Creative Idea of the Day - 2024 07


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Every day on my Idealog account on Bluesky - except for the days I forget - I share a quick creative idea and archive the month's list here on the last day.

  1. Transform an everyday scene into an extraordinary one.
  2. Plan, do, document, and maybe share a solo adventure or activity.
  3. Decorate plain cardboard/shoe boxes for storage, decor, or gift-giving by covering them with magazine pages.
  4. Start a new hobby.
  5. Create a 30-day challenge for yourself (or your friends and yourself!) for art, songs, music, self-care, cooking, food, culture, fitness, language, writing, photography, local adventure, travel, or something else. Blog, journal, share the list.
  6. Pick a line from a poem or song you like and use it as the jumping off point for a poem of your own.
  7. Create a colour wheel where each colour represents a different emotion. Use them to express and track your emotions each day through drawings, swatches, images, or written descriptions.
  8. Create a list of activities or places to visit in your town that are free to do or enter. Try them out. Share the list and your adventures.
  9. Add a bizarre or quirky item to your apocalist/bucket list.
  10. Work with a medium that is subtractive, like an eraser or bleach. If using a medium like bleach, you can use cotton swabs to draw with.
  11. When doing reviews/logs/reading challenges and journals of books/movies/music, instead of just writing the name of the media, you could print out the covers on small stickers and place them on the appropriate pages in your journal.
  12. Transform complex data/data sets into art pieces. Use charts, graphs, or other visual representations as a basis for your work, or find another way to translate the data into a visual form.
  13. Choose a random group of words and develop a travel challenge where you create hypothetical travel itineraries - or real ones - routes incorporating destinations, or experiences related to each word.
  14. Think of things you know how to do and write out instructions to teach others how to do them.
  15. Write a piece that has no verbs.
  16. Set a small challenge for yourself each day, like learning a new word in English or another language, perform a random act of kindness, or something else. It doesn’t have to be the same thing. Set yourself the goal of trying something different each day.
  17. Combine travel writing with geocaching, documenting places visited, hidden and found treasures encountered, and recording it in whatever way you see fit.
  18. Think of a favourite quotation, lyric, or saying and find a way to illustrate it. Collage, drawings, still images from cartoons or films, etc.
  19. Explore untranslatable words from different languages that encapsulate feelings or experiences that don't have direct English equivalents
  20. Go for a walk with a bag or box and fill it with objects you find - rocks, lost earrings, pop can tabs, flowers, coins, other ephemera, etc. Take pics to put in the box too. Use the items to create a collage, sculpture, or shadow box.
  21. Create a tiny garden using small plants, moss, stones, miniatures, toys, glass bottles and beads, and creative landscaping. You could also add LED lights. This would work in a planter box too, for those without the space for a garden.
  22. Typeractive! Using a non-functional typewriter, transform it into an art piece by painting it, adding decoupage, add ephemera, redecorate the keys, or use it as a base for a mixed media assemblage.
  23. Listen to a new podcast or TED talk each day/week. I’m so very guilty of forgetting these things exist, and yet there’s such a richness of them. Great fodder for conversation, writing, a media “book” club, other projects, or just for you.
  24. Draw a landscape using only dots.
  25. Take a photo of something that makes you happy.
  26. Never been in there before? Go in there.
  27. (missed)
  28. Write about your favourite solo activities or hobbies.
  29. Make a cartoon inspired by something you read - news, human interest, educational, a book, a sign, a pamphlet, etc.
  30. Draw a still life using only shades of one colour.
  31. Pick a favourite art supply and show others how you use it.

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