Creative Idea of the Day - 2025 02


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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. Design a treasure map that leads someone to a hidden surprise (a small gift or note).
  2. Make a wishlist.
  3. Create a list of things to share, make one, and share it.
  4. Carve some intricate designs into the pages of an old/damaged book, or do some folding art with it.
  5. Try a free online class or tutorial on something you've never done before.
  6. Create an audio collage or soundscape of ambient sounds of places you visit.
  7. Use an old or damaged map as a cover for a journal, scrapbook, photo album, or something else.
  8. Collaborate with friends or other loved ones to create a collage.
  9. Invite friends over for a book swap. Each person could leave a note in the book at their favourite part.
  10. Compile a learn list of things you want to learn - facts, skills, crafts, words, languages. Anything you like. Start learning one.
  11. What makes you laugh?
  12. Add surreal and unexpected elements to photographs, either when you take the image, or on it when you print it.
  13. Build a mobile with found objects, old jewellery, mismatched cutlery, etc.
  14. Create a decorative family tree (or friend circle) and frame it as a gift for a loved one.
  15. What are your favourite wastes of time, good and bad? Waste some time on one, or three.
  16. Get a large enough format scrapbook shaped to suit your tastes, and design your own book covers - either for books you might make yourself, books that don't even exist, or redesigns of book covers that do.
  17. Take a photo of something beautiful and send it to someone who would appreciate it.
  18. Invent a game. Teach it to someone.
  19. Find some obscure or obsolete words and make them new again.
  20. Create a collage or other visual art piece from a newspaper headline that caught your eye.
  21. What's your favourite weird fact? For me, it's that water doesn't move around the earth, the earth moves under the water.
  22. Make a list of ways to make a commute more enjoyable.
  23. Give quilling or paper filigree work a try, or invent your own paper art craft.
  24. Think about your favourite flowers and try to create them in fabric, paint, paper, with buttons, with whatever you like, in whatever style suits your fancy.
  25. Find a way to play with clay.
  26. How far would you go, and what would you go that far for?
  27. Make a list of “I prefer - this to that”. Like: I prefer black ink pens to blue, oranges to apples, punk to metal.
  28. Create a playlist based on your preference lists from yesterday. Share it, if you like.

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