Daily Acts of Creativity For Students Podcast

This is the last episode in “Daily Acts of Creativity for Students” journey. You made it all the way through! Well done! It's time to celebrate your positive and creative nature which you have demonstrated by doing these podcast activities. Thank you for being listening and participating, leave us a review and share with your friends.

All about me is a visual arts activity. You are creative so get painting with something that is very meaningful to you.

Image Bank – A Real Selfie  For the last Photography activity, you will be capturing yourself. As you are. No filters. No effects. Use the techniques you learned in previous photography activities and share away – your most personal body of work yet!

Nature Duo For the last activity for Music, you are going to head outside and try to create a musical duo act with an animal. Enjoy the nonsensical, musical exchange.

Mirror Monologue is a drama exercise. be a monologue (a speech said by one character) to a mirror in your home. You could do this while you are getting ready for the day or at some point when you need a bathroom break. Your task is to narrate in the third person about yourself as you stare yourself in the eyes.

Refer to activity 24 for the guided meditation by Amanda O'Bryan.

Experience being grounded in your own unique creativity. This episode is hosted by Amanda O'Bryan, author of the book. Amanda guides you through a mediation to help feel more centred and focused on creativity.

Thankfulness what are you grateful for in your life? – this is an opportunity to 'count your blessings' by listing all the things you are grateful for today.  

Continuous Line Drawing is a visual arts exercise.  Life is abstract so let's have a go at drawing abstract from life. This exercise will get you drawing a person without lifting your pencil from the paper.  

Beautiful Mess. This activity captures the beauty found in ‘messy spaces' in your home and yard. It's a photography exercise, so remember some of those photography techniques mentioned in the earlier podcast series.

Stomp it out. Test the musical possibilities of things you find at home. What kind of cool sounds can you make from everyday objects?  

It's all in the detail is a drama based exercise. Grab some objects from around the house and monologue descriptively about the objects.

Movement Inspiration is dance activity. Let go of your inhibitions and dance like no-one is watching.

Play Host gives you a little time out, in mindfulness. This is an exercise in promoting wellbeing. Play host to yourself. Lay out a lovely meal, set the table with special plates or glassware and take time to enjoy the simple pleasures.  

Out my window is an art exercise to encourage you to look out and draw what you see. Choose a window in your house as a frame for sketching what you see beyond.

Flora and Fauna continues exploring photography in a series. In your garden (or your friends, friendly neighbours, or a local park) create a series of images based things you find in nature.

Point and Sing is a music exercise that will have you breaking into song at the sight of an object in your house! Sing to and about random objects in your house and play around with different music styles to suit each object.    

Play pretend is based in drama. Imagine you are on a talk show and being interviewed because you are really, really famous. Tell your life story and reveal the secret to your success to your audience.    

Walk it out is dance exercise to get your body moving and dance ready. Aside from the health benefits of walking, walking it a great way to 'shake out' your creativity. Add some extra movement while you walk as dance moves.  

Check in with your 'Daily Acts of Creativity' process. This episode is hosted by Amanda O'Bryan, author of the book. Amanda delivers strategies and tips on how to progress through the exercises while you learn more about your natural talents and strengths.