• Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the sidewalk. • Write a letter to yourself in the future. • Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create (new pen, a teacup, a journal). Use it everyday. • Draw your dinner. • Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal. • Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week, collect things you find in the street. • Expose yourself to a new artist (go to a gallery or in a book). Describe what moves you about it. • Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them. • Spend a day drawing only red things. • Draw your bike. • Make a list of everything you buy in the next week. • Make a map of everywhere you went in one day. • Draw a map of the creases on your hand (knuckles, palm). • Trace your footsteps with chalk. • Record an overheard conversation (in a notebook, I presume?). • Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live. • Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favourite colours. • Draw your favourite tree. • ✔ Take 15 minutes to eat an orange. (4/13) • Write a haiku. • Hang upside down for five minutes. • Hang found objects from tree branches. • Make directions for a puppet. • Create a collage from things you find in nature. • Read a book in one day. • Illustrate your grocery list. • Read a story out loud to a friend. • Write a letter to someone you admire. • Study the face of someone you do not like. • Play with your food. • Create a museum of very small things. • List the smells in your neighbourhood. • List 100 uses for a tin can. • Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Colour them in. • Give away something you love. • Choose an object. Draw the side you can’t see. • List all of the places you’ve ever lived. • Describe your favourite room in detail. • Write about your relationship with your washing machine. • Draw all of things in your purse/bag. • Make a mini-book on the theme ‘my grocery list’. • Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits. • Recall your favourite childhood game. • Put postcards you respond to on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors so you can see them everyday. • Draw the same object every day for a week. • Write in your journal using a different medium (Brush and ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, markers). • Draw the individual items of your favourite outfit. • Make a useful item using only paper and tape. • Research a celebration ritual from another culture. • Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes and a pen. • Draw a map of your favourite sitting spots in your town/city (photocopy it and give it to someone you like). • Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hour. • Using a grid, collect various textures from magazines and play them off of each other. • Cut out all Media for one day. Write about the effects. • Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces. • Draw your garbage. • Do a morning collage. • List your ten most important things (not including animals or people). • List ten things you would like to do everyday. • Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal. • Transform some garbage. • Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters. • Collect some flat things in nature (flowers, leaves). Glue or tape them into your journal. • Physically alter a page (ie. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc). • Find several colour combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them. • Experiment with simple print making (ie. monoprint, photocopy, stamping, potato printing, lino, eraser). • Record descriptions or definitions of words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries. • Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing). • What were you thinking just now? write it down. • Do nothing. • Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list. • Create an image using dots. • Do 3 drawings at different speeds. • Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel. • Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life. • Draw the sun. • Create instructions for a simple everyday task. • Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.) • Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it. • Write a letter using an unconventional medium. • Draw one object for twenty minutes. • Combine two activities that have not been combined before. • Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.) • Write a list of all the things you do to escape. • Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results. • Write an entry in code. • Make a painting using tools from the bathroom. • Work with a medium that is subtractive. • Write about or draw some of the doors in your life. • Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it. • Write an entry about a secret. Cut it up and glue the pieces in randomly. • Devise an entry using “layers”. • Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.) • List 10 of your habits. • Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.