Weekly Challenges

Draw or paint the most beautiful garden you can imagine.

Friendship is a beautiful thing. Write a poem about what friendship means to you. (Challenge created by June, YWP)

Imagine you are your favorite animal for a day. What would you do? Write from this perspective.

Imagine a stairway that is always climbing, a never-ending staircase. Using your preferred medium, show us your never-ending staircase. 

Using your preferred medium, create an image of two or more snails engaged in something––anything. Are they at a party wearing party hats? Or going skiing? The choice is yours.

Do you write in a notebook? Write about your preferred medium to write with and why it appeals to you. 

Imagine a desert. Draw, paint, or use any other visual arts medium to make an image of this desert.

Valentine’s Day celebrates love––any kind of love. Think about all the people you love and the different kinds of love in your life. Friends, family, pets, etc. Write an ode to them to celebrate the love you all have for one another.

Shoes carry us everywhere we go, through everything we experience. Our shoes accompany us everywhere, even shaping our feet as we grow up. Write about this––maybe a short story from the shoes’ perspective or maybe it’s an ode to your shoes. 

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

Do you go skiing? Write about how it feels to go hurtling down a snowy slope. If you haven't experienced this before, write about how you imagine it might feel. 

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.