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Daily Creativity #78: Write about Your Favorite Activity

Post Published July 8, 2020 by Jane Levi

What is your favorite activity? Is it running, baking cookies, building models, growing crystals, biking? Write one paragraph of instructions for someone else who has never done this activity before, explaining how to do it. Then, write another paragraph explaining why you love it, and what you think they will get out of giving it a try.

Something feels different, go away COVID-19, a poem by Manasi Karthikeyan, 12

Post Published July 7, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

Something feels different, go away COVID-19 Manasi Karthikeyan, 12 Stuck at home away from those you see every day It feels like we are being held captive, but we can’t yell Mayday! We wait and wait until this time is over So, get up and wish on a four-leaf clover!

Daily Creativity #77: Write about What You’re Thinking about Right Now

Post Published July 7, 2020 by Molly Torinus

Write about what you're thinking about in this exact moment. It doesn't have to make any sense.

The Writer, Artist of Words, by Michaela Frey, 12

Post Published July 6, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

The Writer, Artist of Words Michaela Frey, 12 A fog has fallen over the people, a devastating, colorless, mist of despair hanging over the humans. Those consumed in the fog are mourned; yet the numbers of those taken rise every day, a staircase leading up, and all the same, leading downwards in a spiral.

Daily Creativity #76: Write a Story Inspired by a Renoir Painting

Post Published July 6, 2020 by Jane Levi

Look at this painting by Renoir (Dance at the Moulin de la Galette) and imagine yourself in this scene. Who are you? Why are you there? What can you see, smell, hear? What has just happened? What are you going to do next? Write a short story or prose poem inspired by this painting, from the perspective of the character you have imagined.

This Virus Should Bring us Closer, graphic art by Rebecca Wu, 9

Post Published July 5, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

This Virus Should Bring us Closer Rebecca Wu, 9

Daily Creativity #75: Incorporate Your Favorite Things into Surrealist Art

Post Published July 3, 2020 by Jane Levi

Write down your favorite animal. Your favorite food. An interesting object. A place you have dreamed of going to but have never visited. Now, put them all together to create a surrealist work of art. This might be visual work like a painting or a drawing, or a piece of writing. For an introduction to surrealism, watch the Tate’s short video.

Fish, some thoughts on COVID-19 and school by Matilda Glascott, 6

Post Published July 3, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

Fish Matilda Glascott, 6 Being at home is no fun I'd much rather be at school I bet the fish are already in one Fish are pretty cool. Fish get to eat yummy things. Fish get to go to the pool. I wish I was a fish. I wish I could go to school.

Going to the Beach, a poem by Katie Yang, 11

Post Published July 2, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

Going to the Beach Katie Yang, 11 YESTERDAY Beautiful day. I went to the beach. The beach is beautiful too. Shining brightly like it has just won a million dollars. Shining brightly over everyone at the beach Like it is the luckiest sun in the world.

Daily Creativity #74: Write a Transcription of a Sound

Post Published July 2, 2020 by Jane Levi

Can you write a sound? Not just using adjectives, or even alliteration–but actual transcription of sound? Try sitting somewhere you can listen to a common sound in your life, and try to write down exactly what you hear. What do you write when you try to capture the sound of water running, birds singing, engines running, someone cooking?

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