The Google Doodle contest typically starts in January and runs through March. We did not see any information for the 2025 event, so we assume it did not happen this year. Below are the details from previous years.

For almost two decades, Google has hosted its annual "Doodle 4 Google" contest. It's the longest running contest by the tech giant featuring Google's doodle, a piece of art that uses the letters "G-O-O-G-L-E." Typically a team at Google designs the images. Once a year, they open up the opportunity to young Doodlers.

The Google for Doodle U.S. event is open to homeschoolers and students in grades K-12. There will be state and national winners. Prizes range from scholarship money to Google swag, Google hardware, and of course a display of the winner's artwork for 24 hours on Google's home page.

The 2024 theme is "My wish for the next 25 years..." Doodlers can use a wide range of art mediums including stop motion, painting in a new dimension (like VR), building a 3D model, clay, crayons, songs, or poems (to name a few).

Below are past US National winners, the winning themes, and their prizes.

Below are some Google Doodle Facts

• August 30, 1998 the first Doodle (an out-of-office message) appeared, before Google was officially incorporated

• October 31, 2000 Google revealed the first animated Doodle for Halloween

• In 2009, the first same-day Doodle was created when water was found on the moon

• May 21, 2010 celebrates 30 years or Pac-Man with the first interactive game Doodle

• Doodle for Google student contest winners have become professional artists

• Some Doodles take years and some Doodles take hours

• The Google team has designed over 5,000 Doodles over the decades

• Google has referenced 2005¹ and 2008² as the start years of Doodle for Google

  
  

For more kid-friendly competitions we think all Boston moms should know about, check out our list here.