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. Please provide appropriate credit if you share any of these Instant Challenges on your Web site or blog. Thank you!

Performance-Based

• By the Numbers
• 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!
• Magic Mirror
• Mystery Ship
• That Sinking Feeling
• Three Stories in Search of a Prop
• Trash Tells a Story
• You Call That Art?

Task-Based

• 100th Floor Cathedral
• Balance of Power (coming!)
• Code Talkers
• Going Fishing
• High Wire Act
• Keep ‘Em Separated (coming!)
• Marble Obstacle Course (coming!)
• On the Move
• Out of My Way!
• Ping Pong Animal
• Slide for Life
• Slowest Maze
• Snatch the Stuff
• Tall Tower
• Toppleganger (coming!)
• Waiting for Weight

Rising Stars!®

• Task: Water Tower

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)
• Bags:
  • Performance: Bag Zone (coming!)
  • Performance: Beauty and the Bag
  • Performance: Mystery Bag Lunch (coming!)
  • Performance: Reusable Bag (coming!)
  • Task: Bag It! (coming!)
  • Task: Bag Over Troubled Water (coming!)
  • Task: Left Carrying the Bag (coming!)
  • Task: Take This Bag and Shove It (coming!)
  • Rising Stars!® Performance: Three Little Bags 
• Frames:
  • Performance: Frame of Reference
  • Performance: Frame Scope
  • Performance: Frame the Problem
  • Performance: Freeze Frame
  • Task: Floating Frames (coming!)
  • Task: Framed and Counted
  • Task: Portrait Frame
  • Task: Snaking Through the Frame (coming!)
  • Task: Target That Frame
  • Rising Stars!® Performance: Framed Point of View
  • Rising Stars!® Performance: Life Frame
  • Rising Stars!® Performance: Nursery of Fame and the Frame
  • Rising Stars!® Task: Cat Frame Corral
  • Rising Stars!® Task: Frame Up
  • Rising Stars!® Task: Tower of Frames

Other Instant Challenge Resources

• 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.