5 Activities to Inspire Creativity.

Having creativity is such an important thing to your person and soul. There isn't anything better than feeling that surge of magic when you find that special something that inspires you. I get stuck every now and then and what helps is always being on the look out for inspiration and to have a few activities to help those creative juices flow.  Here are some of my favorite go-to challenges or activities that get me unstuck from a rut.  

1.  Go to the art museum and go straight to the current exhibition.  The current exhibition usually changes seasonally. The art museum usually has a few different sections that they rotate the art to make it feel fresh but there are some that are permanent display that are just plan boring. skip it and go right up to that amazing current exhibition and be in the world of the artist.  Walk slowly and let your brain enjoy what your looking at and ask yourself at the end how did they make that? Before you leave visit the museum gift shop and buy yourself a cheap postcard from the exhibit to always remind you of how awesome it was.

2.  Take 5 dollars and only 5 dollars and go to your local thrift store. Your job is to find an object that inspires you and it's ok if it's broken or missing something or dirty and basically the only rule is that it needs to be under 5 bucks. Once you buy the item, take a piece of paper and fold it in fourths.  Unfold the paper and write in each corner 1,2,3, and 4 (1 being in the upper left hand corner, 2 being in the upper right, 3 in lower left, and 4 in the lower right) Refold the paper leaving the corner 1 showing and draw that corner of your object, not the whole object just that corner.  Refold the  paper showing only 2, and draw that corner and keep going until your drawing is complete. Unfold paper and see what you made! yay!

3.  Wear comfortable shoes and make sure your camera phone has 100% juice. Go into your local city or town- somewhere busy.  Look for something that starts with the letter A and take a photo. Then go onto the next letter and the next.  You can not go out of order and it has to be alphabetical.  Now you can look back and see what happened.

4.  Make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sammich. Now if you don't like the PBJs that's ok too, thats not the point. Take a piece of paper or sketch paper and write or draw 20 different  variations of the PBJ- they can be as crazy as you want. and just for the record I like my PBJ with crunchy potato chips.

5.  Take out a couple of old magazines and newspapers.  Take a blank piece of paper and start cutting out only words that you are attracted to. Now stack the words on top each other like a list. On your blank piece of paper draw out each word and I am saying draw not write.  Writing is something you do everyday this is something that should be extra- ordinary. Now at the end- what did your subconscious say?

Happy Creating.