Stay Creative with Stone Soup

Our Weekly Creativity prompts challenge you to make a piece of writing (a poem, a journal entry, a story outline, a review) or art, or music, or a spoken word recording, or other piece of creative work. All the prompts we have written are brought together on this page – see below. The first prompt of the month is also a Flash Contest!

You can find more writing and art activities on our Activities pages.

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Creativity Prompts

Write a story designed to evoke an emotion. Maybe it’s a feel-good story, or a calming one ...
Take a character from one of your favorite books, TV shows or movies, and pretend that they have a social media account. Write a few posts that they might share. Would they let their followers know what is going on in their lives? Or be secretive and vague in their ...
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Write a short story that begins and ends with the same sentence ...
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Imagine that you are a scientist who discovers a new animal species or plant. Draw or paint a picture that details your discovery. Is it related to any known species, or is it something totally new? If you want to, you can even give it a name ...
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Pick a historical figure and write a fictional story around a moment in their life. It can be a decisive moment of history, or it can be something mundane ...
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Write a science fiction story about a character who lives one hundred years in the future ...
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Write a poem in which each stanza sums up a month of this year ...
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Write a detailed description or character sketch of a family member or someone you know. How would you describe them to someone who didn’t know them? What details are important to include to properly capture them in writing? ...
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Write in an ode in honor of something or someone. Maybe it’s your grandmother, your cat, or even just your favorite chair ...
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Create a piece of art in any style, inspired by a family tradition ...
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