Art Prompts
- Use bubble wrap
- Use water color paints
- draw oil pastel lines and paint in between them with acrylics
- choose your paint with your eyes closed.
- paint with crumpled tissue paper
- Drag paint across the page w/ a credit card or cardboard, dry then sand
- apply tape randomly to the page
- Use stencils
- Use brayer with paint
- Put string or elastic bands on a brayer or toilet paper roll and paint
- Journal in a circle
- apply gesso and then remove some of the gesso
- random paint splatters
- Uuse dimensionals on page
- Apply charcoal
- Apply cardboard
- Collage letters
- Use any of your ephemera
- Use a mask
- Use rubberstamps
- Draw black wavy lines for journalling
- Use a pallet knife
- Scratch surface with stylus
- Dip end of toilet paper roll in paint and paint circles on the page
- Line Walk- Draw a line down the center of the paper and doodle, all lines and shapes must be connected. Then create images with paint out of your doodles..
- Use magazine images and alter them
- Paint the page in your favorite color(s) then list all the things you can think of that are that color(s)
- Use Crackle
- emboss your page
- use metal
- use alcohol inks
- use an envelope
Journaling Prompts
- Things from or seen in your yard/neighborhood
- Things you currently are listening to , drinking, eating, wearing, feeling, weather, wanting, needing, thinking, enjoying
- Guilty pleasures
- Favorite candy
- Favorite song lyrics
- Put each day of the week on the page and write 'today I laughed at' for each day
- Write about a recent dream.
- What seemed unusual to you today?
- Write about memories of an old friend you lost touch with
- What actor/actress would you hire to play you in a movie and what would your theme song be? & why?
- What did you eat as a child that you will not eat now, or what do you eat now that you wouldn't as a child?
- Who is the one relative you miss the most?
- Talk about your first kiss
- Where would you travel if you could go anywhere?
- Write a letter to your younger self or to your future self.
- Would you be a different person today if your childhood was different? How would you be different and why?
- If you could change one thing about your spouse/lover what would it be?
- What was your first pet?
- List all of the cars you've owned.
- List all of the places you've worked.
- List all of the places you've lived.
- What did you want to be when you grew up?
- If you had to sacrifice one of your senses which would it be?
- Have you ever encountered a ghost?
- Where is the first place you went when you got your drivers license?
- Describe your favorite memory of an amusement park, or fair.
- Describe your favorite sound.
- What is your favorite memory of high school?
- What is your worst memory of high school?
- Talk about your graduation.
- Which friend has the greatest impact in your life and why?
- What is your favorite season?
- Tell a secret.
- Talk about something you struggle with.
- What would you do if you won the lottery?
- Whats the best and worst thing that happened to you this week?
- What is your favorite book at the moment, and what is it that you like about it most?
- List your favorite tv shows.
- What do you wish to accomplish by years end?
- List your fears
- What is your least favorite chore, and why?
- List your pet peeves
- Talk about your first job
- Have you ever swallowed anything strange?
- Least favorite foods
- Favorite odd foods
- Tell a joke
- List your favorite things w/ each letter of the alphabet
- List your celebrity guy and gal crushes
- Share a poem
- What bugs you?
- What is your favorite trait of yourself?
- Nobody knows that you...
- Do you have reoccuring dreams? What are they about?
- Where were you on 9/11? Where were you when you heard about Bin Laden?
- 10 foods you have never eaten but would like to try.
- 10 foods that you would NEVER eat
- Write a letter to someone you need to forgive.
- List your top favorite songs right now.
- Share the lyrics to a current song that you can not stand.
- Make a list of the 5 changes you think you have made in the last five years.
- what things do you expect in a good friend
- What did you do BEFORE we had the internet?
- What superpower would you choose to have?
- A continuous bucket list
- 10 unforgettable moments in your life
- 10 things you really like about yourself
- what book are you reading right now? what is it about?
- List of most commonly used words
- Name 5 things in your refrigerator
- 5 adjectives to describe yourself
- List some of your favorite smells
- What monopoly figure do you use?
- words you hate, words you love
- celebrities you are sick of or dislike
- What do you like on your pizza?
- What do you love to buy, what do you hate to buy?
- Whats the worst thing you have ever done to your hair?
- Talk about an embarrassing moment.
- What gives you the creeps?
- Can you play an instrument?
- What are your nicknames? (How did you get them, & from who?)
- List your bad habits...
- Talk about growing up with your siblings, share a favorite memory.
- Tell about your favorite childhood christmas
- List your halloween costumes as a child, tell about them...
- Take the last line of your favorite poem, and make it the first line of your own poem.
- List the names of 5-10 relatives/friends and write a small profile about each of them.
- Mad Libs :)
- Share a recipe & how it turned out when you made it :)
- That was then, this is now (pics growing up, and pics now)
2 comments:
Wow!!! That's one LONG list but it's good to be INSPIRED! Thank you for sharing. IF I come up with any that you don't have - I'll be sure to let ya know! :)
Wooooowwww! Now it's a REALLY LONG LIST! :) Great ideas.
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