creativity
— Now that people are staying indoors because of strict quarantining, animals all around the world are beginning to wander out of their homes and into the world of humans, from...
— Look to your immediate left or right and draw what you see using an art technique you’ve never used before. Could be stippling, cross-hatching, sgraffito, cross counter, etc. Get creative!
— What is your favorite superpower? Now imagine everyone in the world has that one power. What would happen? Would we work together to regulate the usage of the superpower, or...
— An update from our eleventh Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all...
— Put some objects in front of a sunny window and draw the shadows they make (if it’s not a sunny day, put your objects in front of a wall and...
— If you could live in any kind of habitation, with everything exactly the way you wanted it, what would it be like? Where would it be? Maybe it’s a cave,...
— Write a detailed character profile of a new main character for a story. Ask yourself as many questions as you can about your character, and really get to know them....
— Make a “blind contour” self portrait. A blind contour is a drawing where you do not look at the paper while you are drawing, and once you have put your...
— Who is telling the story? Try playing around with point of view. Write an outline for a short scene with two characters in conflict (it doesn’t have to be too...
— What if a misplaced letter in a word changes everything? A story about someone who wins a million dollars would be very different if they actually won a million collars;...