Create a Day!

Create a Day - Day 16 - Unicorn YOGA!

Join Amber Sparkle Energy for Unicorn Yoga in Episode 2 of Unicorn Aerobics!

1. Put on your sparkliest and most rainbow-tastic clothing!
2. Video yourself joining Amber Sparkle Energy for Unicorn Yoga!
3. Let your inner ✨sparkle✨ SHINE!! 🦄🌈💖

Create a Day - Day 15 - Share Your Favorite Theatre Memory!

1. Think about all of the wonderful things we’ve done in theatre this year!
2. Post a picture (or pictures) or just share a description of the memory! You can post on your own Instagram, or email it to Ms. Bower!
3. Ms. Bower had too many to pick one - so you can do more than one too! - Check out the CPMS Instagram @CedarParkMSTheatre if you want to see some of Ms. Bower's favorite memories from this year!

Create a Day - Day 14 - Voiceover Challenge!

1. Explore different elements of vocal expression - think about the volume, pitch, quality, enunciation, energy, emotion, and general quality of your voice!

2. Then you have two options! Either....

3a. Voice a character! This could be an action figure, or stuffed animal, or original drawing/character from your imagination!

3b. Create a voiceover for a trailer of you doing an activity! This could be something dramatic or something completely normal.

4. Put the voiceover and the video footage together!

5. And share! This is your time to create and explore and find some of your own strengths in vocal expression!

Create a Day - Day 13 - Cleaning Challenge

Today’s challenge is brought to us by @kyrascraftycreations inspired by @bwayamerica thanks Kyra for the awesome idea!!

1. Record a 5 second video of yourself cleaning something around the house (washing the dog, mopping the floor, dusting the blinds, etc)
2. Then send the video to @kyrascraftycreations or to Ms. Bower (who will forward them to Kyra!)
3. Kyra will splice all the videos together and put them with the song “It’s a Hard Knock Life!” 4. We can’t wait to see all of your clips! 😊

Create a Day - Day 12 - UNICORN AEROBICS!!!!!!

1. Put on your sparkliest and most rainbow-tastic clothing!

2. Video yourself joining Amber Sparkle Energy for your Wellness Wednesday UNICORN AEROBICS!!

3. Let your inner ✨sparkle✨ SHINE!! 🦄🌈💖

#createaday #cpmscreateaday #unicorn #unicornaerobics #letyourinnersparkleshine #workout #glitter #rainbows #1lisd

Create a Day - Day 11 - Poetry Set Design CROSSOVER!

1. Pick a play, musical, poem, or other piece of text and create an original set design!
2. Use a shoebox or your room and design the set for a play or musical
3. Use markers, cardboard, paper, toys, sticks, leaves, random objects, whatever you have to make the model set!
4. Take a picture or make a video tour of your set and then write a short paragraph explaining which play you chose and why you made your design choices
5. Share the picture/video and explanation on Google Classroom, Instagram, Padlet, OR with Ms. Reed AND Ms. Bower!

A HUGE shout out to Ms. Reed for coming up with this crossover idea! Thanks for making CPMS an awesome place!!!

Create a Day - Day 10 - Check in with yo TEACHERS!

Create a Day - Day 9 - Positivity Collage!

This one is brought to us courtesy of Ms. Roth over at Canyon Ridge Middle School! Thank's Ms. Roth!

1. Think of some things that make you happy!
2. Put them in a collage!
3. Look at said collage when you’re feeling blue.
4. Have a great weekend!

Create a Day - Day 8 - Digital Storytelling!

1. Use the story prompts (below) to think of a personal story.
2. Write out or outline your story - and/or tell it to a family member or for practice!
3. Make a voice recording of yourself telling the story.
4. Pop your voiceover into iMovie or movie maker or another video app!
5. Add pictures or video to help you tell the story.
6. Add sound!
7. Share it with Ms. Bower!
8. You also can send these into me at any time - so if this takes you a bit longer, no worries! It’s all optional anyway :)

Story Prompts:

