Instant Challenge Library
cre8iowa Instant Challenges
Note: These practice exercises for Destination Imagination® teams were written by Iowa student and adult volunteers. If you would like to contribute an Instant Challenge, please e-mail us at: cre8iowa@gmail.com.
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Items marked NEW were added during the current season.
Performance-Based
- Bag Nabber
- Beauty and the Bag
- By the Numbers
- Creative Connections NEW!
- Creative Creature
- Does It Make a Sound?
- Fit for a President
- Frame of Reference
- Frame Scope
- Frame the Problem
- Freeze Frame
- If the Shoe Fits
- Invention Intervention
- It’s a Mystery
- It’s Magic
- Living in the Past
- Look Out the Window!
- Magic Mirror
- Mystery Ship
- That Sinking Feeling
- The Case of the Missing Artifact
- The Incredible WIDGET and Wonderful GIZMO NEW!
- Three Stories in Search of a Prop
- TransFORMation
- Trash Tells a Story
- You Call That Art?
Task-Based
- 100th Floor Cathedral
- Balance of Power
- Code Talkers
- Colorful Communication NEW!
- Concurrent Towers
- Framed and Counted
- Going Fishing
- High Wire Act
- Lily Pad NEW!
- On the Move
- Out of My Way!
- Ping Pong Animal
- Portrait Frame
- Slide for Life
- Slowest Maze
- Snatch the Stuff
- Tall Tower
- The Lid Flies Away With the Spoon
- Target That Frame
- Two for One
- Waiting for Weight
- Windy City NEW!
Combination
Rising Stars!®
Performance-Based
- Framed Point of View
- Life Frame
- Little Lost Dragon
- Mr. C and Mr. E’s Birthday Adventure
- Nursery of Fame and the Frame
- Sound Effects
Task-Based
- Cat Frame Corral
- Frame Up
- Water Tower
- Sounds Around Us
- London Bridge is Falling Down
- Ring That Bell
- Three Little Bags
- Tower of Frames
Note: See the Theme-Based section below for more Rising Stars!® Instant Challenges.
Theme-Based
- The Hat Rack (collection of 3 performance-based and 4 task-based Instant Challenges)
- A Roll of Plenty (collection of 3 performance-based, 3 task-based, and 6 Rising Stars!® Instant Challenges)
Other Instant Challenge Collections
- cre8iowa Member Gallery (password-protected)
- Globals-prep Instant Challenges written by cre8iowa (password-protected)
- Instant Challenge Practice Set (available in the Resource Area of Destination Imagination)
- Roadmap (shipped as part of your program materials, but also available in the Resource Area of Destination Imagination)
- Destination Imagination® Support Committee (DISC) – Resources for Practicing Instant Challenge
- ShopDI
- 2009 National Dairy Council Practice Set
- 2008 National Dairy Council Practice Set
- 2000 Regional Tournament
- Holiday Instant Challenges
Create your own Instant Challenge! Use IC Template to make it easy for your team to practice writing exercises. Feel free to submit these participant-designed Instant Challenges to cre8iowa’s Instant Challenge Library by emailing them to cre8iowa@gmail.com.