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!
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Creativity Prompts
Write a list of random words. Then, use the first ten that come to mind in a poem ...
Draw your favorite meal but with different colors ...
Write about a character who has all of your bad habits and more ...
Ask ChatGPT to write a short story. It can be about whatever you’d like! Then write the sequel ...
Write a prequel to your favorite novel or picture book. For example, what happened before Goldilocks met the three bears? ...
Make a picture book based on a memory from when you were younger. You can be as creative as you’d like with this. Maybe your memory is losing your first tooth or learning to ride a bike, but you could add in dragons or a ghost! ...
Write a pitch for an invention that would solve a problem in your life ...
Get a friend to dress up as a ghost and take a silly ghost photo. Where does the ghost like to hang out? The library? The skate park? The bowling alley? ...
Make up an imaginary celebrity and write a story in which they are the main character. What are they famous for? What does their life look like out of the public eye? ...
Take a photo or draw a picture that makes the viewer look twice—something is not as it first seems ...
