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Welcome to your summer journeys with Wheelock Family Theatre! Each of the following activities is designed to take you on an ever-expanding adventure from within yourself (Inner Journeys) to around the world (World Travels). Along the way, you will experience your own imagination, as well as art, literature, theatre, and nature. Each activity is designed to be open-ended and invite your own creativity. Any project that involves writing can be done through drawing. Drawing projects can also become writing activities. Or you can design your own activity. We call this the “Wild Card'' option. Whenever you accomplish a task, place a sticker in your passport. Wild cards count too! Aim to get as many stickers as possible! Many activities include examples as a source of inspiration. Links to all examples as well as links to all virtual field trips are available on our website: wheelockfamilytheatre.org Contents 03 Inner Journeys 07 Theatre Magic 04 Imaginative Wanderings 08 Nature Treks 05 Artistic Adventures 09 World Travels 06 Literary Excursions 10 Virtual Field Trips Learn About Our Virtual Classes Want more WFT programming? Take a virtual summer class! This summer’s theme, “Adventure Awaits: Come Journey with Us” invites artists everywhere and from anywhere to embark on interactive, imaginative quests alongside travel companions who share your creative spirit. We have created an itinerary of new and diverse detours and destinations. Whether you choose an individual adventure or an extended excursion, this is not your typical zoom class. Spend some time on screen and find inspiration for a summer full of creativity, connection and self discovery off screen. We are committed to providing access for all for our classes by offering full and partial scholarships for every one of our programs. Visit our website to learn more about our classes and how to request tuition assistance. Sometimes the journey is the destination. Make your travel plans today! 2 SUMMER 2021 Inner Journeys 1) RECIPE FOR A DAY 7) GIFT OF GRATITUDE Think of all the things that you want to do tomorrow and write What is something that happened recently that gave a little boost them down as if they were a recipe. Write each activity you plan to to your day, or made you smile? Write a thank you note to do in a list (like a list of ingredients!) and include how much time whomever or whatever caused that moment of joy. Consider you want to spend on each (like a measurement of each including a description of this experience and how it made you ingredient!). Then write a narrative of how you plan to journey feel. See “The Gift of Kindness” in the Imaginative Wanderings between each activity. That’s your recipe for the day! category for how you might pay this idea forward and bring joy to someone else. 2) ACROSTIC 8) SHAPE OF YOUR THOUGHTS An acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line, when Find a safe space, could be your home, your yard, a park, or a put in a column next to each other, spells out a word in their own baseball field. Start walking and every time a new thought comes right. Take your name and create two different acrostic poems— to you, change directions. Observe: Where did you end up at the one for who you are now and one for who you want to become. end of your walk? Can you draw the path you just took? What kind 3) FINGERPRINTS of shape did you just make? Is it full of rounded curves or sharp twists and turns. As an extra bonus, try this activity on multiple Color your thumb with a washable marker, or stamp your thumb days and see how the shape of your thoughts change from day to on an inkpad, and press it to a piece of paper to make your own day. thumbprint. Observe the unique lines of your print and journal about what you learn about yourself in the process. Re-write your 9) PEACEFUL PLACE journal entry in a shape that mirrors your fingerprint. What does "peace" mean to you? Think about the most peaceful place you can imagine. What colors and images do you see? What 4) MEDITATION do you hear? Smell? Feel? Where are you? Is anyone with you? Play some music and dance like no one is watching. Play some What time of day is it? What is the weather? Draw, write or music and draw without stopping. Experiment with different kinds imagine this place. Close your eyes and travel to this peaceful of music. How does different music invite you to dance or draw in place in your imagination. It is there for you whenever you need it. different ways? What happens if you dance and then draw to the same piece of music? 10) DAILY EMOTIONS What are you feeling right now? How did you recognize that 5) TAKE AN INNER JOURNEY emotion? Do you act differently when you are happy, excited, Journal your hopes, dreams and wonders: If you could go mad, angry or sad? Create a list of emotions that you feel on a anywhere in the world, where would you go and who would you daily basis. Is there a color that exemplifies each emotion to invite to join you for the journey? What do you hope to learn about you? Can you draw an image of that emotion with that color? yourself along the way? How can you shift from blue to yellow? Or from green to pink? Or vice versa? Having trouble recognizing emotions? Visit our 6) WABI-SABI website for a helpful resource. Wabi-sabi comes from Japanese culture and is the view or idea that imperfections in nature are beautiful. Using your journal, Scan the QR Code to capture one thing each day that is wabi-sabi--something in your discover more! day that did not go as expected. Draw, write or imagine a story of how this imperfection came to be. How can you transform it into something beautiful? SUMMER 2021 3 5 Imaginative Wanderings 11) A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN OBJECT 17) THE GIFT OF KINDNESS Find an object in your house that seems to have a life of its own. We could all use a little cheering up some time! Think of Write a description of a journey that it might go on over the course someone in your life and imagine yourself in their shoes. What of a single day. Might you go on an adventure with it? For does a day in their life look like? And what is one thing that you inspiration visit our website to watch The Red Balloon, a short film could do to make their day a little easier or bring them some joy? by Albert Lamorisse. Perhaps it is completing a household chore, fixing them a snack, or making them a card. What you choose will all depend on what 12) IMAGINARY WORLDS you learn from your imaginative journey in their shoes. Read a book that takes you to an imaginary world or imagine one of your own. Create a map of the fantasyland complete with a key, 18) METAPHOR labels and a compass rose. Check out The Once Upon a Time Map Pick a category: plants, animals, insects, household appliances, Book by B. G. Hennesy and Peter Joyce. modes of transportation, clothing etc. Now think about how you are feeling today. What item from your chosen category best 13) WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS expresses what you are experiencing? Imagine you are that item Read the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein. and describe yourself. Here is an example of how to express two Using chalk, create an artistic representation of what you imagine very different kinds of feelings within the same category: A) to be there at the end of the sidewalk. “Today, I am a bright yellow wild flower, dancing in the breeze” Versus B) “Today, I am a dried up weed, shaking in the cracked 14) ONE-WORD STORIES soil and waiting for it to rain.” Call a friend or family member you haven’t talked to in a while and work together to tell an original story, one word at a time! One 19) JOURNEY THROUGH THE YEAR person starts by saying a word that would start a story. The next Create a time capsule of this year and find a spot to hide it. person adds on with another word, and you go back and forth until Journal about all the ways future generations might interpret you’ve created a complete story! See where your imagination your time capsule upon discovering it. Think like a historian or an leads you on this collaborative storytelling journey. archaeologist of the future. 15) THIS IS A ______________ 20) JOURNEY OF AN IDEA Take an everyday object (pencil, cardboard tube, wooden spoon), Inspired by What Do You Do With An Idea by Kobi Yamada, write hold it out and say “This is a spoon, but it could also be______.” down an idea that you have and draw what it might look like. Fill in the blank with anything else the object could be (a wand, a Imagine all the journeys you might go on with your idea. How mustache, a 40-foot dinosaur) then use the object in this new might you change the world with your idea? way. You can play this alone or with other people. How many ways can your imagination transform these objects? 16) I'M GOING ON A TRIP Think of somewhere you’d like to go! It can be a real or imaginary place.

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