• The story of your name (first name, last name, nick name, etc.)
• A crossroads or turning point in your life – A time when you had to make some important choices
• An important photograph
• A secret or special place
• A time when you were lost or had an adventure in:
  • The woods
  • The grocery store
  • On vacation
  • In a restaurant
• A time when you were afraid…
  • In the dark
  • In a tent
  • Of something in the closet or under the bed
  • Of something in your imagination
  • Of another person
• The first time you…
  • Rode a two-wheel bike, or drove a car by yourself
  • Tried to cook a meal or special dish
  • Spent the night at a friend’s house
  • Really liked someone… like a lot.
  • Were in the hospital
  • Went to camp
• Spending a wonderful day with grandparents or other special people
• A memorable holiday
• The best or worst day you ever had
• A favorite pet
• A most embarrassing moment (maybe it was longer than a moment)
• A wonderful or terrible party
• A family story you’ve heard told so many times you lost count
• Introduce us to a favorite, memorable, or very special person
• A time when you were wrong about a first impression
• A time when you felt you had learned a very important lesson
• A time when your life changed

Create a Day - Day 7 - WASH YO HANDS

1. Pick a song you love!
2. Find out 20 seconds of the song that work perfectly as a hand washing bop!
3. Record a video yourself singing/dancing along to the hand washing bop! Post it in the variety of places you can post it!
4. While this is all optional, bonus imaginary Bower points if you get your family members to perform with you.
5. This video today was requested by some of our awesome friends - one of whom is a pediatric ICU nurse! So all of the bops today go out to our amazing health care professionals! Thank you all for everything you are doing to keep us safe and healthy.
6. If you can’t see the bop video head to the CPMS Website or check today’s story.
7. Human well everyone!

Create a Day - Day 6 - Picture Prompt!

1. Pick a picture from Ms. Bower’s writing prompt Pinterest! https://pin.it/7DBybjH (you may need to look at it on a non-district computer or device) OR look at the picture Google Slide Show Below!
2. Pick a character or characters in the picture, or just look at the picture as a whole!
3. Use this character or picture as inspiration for a character monologue, short scene, or beginning of a play!
4. To help you write, think about close questions you could ask about the picture. Questions like: Who is this person? Where did they just come from? What happened the moment before this picture was taken? What are they looking at? Where are they going? What are they thinking in this moment? How did they get here?
5. Post your writing with the inspiration picture on Instagram, Padlet, Google Classroom, or you can also email it to Ms. Bower!
6. Happy writing everyone!

Create a Day - Day 3 - Costume Challenge!

1. Pick a character from a play (or movie, or TV show) or make one up!
2. Create a drawing (rendering) of an original costume design for that character using the elements of design!
3. OR create the look using clothing/fabric, or other things you might have around your house!
4. Share your design on Instagram, on the Create a Day Padlet - https://padlet.com/brianabower/CreateaDay, on Google Classroom, or with Ms. Bower via email!
5. Laugh at how cringey your teacher is because she is so very very bored and missed you so very very much.

Create a Day - Day 2 - Book Challenge!

Today is a book performance/design challenge! Here are the steps!

1. Go to a bookcas
2. Pick a shelf.
3. Count to 23 (if there are fewer than 23 books, just circle back around).
4. Open this book to page 39 - or really any number, that was just the random page I opened to.
5. Pick a paragraph.
6. Do a dramatic reading or design or voice over with your design, record it, and share it!
7. Get creating!
8. I’ll post mine later on today! Have fun y’all!

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! Starting tomorrow I’m going to be posting daily activities, creative mini projects, self care resources and what not here on the Instagram, on the CPMS Theatre website, and on all of my Google Classrooms! These are optional daily activities that I’m hoping will keep us creative, active, and engaged with each other. I’m calling it Create a Day! The idea is that we’re creating something every day - this could mean something artistic, or it may be as simple as creating some space and taking care of yourself. We are in fact a community of creators and I’m looking for ways to share what we create with each other. One way to do that is to tag this Instagram account or to use the hashtag #cpmscreateaday and/or #createaday to engage with each other! You can also tag the CPMS Instagram @cedarparkms theatre to share your work! I’m also looking into non-social-media ways for us to share as well. This is totally optional, and you don’t need to be in theatre to participate, but I hope you play along! Thanks everyone! Miss you lots. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Human well! 💙

Much Love,

Ms. Bower