Four Easy Creative Project Ideas
Sometimes we all feel like choosing a fun creative activity that feels like playing, and helps us to find our creative joy again. Here are four easy project ideas. These can be modified in any way you choose, so don’t be afraid to try your own ideas out.
Sometimes we all feel like choosing an easy, fun, creative project or action, which speaks to us. Something without a high learning curve, that will not add more stress to our lives. An activity that feels like playing, and that helps us to find our creative joy again.
Here are four easy project ideas to get started.These can be modified in any way you choose or may even get you thinking of other ways that you can be creative. Don’t be afraid to try your ideas out. Happy playing.
Camera Closeups. Take photographs that are very closeup and that show the beauty and texture of the patterns of nature. Your subject matter can be anything in nature such as the inside of a flower, or a puddle on the ground. Blades of grass. The sky. You can use your children as subject matter by photographing the palm of their hands for example. Really look and see and enjoy.
Alphabet story. This is a great one for people who have families as you can get the whole family involved. Make up a story about anything you like with the first sentence starting with the letter “A”. Then the second sentence must start with the letter “B”. The third sentence must start with the letter “C”. And so forth through the alphabet until you reach the end. You can either end the story there or start again at the beginning of the alphabet. Don’t worry about the quality of the story, or overthink it. This is about having fun and finding joy again as you reconnect with your inner creative spirit.
Collecting leaves and drying flowers. When I was a child I used to enjoy picking up pretty leaves that I found interesting. My mother taught me to press them between the pages of a heavy book. You can put paper on either side so that nothing dirties the book page. Wildflowers can be picked and then hung upside down to dry. These are very simple but satisfying pursuits.
Crafts, everyday games and playtime with your children. One idea is to make up a story with them that you write down. Have them colour a picture for the cover and your children will have published their first book. You can make the book at home by gluing, stapling, or sewing the pages into a book format, or if you prefer you can collect these stories and use an online publisher such as blurb.com to upload your child’s stories and pictures and then have the finished book mailed to you.
Open to Creativity
By allowing more creativity into our lives, we can learn to balance our soul’s elemental needs with the roles and responsibilities that are so much of our lives but that may not be fulfilling everything that our core essence needs.
Although we sometimes feel that we don’t have the time to be creative, and are caught up in the daily grind of our everyday lives, even by spending a small amount of time on creative projects on a regular basis, or by being open to allowing creativity into our lives in whatever form it appears, we can each feel more connected with our souls. There are many reasons why we yearn to allow creativity into our lives, and to reconnect with our core essence, and many benefits from doing so.
Being creative is fun, and helps us to be in touch with our inner child, the one who never grew up and who still knows how to play. Being creative can help us to find balance, and to centre us, allowing us to increase our abilities to find tranquility in the chaos of life, and to better deal with stress and anxieties. Allowing creativity into your life will also help you tune into your own intuition, and the more creativity that there is in our lives, the stronger our intuition becomes. It is as if it is a muscle being strengthened.
The act of creating (art, crafts, doodles, anything!) is an ancient primeval act. It is elemental and natural, when our lives can sometimes seem so complicated. Our souls yearn for creativity. If you feel this and are listening to your heart, you can begin to allow more creativity into your life, and learn to balance your soul’s elemental needs with the roles and responsibilities that are so much of your life but that may not be fulfilling everything that your core essence is waiting for.
If you have a hectic and busy life you can begin by choosing an art or craft project to work on for 30 minutes a day, or only on a weekend for an hour at a time before your kids wake up, or whatever works for you. Or you may choose to instead go and see a play or to an art gallery, or to go for a walk in nature and really look at and see the beauty of the leaves. As a child, such a simple thing as collecting pretty leaves and pressing them between the pages of a book used to fill me with joy. Perhaps if you have children you would enjoy fingerpainting with them. The important thing is to schedule in time for creativity and make an appointment with your soul.
If you have a more relaxed life and have free time, or are not a scheduler, you may wish to be creative as the mood takes you, and to blend your creative projects in with the rhythms of your life, the seasons and your energy, following your intuition as to when to nourish your soul with creativity. By allowing creativity into your life, you will feel a sense of peace and well-being as you reconnect with our soul. You will feel more centred and balanced. And you will find yourself listening to and hearing more of what your heart is trying to tell you.