- Complete an online tutorial you've bookmarked for later
- Stick googly eyes on inanimate objects
- Mix patterns that people say “clash”
- Make a list longer than you think you can finish
- Share your life and findings via snail mail and the internet
- Decorate cupcakes in an awesome way
- Try to have a $0 shopping trip due to coupons, sales, etc.
- Collect something very specific
- Wear a mask, crown (or other headwear) that you made all day
- Clear off your entire workspace and reorganize (don't put anything back in the same spot)
- Carry a notebook and pen with you everywhere you go
- Fill an entire photo album with anything but photographs
- Try to change your handwriting for the length of an entire letter
- Utilize free and found materials
- Knit something your cat can wear
- Map out a descriptive music video for any song
- Make a list of things you're tolerating and then fix them
- Use paint chips for anything except what they're intended for
- Have a dress up in costume evening
- Wear only black clothing (down to the underwear!) and allow yourself one colored accessory
- Use Polaroids or other forms of instant film
- Melt crayons
- Go somewhere outside specifically to play the cloud game
- Write with different color inks
- Create your own mandala
- Take an illusion type picture
- Decorate for every holiday
- Add magnetic strips to your make up or other supplies for easy storage/access
- Leave a happy note or quote in the copy machine at work
- Leave twinkle/Christmas lights up all year round
- Use ribbon as a belt (but only if your pants are definitely going to stay up!)
- Change the lyrics to a song that you are singing to your pet (about your pet)
- Don't stay seated for too long
- Design your own flag
- Mail an object not in an envelope or package (as is)
- Stay up past your bed time (to keep or start working)
- Recreate a photo that you think is beautiful
- Make up a story about people you see walking on the street
- Do something anyway (even when you don't have all the supplies)
- Choreograph a dance
- Make your voicemail something other than “leave me a message and I'll call you back”
- Journal or write something somewhere every day
- Make a paper chain to count down to an upcoming event or occasion
- Have an art picnic
- Select one of the five senses and document everything you experience with that sense for one day
- Listen to music instead of watching TV
- Decorate a pair of cheap/plain shoes with something wonderful and tacky
- Take on an entirely new persona for an evening out (bonus points for an accent)
- Decide what you would want to be in a textbook for and then go make sure it happens
- Make a mass handmade gift to give everyone for Christmas or some other holiday (personalize each one)
- Create a theme for you to follow for a day or a whole week (clothing, speech, activities, etc.)
- Make variable and attainable goal lists
- Wrap every item of a present individually
- Teach someone something (or make your own tutorial)
- Celebrate weird and unusual holidays
- Write out the alphabet and then the first words that comes to your mind for each letter
- Make a mix CD for someone based on their musical interests and include a playlist and a handmade jewel case
- Incorporate a daily quote into your routine
- Have an unbirthday party for someone
- Install some guerilla art for everyone to enjoy
- If given the option, choose color
- Do the Macarena to a song you don't know how to dance to
- Execute an elaborate Random Act of Kindness (Amélie style)
- Spend a day focusing on the similarities between things, people, etc.
- Use colored staples from here on out
- Decorate the inside of your car
- Pull an all nighter
- Document the moon for an entire lunar cycle
- Take a picture of the same spot every day at the same time
- Go a whole day without communicative media and/or technology
- Build a fort to work (or play) in
- Communicate with someone who you only text with by only images (no words/text)
- Use unique lighting (twinkle lights, color filters, etc.)
- Decide what should be on a stamp – then make your own artistamps
- Incorporate every color of the rainbow into your outfit
- Journal for ten minutes straight (never stop writing)
- Make your own Halloween costume
- Write thank you cards for your friends, family, or coworkers (not for gifts, for anything else)
- Have a yard sale where you sell handmade things not (just) junk
- Plan a surprise for someone
- Bedazzle something
- Measure something really large with something that's not a ruler or other traditional form of measurement
- Carve your own rubber stamp
- Set an alarm on your phone (or other device) to remind you to celebrate the year anniversary of something special that happened today
- Pretend you're a mermaid for a day
- Add food coloring to your meal
- Leave nice/anonymous notes for strangers
- Make a mural or scene with sidewalk chalk
- Frequently change your surroundings
- Decorate mirrors with dry erase markers
- Wear fancy hair accessories on ordinary days
- Make paper snowflakes out of colored paper
- Take a road trip somewhere within 90 minutes, but to somewhere you've never been before
- Create the boundaries of where your ideal state would be on a map, name it, and write down what the state would offer and be called
- Create an outdoor natural artwork (using flowers, a rock garden, collection, etc.)
- Make your own sketch design (crayons, black paint, scratching)
- Go to a party supply store when you have no intention of throwing a party
- Document your week in paper scraps
- Have a meet up with other people who want to be creative and create a group project or just brainstorm
- Explore through a park, forest, or other area of nature
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