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. Instant Challenges published by Students for a Creative Iowa are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Performance-Based
- Creative Creature
- Fit for a President
- If the Shoe Fits
- It’s a Mystery
- It’s Magic
- Living in the Past
- Look Out the Window!
- Mystery Ship
- That Sinking Feeling
- Three Stories in Search of a Prop
- Trash Tells a Story
- You Call That Art?
Task-Based
- Code Talkers
- Going Fishing
- On the Move
- Out of My Way!
- Ping Pong Animal
- Slowest Maze
- Tall Tower
- Waiting for Weight
Theme-Based
Other Instant Challenge Resources
- This year’s Instant Challenge Practice Set (available in the Resource Area of IDODI)
- This year’s Roadmap (shipped as part of your program materials, but also available in the Resource Area of IDODI)
- 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
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.

