Every day on my Idealog account on Bluesky - except for the days I forget - I share a quick creative idea - in addition to the more lengthy ones.

And because I like to archive things all in one place, I archive the collections here, adding the list on the last day of the month.

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May 2025

1. Create colouring pages.
2. Do something, and detail it, that starts with each of your initials.
3. Use a magnifying glass to focus on small objects or their parts - fabric textures, leaves, etc. - and draw or paint what you see.
4. Cut a paragraph of text into its separate word parts and arrange/rearrange them into different groups to create poems, sentences, phrases, etc.
5. Find an online tool (if you need to) to generate some soundwaves with, and use them to create something else - fill in the wave forms with images, colours, patterns, words, or something completely different.
6. Create a map for a loved one, or yourself, that shows different important spots from their life.
7. (missed)
8. Cut the letters out of old bags, t-shirts, and other items and use those in a project.
9. Make a fun and games gift jar for someone you know - add a notebook, pens, puzzle books, games/adventures you create for them to do, project ideas, colouring pages, sudoku, mini kits, etc.
10. Create a landscape using "wrong" colours - pink air? orange sea? mauve trees?
11. Try an upcycling workshop or project.
12. Use your phone to capture at least one thing each day that pleases you in some fashion.
13. Catch a local theatre production.
14. Using 52 photos you took yourself, create your own deck of cards.
15. Collect random found objects into a mystery bag that you gift to someone else to create something with.
16. Create some natural jewellery from leaves, flowers, stems, and other flora.
17. Take a bird's eye photo of a location and create a game board with it.
18. Arrange the titles of your favourite songs into a poem.
19. Make a piece of jewellery out of something that isn't jewellery, or make jewellery into things that aren't jewellery.
20. Do a doodle a day and turn them into a grid at the end of the month.
21. Create a landscape using any media you like using only different shades of one colour.
22. Make your own photo-based storybook with photos you take yourself. Add text, or not.
23. Create playlists for your cleaning mood, your reading mood, your relaxing mood, or any mood.
24. Put together a story from the first (and/or last) lines of your favourite books and stories.
25. Make a sticky-note flipbook of something simple.
26. Put together a piece of wearable art from fabric scraps, yarn, pieces of metal, etc.
27. Make a zine or mini magazine.
28. Decorate the sidewalk in front of your home with some sidewalk chalk art or a cheering phrase.
29. Cross something off your apocalist by doing it.
30. Decorate a rock and put it somewhere for someone to find.
31. Learn one of the many ways to marble paper.