10 Utterly Uplifting Creative Prompts to Beat your Winter Blues
January
Creative Activities
10 Terrific prompts to assist you in thinking creatively. Phenomenal job already. You are reading this blog post!
Congratulate yourself! I commend your bravery. Seriously! You have already started and it is awesome.
JANUARY CREATIVE MOTIVATION TASKS:
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Create an acrostic poem about WINTER (acrostic means the first letter of each line spells out a word, message or the alphabet)
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Sketch something from the latest book your read / are reading
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Boil yourself some water, make a tea, sit in the quiet, take three deep breaths, do nothing but drink that tea. Don’t go on your phone, don’t turn on the TV, just sit with your warm tea. Create something from this experience (tip: sketch your mug, make hot water swirls on paper, anything!)
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Reflect on your day today or yesterday and journal about it. Visual /Written
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Get outside, notice the air, the smells, the imagery around you. When you get home create something to represent this experience.
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Make a goal to notice an intense feeling today. Assign that feeling a colour and create something in your journal that uses that colour.
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Create artist trading card about your breakfast food (or lack there of)
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Create a journal entry about a dream you had last night. If you don’t remember your dream, make up a nonsensical story. Embrace your inner 6 year old.
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Scribble in your journal. Make random marks. Go a little nuts. Colour it in.
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Draw a snowflake
HOW TO USE THE PROMPTS
🧡 Do the list in any order.
🧡 Do as many or as few as you prefer
🧡 Spend 5-30 minutes...whatever time you can spare.
🧡 Some of the creativity challenges suggest certain art supplies but use whatever you have.
MEDIUMS YOU CAN USE:
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Pencil
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Pen
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Crayons
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Pencil crayons
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Markers
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Paint
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Camera phone
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Magazines and glue
WAYS TO EXPRESS YOURSELF:
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Visual Art
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Creative writing (journaling, post-it notes, memos on your phone, ETC)
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Music (listening to or relating to)
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Voice/Singing/Poetry
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Movement
Follow on Instagram
Post photos of your creativity and mindfulness on Instagram using
#findingcreativejoy
Share on facebook
Share this BLOG POST and use the hashtag #creativeyqr to promote your passion for creativity in Regina.
COOL REWARDS
COOL REWARDS
To be entered:
1. Follow @redfoxcreativestudio on Instagram
2. Post photos of your creations on Instagram
(The mindfulness is just for you…posting might defeat the purpose.)
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Use this hashtag #findingcreativejoy OR #craftylikeafox
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Tag the photo @redfoxcreativestudio in your photo
(Note: Your Instagram profile must be public)
YOU WILL BE ENTERED TO WIN A $20.00 CREDIT AND A PRIZE PACKAGE WORTH OVER $50.00
to be used on any regular priced product over $60.00
DRAW will be made on DEC 22ND, 2020.