Welcome to the 23^rd day of the Just For Today Challenge – 31 Days To A Better You.

Today’s Challenge will involve your creative side. Do something, anything, to get your creative juices flowing and have fun while you’re doing it. Don’t take life so seriously. It’s meant to be enjoyed and not endured. So have some fun today!

Remember when we were children in art class? Remember making beautiful (and I use that term loosely) works of art just by using our hands and some paint? I have such fond memories of finger painting when I was a child. I would sit for hours and draw such wondrous things on reams of paper. It kept me occupied for quite a while my Mom was busy with the rest of the family.

My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life. – Miles Davis

When we grow up, unless you are an Artist, we tend to forget that we have a creative side. Everyone has a creative side, some people are just more in touch with it and are able to indulge it more than others.

It’s very easy for long stretches of time to go by where we’ve lost that childhood innocence of using some macaroni and glue to make a wonderful piece of art that we were proud to give to our parents. I’m sure that my Mom still has that ashtray that I made in 3rd grade out of clay and which I painted in my favourite colours. It was so easy back then to be creative - we didn’t have to think and analyze and be scared of being judged. We just had fun and created things that brought us joy.

Well, today you get to do that again  

There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray. – Doug Hall

Let’s have a rainbow day today, instead of a “shade of gray“.

Stuck for some ideas of how you can be creative today? Here are some ways that I thought of that would be fun and creative:

• Grab some crayons and sit with your children and colour in their colouring books.
• Go out and make an angel in the snow, or make a snow man. Make the best darn snowman on the block!
• Try finger painting a picture of something that doesn’t exist. Get your fingers full of gooey paint and paint something.
• Doodle spontaneously on whatever comes to your mind. Don’t think, just draw.
• Draw or sketch something fantastical, mythical and wonderful.
• Cook something in the kitchen without a recipe and something that you’ve never tried making before. Just wing it and see what kind of culinary delight you can come up with. Baking is great for this.
• Start singing and making up the words as you go along. Try to rap. I dare you
• Create a new dance and dance it like no one is watching you
• Take a picture and upload it into Photoshop or Paint and just play with it. See what kind of wacky fun you can have fooling around with the various tools and techniques.
• While you’re in Photoshop or other painting program, design something new.
• Start scrapbooking (highly addictive and you can even do it online).
• Paint a watercolour picture of something that inspires you.
• Whittle a bar of soap.
• Make a macaroni and glue picture and then display it proudly on your wall. Tell everyone who comes to your home that you made it!
• Create a paper mache masterpiece.
• Cut out some magazine pictures and make a collage of things that inspire you.
• Or how about, write  a new blog post! But, don’t write something you normally would write anyways. That’s too much like work. Have fun with a new topic. Be zany. Be creative!

The idea is to have fun Just For Today and to remember the simple joys of life – like when we were kids we didn’t care what that our clothes got dirty with paint or that our pictures turned out kind of funny – Mom still stuck them up on the fridge and told us how proud she was of us. We can be proud of ourselves for whatever we have created today. We can have fun today!

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try being creative today. Share with us what masterpiece you had fun creating today by leaving a comment. Thanks!

For a list of all of the Challenges, see the Just For Today Challenge page.

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