Too Loud! (lunch room) 
Too Mean! (playground)
Too Messy! (bathroom) 
   
What if kindness was
something that’s contagious?
(outrageous)
Activating change
just from your example
(it’s possible)
A simple kind act
spreading from someone courageous
(audacious)
​
So they become safe,
caring, and responsible

Believe in yourself
​because we
believe in you

It’s not hard
to do the right thing
so do the Dryden Dos

Use kind words

Start listening

Make good choices

You can do it
Just Dryden Do It!

Undo, undo
push a button
and it's all better for you
Undo, Undo,
just a click and it’s
fixed (snap) for you

Undo, Undo,
push a button
and it’s all better for you.
Undo, Undo,
just a click and it’s
​fixed (snap) for you.

I'm the White Spot Inspector
and I'm happy to say
I'm here to inspect your artwork today

He's the White Spot Inspector
He finds all the problems
He makes them better for you!
(2xs)

Remove me from your pocket and 
set me down
Point me to your artwork
and I'll take a look around

He's the White Spot Inspector
He finds all the problems
He makes them better for you! 
(2xs)

Itsy bitsy white spots may be hard to see
but, I'm so itsy bitsy that it's easy for me

Continued

He's the White Spot Inspector
He finds all the problems
He makes them better for you!
(3xs)

Mrs. Fingerstad
I don't want to make you made
But we can't get a hold
of the meaning when we're just told
We need to visualize
read the world with our eyes
I'm getting lost
I can't find my way
getting out of hand
and I just have to say
Don't just talk to the hand

When you talk to the hand
it may not understand
your thoughts are out of reach
when all you use are words to teach
Can't get a grasp on things
disconnected to our imaginings
Help us see your point
show us what you mean
don't get out of joint
it's just what we need
That's how you talk to a hand

With this show of hands
I see that visuals help you understand
That's just fine with me
'cuz it's teaching you visual literacy
I'll illustrate my point
demonstrate the skills
map out the plans
until your mind is filled
that's how I'll talk to my hands

Continued

When you talk to the hand
it may not understand
your thoughts are out of reach
when all you use are words to teach
Can't get a grasp on things
disconnected to our imaginings
Help us see your point
show us what you mean
don't get out of joint
it's just what we need
That's how you talk to a hand

High fives everyone!


View the behind the scenes video to see how this movie was made. (Hint: shadows)

Nothing makes ya more blue
than a clogged up useless glue
love to be indispensably 
helpful to you

nothing makes me more mad
than recalling the worst day I ever had

I was squeezed so hard that I gushed
all over some artwork 
the memory still makes me blush
I ruined all their hard work

take some advice from your glue
a little drop will do
to keep me dispensable for you!

Nothing can be worse
than the rushing student curse
they never can remember 
the one thing I want first
​
Nothing makes me more sick
than when my cap gets so plugged that it sticks

Continued

spin my cap once around 
then wipe my tip clean
'cuz I would love to stick around
and do some more gluing

take some advice from your glue
a little drop will do
to keep me dispensable 
for you!

Dip your tip
do not drip
hold your brush
with a
pencil grip

Stay neat 
in your seat
good artwork
can't be beat

Push up your sleeves
grab a smock 
and sit
show me 
that your are
MONA-ficient
that's great
2, 4, 6, 8
Let's Create!

Movement—?
this is a two dimensional piece of paper
how am I going to show movement?

well, Movement is a principal of design
you know you do it all the time

It’s not hard to show in your art
Let us tell you where to start

(sing)
Draw lines on an angle
freeze frame an action pose
force the eye to travel

What that might look like is…
​
​(sing)
add a dash or a dot
to show something moves an awful lot
scatter a motif in different spots
put movement in your plan and in your plot
(2x)

(Continued)
(sing)
Draw lines on an angle
freeze frame an action pose
force the eye to travel

or how about this
just attach some parts that
actually
Move

(verse one)
Don't crush my dreams
They fall apart when I fill with seams
I want to be displayed
The original way that I was made
It may be cute when you
wrinkle your nose
But it's not cute to be
a portrait full of folds

(chorus)
Don't crush my dreams 4xs

(verse two)
I hope one day to hang in a gallery
But nobody frames
Artwork full of stains
Your hands they smear me
Your fingers they smudge
Why come so near me
Don't you know I can't budge

(bridge)
What's a rip? What's a tear?
Do I matter to you when you
need to get somewhere?

(Continued)
(chorus)
Don't crush my dreams 4xs

Keep me nice for always
Show respect in the hallways
And by every means
Do not crush my dreams
Don't crush my dreams
Don't crush my dreams

(speaking)
Look at where you’re going!
​Watch what you’re doing to me!​