There are many traditions to celebrate this day around the world. Many people celebrate at midnight tonight and some do not even eat turkey. Some go to church in roller skates. Yes, you read that right.  Others burn goats. A favourite of mine is La Befana in Italy. She got lost, could not find Jesus and is still looking! How creative can we be to create our very own DS106 tradition for December 24th? Explain the tradition in the Flickr notes when you upload. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1081

120 artists offer their top ten films Create your top 10 list, share it in a poster. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1073

Apparently this Poe-Ka (get it?) dot tote is being sold for $12.60. Save some money design your own! Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1071

The British Museum ran a workshop recently on Magical Mosaic Masks. These are based on scary Aztec gods. Make your own analogue or digital! If you need an online mosaic art maker, Google always obliges. Or use a favourite app. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1070

As children we often love celebrations and holidays! Make a picture of you as a child during your favourite holiday or celebration. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1067

Lewis and Jason do this every wednesday. Shall we join them just for today? Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1057

Q: What do you do when the bell rings at 3:30 and you just need a creative, inspirational kick in the pants? A: Sketchquote Amy “will search for them in the evening Hawaii time (when all the civilized people are heading to bed) and repost on the Three Thirty Sketchnote Tumblr blog.” Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it  #threethirtysketchquote  dailycreate and tdc1049

The awesome Noun Project are doing a collaborative Emoji project. May be making 20 of your own emoji for a daily create is a little ambitious. The brief requires that your 20 creations include: kiss, love, embarassed, wink, and smile. So, for today’s daily create you only need create 5 emoji. From the brief: “A character based set uses the same character throughout the set, the only modifier is the emotion the character is expressing. A theme based set is based on a broader theme where each emoji varies in both design and emotion.” Of course if you are inspired after creating just 5 you might go for the full set of 20 and submit it to the Noun Project for everyone to enjoy forever. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1044

If you owned a country, what would your flag look like? Draw a flag for The Country of Me. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1038

Draw yourself in the middle, listen, draw what you hear. If you want more instruction the interwebz obliges. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1034

Draw a washing line… Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1026

Grab a thirty circle template. Grab a pencil, pen, crayon, marker, real or digital and the 30 circles template. Fill as many of the 30 circles as you can. The goal is quantity, not quality. Patterns, doodles, shapes, animals, plants, words, and objects are all fair game, as are drawings that incorporate more than one circle. Adapted from a group activity developed by Bob McKim and made popular by this TED talk Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1020

Aart van der Neer did this painting. Let’s get ready for winter or to say goodbye to winter depending on where in the world your are! Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1019

You can watch Picasso painting with light or find an app to do it. Wikepedia can direct your googling! I liked this tutorial when I was finding out what the heck light painting was.   Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1018

Have a look at others for inspiration if you need to. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1007

A 2 minute doodle about your feelings! For inspiration go to I feel like a half-baked cookie and say ‘Awww….’ HT @drGarcia for spotting this one. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1001

Take a picture of you and some tracing paper. Trace your features. You may trace another persons’s features on the same paper. Make it funny or make it beautiful. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc999

With DS106 in mind, what might your Empathy Map look like?     Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc998

The original idea is to use packaging twine on a paper which you have first prepared with glue. It may be easier to lay the thread first and then glue it. HT Stefanie Jeske for submission.   Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc994

@noiseprofessor @nikkapotamus I agree, Y U NO DRAW JIM GROOM? — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) September 5, 2014 Draw your Professor now! Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc992  

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Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project collects the ways people envision the internet and their place in it (see the ones he has collected so far): The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders. And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web is an immense ghost land of disembodied places. Who knows if you are even there, there. Yet everyday we navigate through this ethereal realm for hours on end and return alive. We must have some map in our head. I’ve become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I’ve been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That’s all. Download the template PDF, email your drawing to Kelly. Also upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc970

The shape of stories has been done as curves, mountains, what about showing the plot of a story, novel, tv show as a subway, highway, or road map? See the example of Alice in Wonderland as subway map (brainpickings) Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc969

Draw an object only using shapes of the number 9. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc964

Draw something interesting using only shades of blue. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc954

Go back to your first days of school; draw a map of the epic journey to get there. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc932

Take a break from all your electronic chatter and enjoy the outdoors. The closer you look, the more you will see! Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc921

See examples of Amy’s work at http://my-conography.tumblr.com/ Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc917

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It’s GNA Garcia’s birthday. Design a birthday card, poster or even a 7” single cover art (for GNA’s band based on recordings from TDC900) that celebrates her awesomeness. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc901 Not sure why we think she’s so awesome? Check out GNA’s Twitter stream, Notes to self Tumblr and Refractions blog to learn more about GNA.

Having power to change the disposition of the mind. When life throws unexpected obstacles in front of you, having an adaptive, flexanimous mindset helps you leap over the hurdles and keep going. — one of the 18 Delightful English Words You Never Learned in School. HT @AmyBurvall. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc897

The Burgerons do enjoy their trailer. I do prefer a stable. Where would you live if money and all that was no problema? Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc894

Tells you all about it. I love this idea. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc874

Hand draw a map between your home and your workplace or a map of your workplace, or draw a map of a small, local place you remember vividly from childhood such as your neighborhood, secret fort or bedroom. See http://www.handmaps.org/ for more ideas Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc863

This Daily Create was made by Ben. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc846

NASA’s Space Colony Art from the 1970s includes artists ideas for possible future living quarters in space. Choose one, and add a greeting or message appropriate for a post card from said facility (and yes, you can be more creative then “Wish You Were Here”). Images are not copyrighted, but as requested please credit photos to NASA Ames Research Center. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc836

Hazard symbols for chemicals are changing, and vary from country to country. Design a suitable hazard symbol for ds106. For bonus credit, add it to a suitable photograph. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc833

Go to the Random Sentence Generator and find/create/draw an image to go along with the 3rd one you generate. Overlay the sentence into the graphic. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc829

Anyone can go to a web site and crank out a “Keep Calm and ______” poster. Take it to the next level, what’s the opposite? What might it say? Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc810

High pressure, low pressure, areas of increasing activity are presented as colored regions on weather maps, or heat maps. Come up with something interesting to represent as a map. Here is one I made to represent the effect of SXSW on the hipness map of the US Hopster Vortex Forecast, Week of March 7: High Pressure over Austin, drops in LA, SF, NYC, SEA. Hipless elsewhere pic.twitter.com/jODzavVh3j — Alan Levine (@cogdog) March 7, 2014 Make your own map; if you wish, you can use a template PSD from my lame effort, or a JPEG version. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc798

Gab paints a watercolour blob and uploads it to her Gab Collab tumblr blog. Go grab a blob, download it, doodle on it, then submit it to her site and to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc795

Draw a city skyline at night with skyscraper silhouettes and lit-up windows. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc776

Draw a household object using the hand you don’t normally draw with. Then draw it again with your writing hand, but without taking the pen off the paper. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc774

If you had to map your mind, how it works, what regions would it include? How would their geography represent who you are? For some ideas, see Where You Are: Cartography as Wayfinding for the Soul (Brain Pickings) “Mapping the human experience based on disposition rather than position.” Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc771

The #ds106 Athletic Club is looking to formalize a sportswear line and we need a logo. Please design a nice looking logo for the team. Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc761

Taking a quiz might help you… Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc744

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Because Jess dreams about Daily Creates! Off to get some shuteye but will also be mulling over my next Daily Create… maybe it will come to me in a dream… #dreamon #ds106 — jesstheobscure (@Jess_TheObscure) December 10, 2013 Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc706

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