California Resources
- Enroll your team and learn about the steps needed to get going
- Register your team for your Regional tournament. Please do this as soon as possible after you have purchased your team number but please wait a couple of days after you make your team number purchase . You can always add and edit later.
- Team Manager Training — held in your region. Check the Calendar for dates and location
- Team Manager Training Webinars — A series of 8 – seventy-five minute session.
- Challenge Orientation Webinars: sign up for a chance to interact with the Affiliate Challenge Masters; these webinars are provided (one Challenge at a time including IC) between November 3 and 18.
- The Creative Process and Project Based Learning
- Challenge Clarifications: Check the Challenge Clarifications Often
- Team Manager’s Corner … timely tips and tricks to help Team Managers through the Destination Imagination season
- 100 Instant Challenge along with appraiser forms available on CD for a nominal price
- High School Seniors, learn about California Destination Imagination scholarships
- Some ideas for fund raising
Other Destination Imagination Resources
- DI University – Short videos on team manager training topics
- Visit the Resource Area from Destination Imagination, Inc., to get the official Challenge Program materials. You will need to log in using your DI userid and password.
- Free resources for teachers, Team Managers, and teams including Instant Challenges and other fun activities.
- Challenge Tips for Teams, many from Destination Imagination alumni
- Team Manager Resources from DISC, the Destination Imagination Support Committee
- From New York Destination Imagination, Some Secrets of a Successful Team and What to do if your Team is Stuck from their Tools for Managing a Team
- Team Building and Icebreakers
- Structure Building Tips
- High School Seniors, learn about DISC Scholarships
Other Useful Internet Resources
- Cardboard
- Cardboard crafts gallery: Ideas to share, to help teams build skills and to spur the imagination. Cardboard is a great cheap resource. Recycle boxes from local stores or ask a box manufacturer to donate some raw flat stock.
- Repurpose cardboard boxes: How-to instructions to inspire props and set pieces including refrigerator, castle, doll bed, car, and more.
- PVC pipe
- PVCPlans: Dozens of free plans for building things out of PVC pipe; backdrops, props, gadgets. An inexpensive DI-friendly resource.
- PVC Ideas and Tutorials: Another clever PVC page with tutorials on how to use PVC with ideas to spur the imaginations of team members.
- Costumes and makeup
- Children’s makeup for stage: A handy-dandy tutorial for applying makeup for stage performances.
- Homemade kid’s costumes: Halloween costumes from Martha Stewart, some awesome examples with instructions that may spark ideas for your team.
- Clever DIY costume inspirations: collected on Pinterest, beards, wigs, jelly fish, hot air balloons … Oh My!
- Creative costume ideas: more cute and creative ideas for costumes.
- Costumes from recycled boxes: costumes made from recycled cardboard boxes, Rubik’s cube, dinosaur, and more.
- Sets and props
- Making a theatre flat: Directions on how to build a theatre backdrop. You team can use these instructions and modify them to be meet their needs.
- Stage props: a Pinterest collection with ideas for making many different stage props.
- Recyled materials props: Using common items in uncommon ways to create props.
- Trash to treasure: Another Pinterest page, this one collecting ideas for reusing plastic bottles.
- Duct tape
- Duct tape activites: You can’t do DI without a little duct tape. This is a great page with many projects and activities you can make with duct tape.
- Duct tape boots: How to make costume boots from duct tape, and other materials.
- Duct tape flowers: Instructions and pictures for making various flowers.
- Duct tape crafts: A great site with hundreds of ideas.
- Drama and performing
- Drama and Theater Resource Guide: “Comprehensive Learning Guide for Students and Teachers”
- Drama Notebook: “World’s largest collection of drama activities for kids”
- Drama warm up games for kids: Get children moving, thinking, and acting.
- 5 Ways to Help Your Kids Project Their Voice on Stage
- Drama Game: Alien, Tiger, Cow: Get students comfortable around each other.
- Drama Games for Kids: Fun and easy drama games ideal for young actors.
- Costume and Makeup Tricks: DIY costume and makeup ideas.
- Story Telling
- Story Writing Tips for Kids: Character and conflict, plot and dialogue, setting and scenes, write and revise.
- Make a Story Roll: A happy activity that gets children excited about creating stories.
- Write a Story from an Ant’s Perspective: A good chance to help kids explore other perspectives.
- Wham! Bam! Kapow! Cartoon Story Telling: Teach children how to work in all the essential parts of a story.
- Story Bags: A fun activity to generate fun stories.
- Seven Steps to the Perfect Story: A guide to story telling success.
- How to Tell a Story: A collection of TED talks which explore various aspects of this topic
- Miscellaneous
- How sound is made: Teach kids how sound is made.
- Making music with kids: Another site with more information about making sound, music, and instruments.
- NASA space place: awesome learning crafts and projects to try