Weekly Challenges

Using the provided image, recreate your own version of the orchid.

Do you go skiing or snowboarding? Write about how it feels to go hurtling down a snowy slope. 

Look around at the objects surrounding you. If there were thought bubbles coming out of them, what might they be thinking? Write a dialogue of these objects speaking to each other. 

Create a painting or photograph of one fish or a school of fish. You can focus on one type of fish or a mixture. Realistic or fanciful. Think about detail, color, and shape in this appreciation of fish.

Create your own fairytale. Whose perspective is it told from? What magical creatures might be in your story? What is the climax? How does it end? 

Write about your favorite song or piece. How does it make you feel? What do you see in your head when you listen to it? What exactly makes that song or piece your favorite? (Challenge created by nimbostratus, YWP)

A mixture is created by adding multiple different ingredients together to make one beautiful, unified thing. In prose or poetry, write about a mixture.

If you were to create your own country, what would it look like? Draw a map of it. Is it just humans, or are there magical/mythical beings as well?

Is the snow starting to melt? Photograph and document the changes you can see in nature, capturing spring’s arrival at its earliest. 

Using your preferred medium, create an image of a yellow flower with at least one other element, such as a red ladybug, a green grasshopper, a blue dragonfly, or ...?

Write about the view from your window. What do you see every day? Is it always the same, or is there ever something different?

Write a story about someone who has just discovered that they won the lottery. What will they do with their winnings?