In the world of arts and crafts, there is no right or wrong, no rules on creativity and no limit on inspiration! Children and crafts seem to go together easily. Give them the tools and they will start creating without much prompting at all.
Oodles of Doodles has added the ability to upload your craft photos so your children can share their creations with the world.
We know adults enjoy crafting just as much as children do! Oodles of Doodles offers a selection of adult craft kits and patterns for oodles of adult sewing fun!
In a new study, which will be published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology,psychologist Jackie Andrade of the University of Plymouth in southern England showed that doodlers actually remember more than nondoodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information, like, say, during a boring meeting or a lecture. Doodling helps you pay attention! Published by Time, 2009. Article link: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882127,00.html.
Happy doodling and crafting!
A special thanks to everyone who helped make Oodles of Doodles. To Christina Calvino for all her continued creativity and help bringing the projects to life. To Johnny Cison for his extraordinary work on the website design. To my mom and dad and brother Mark Cison for their support. And to my loving husband Robert Svoboda and children, Nick and Alex, for their continued help, love and support!
