Children's Day: Google Doodle on Children's Day through the years

In India, Children’s Day is celebrated on 14th November every year to mark the birth anniversary of our first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. It is celebrated to increase awareness about children’s rights in our country. Search engine giant, Google, annually organises a doodle competition in various countries for kids to create a Google doodle that will be featured on the local Google homepage as a doodle. The kids are supposed to give a brief description of their doodle on the given theme and the winner is decided through public voting. In India, the winner’s doodle is featured on 14th November on the occasion of national children’s day.

2019

Photo Credit: Google Doodle

Theme: 'WHEN I GROW UP, I HOPE..'

Winner: Divyanshi Singhal - DPS, Gurgaon.

Doodle in her words: “When I grow up, I hope the trees could walk or fly. The land could be cleared so easily without making them die. There would be so little deforestation and humans can just ask trees and their friends to move to another place. With movable oxygen generators, it will be the beginning of a new era.”

2018

Photo Credit: Google Doodle

Theme: “What inspires me?”

Winner: Pingla Rahul More from Mumbai.

Doodle in her words: “In my Doodle, I demonstrated what inspires me. I am extremely inspired by Space Exploration as there is still so much more to know about our Universe -- from planets to stars to galaxies and beyond. It is inspiring to learn how small we are, and how small our problems are, in the grand scheme of things. To convey my idea, I drew myself trying to see the expanse of the space through a telescope, I created galaxies, planets and spacecraft to represent the vastness of things in space. (carefully arranged to represent each letter in the Google logo).”

2016

Photo Credit: Google Doodle

Theme: "If I could teach anyone anything, it would be...”

Winner: Anvita

Doodle in her words: "In the current stressful times, greatest joys of life are often hidden in simple things, thus I would like to teach everyone to take time to enjoy every moment of life and appreciate the simple things around us."

2015

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Theme: "If I could create something for India, it would be..."

Winner: P Karthik from Visakhapatnam.

Doodle in his words: "This machine will recycle all the plastic waste from our country and turn it into a material which helps the growth of mother nature. This machine will turn the most powerful evil plastic into green."

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