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Get inspired with daily creativity prompts

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Our creativity prompts aim to inspire you to get creative every day and jumpstart your art if you’re ever feeling stuck or bored. Our prompts are themed yet broad enough to suit artists in all niches.

This month's prompts

Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Soundful Sunday prompt for December 7, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: DEC 7, 2025 | SOUNDFUL SUNDAY PROMPT. “Meet Me at the Creek” by Billy Strings. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

December 7, 2025

One of our founder, Mel’s, all-time favorite songs, this 9-minute bluegrass tune is a whopper complete with heartful lyrics and a mind-melting banjo and mandolin breakdown.
SOUNDFUL SUNDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Spectacle Saturday prompt for November 29, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 29, 2025 | SPECTACLE SATURDAY PROMPT. “The Water Song” by Chenoa Egawa & Alex Turtle. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 29, 2025

This Diné (Navajo) language song and music video contain beautiful messages that all humans could do with hearing. Make some time today to watch it today, particularly the intro.
SPECTACLE SATURDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Framework Friday prompt for November 28, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 28, 2025 | FRAMEWORK FRIDAY PROMPT. The origins of Native American Heritage Day. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 28, 2025

Dr. Arthur C. Parker was a Seneca historian and activist who worked to establish National Native American Heritage Day. He also saved 50 Iroquois artifacts from a fire in 1911, while wielding the tomahawk passed down through his family for generations.
FRAMEWORK FRIDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Lit Thursday prompt for November 27, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 27, 2025 | LIT THURSDAY PROMPT. The Crow story of “the Little People”. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 27, 2025

According to a Crow tale, “the Little People” live under the earth, making sure the rivers flow and providing protection and guidance.
LIT THURSDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Worldly Wednesday prompt for November 26, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 26, 2025 | WORLDLY WEDNESDAY PROMPT. Ahupua’a: Indigenous Hawai’ian infrastructure. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 26, 2025

Before the island was invaded by white colonizers, Indigenous Hawai’ians maintained their land through a natural infrastructural system called ahupua'a, featuring gardens, rock terraces, and fish ponds.
WORLDLY WEDNESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Artistic Tuesday prompt for November 25, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 25, 2025 | ARTISTIC TUESDAY PROMPT. Prehistoric cave art at Painted Bluff. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 25, 2025

Home to 100+ prehistoric cave paintings, Painted Bluff in what’s now Alabama is a treasure trove of Indigenous culture and creativity.
ARTISTIC TUESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Maker Monday prompt for November 24, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 24, 2025 | MAKER MONDAY PROMPT. A closer look at Inuit tattoos. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 24, 2025

Facial tattoos are culturally significant for Inuit peoples of Turtle Island (North America). Typically given to women to mark their transition to adulthood, every tunniit (ᑐᓃᑦ) includes unique symbols with personal meanings for each woman.
MAKER MONDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Soundful Sunday prompt for November 23, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 23, 2025 | SOUNDFUL SUNDAY PROMPT. The impressive art of Sakha nature-singing. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 23, 2025

Today’s Indigenous-inspired prompt is our first that’s not based on an artist from Turtle Island (North America). Feast your ears on the stunning art of nature-singing, unique to the Republic of Sakha on mainland Russia.
SOUNDFUL SUNDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Spectacle Saturday prompt for November 22, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 22, 2025 | SPECTACLE SATURDAY PROMPT. A short history of the hula. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 22, 2025

Learn about the history of the hula and watch a traditional dance with bamboo pu'ili “rhythm sticks”.
SPECTACLE SATURDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Framework Friday prompt for November 21, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 21, 2025 | FRAMEWORK FRIDAY PROMPT. Ancient Olmec colossal heads. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 21, 2025

Several Olmec colossal heads have been discovered in what’s now the Tabasco and Veracruz regions of Mexico. Ranging between 3 and 12 feet tall, these massive basalt sculptures are at least 3,000 years old.
FRAMEWORK FRIDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Lit Thursday prompt for November 20, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 20, 2025 | LIT THURSDAY PROMPT. Uktena and Thunder. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 20, 2025

In this 3-minute clip, Cherokee National Treasure Robert Lewis tells the story of Uktena and Thunder.
LIT THURSDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Worldly Wednesday prompt for November 19, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 19, 2025 | WORLDLY WEDNESDAY PROMPT. Lorene Drywater’s buffalo grass dolls. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 19, 2025

Lorene Drywater is a Cherokee National Treasure, talented seamstress, and master of her own craft: buffalo grass doll-making.
WORLDLY WEDNESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Artistic Tuesday prompt for November 18, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 18, 2025 | ARTISTIC TUESDAY PROMPT. Almost lost: photography of Benjamin Haldane. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 18, 2025

Several stunning portraits by Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane were almost lost forever — until 150+ of his glass plate negatives were recovered from a local dump in the 1990s.
ARTISTIC TUESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Maker Monday prompt for November 17, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 17, 2025 | MAKER MONDAY PROMPT. Frybread: a Navajo symbol of resilience. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 17, 2025

Steeped in colonialism and resilience is frybread, a dish invented by the Navajo in the 1860s.
MAKER MONDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Soundful Sunday prompt for November 16, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 16, 2025 | SOUNDFUL SUNDAY PROMPT. The soulful sounds of Rodrigo y Gabriela. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 16, 2025

Hailing from Mexico, Rodrigo y Gabriela are immensely talented flamenco guitar players whose instrumental music is inspired by everything from jazz to metal.
SOUNDFUL SUNDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Spectacle Saturday prompt for November 15, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 15, 2025 | SPECTACLE SATURDAY PROMPT. A glimpse inside Turtle Island’s largest powwow. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 15, 2025

The Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico is one of the largest in the world, with 700+ tribes represented from all over Turtle Island.
SPECTACLE SATURDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Framework Friday prompt for November 14, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 14, 2025 | FRAMEWORK FRIDAY PROMPT. Ancient cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 14, 2025

Between approximately 500 ADE and 1200 ADE, Pueblo peoples built, maintained, and expanded an impressive network of cave and cliff dwellings in what is now Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
FRAMEWORK FRIDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Lit Thursday prompt for November 13, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 13, 2025 | LIT THURSDAY PROMPT. “We Are Water Protectors” by Carole Lindstrom. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 13, 2025

Written and illustrated by Indigenous makers, We Are Water Protectors is a children’s book inspired by young activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline from Standing Rock Reservation.
LIT THURSDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Worldly Wednesday prompt for November 12, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 12, 2025 | WORLDLY WEDNESDAY PROMPT. Jonathan, the oldest living land animal. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 12, 2025

The oldest known land animal is a 190-year-old tortoise named Jonathan. He lives on the island of Saint Helena, and he’s very close with another tortoise named Frederica.
WORLDLY WEDNESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Artistic Tuesday prompt for November 11, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 11, 2025 | ARTISTIC TUESDAY PROMPT. The Great Goddess of Teotihuacan. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 11, 2025

The Great Goddess of Teotihuacan is a mysterious goddess worshiped in ancient Mesoamerica. This beautifully preserved mural, discovered in the 1940s, is over 2,000 years old.
ARTISTIC TUESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Maker Monday prompt for November 10, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 10, 2025 | MAKER MONDAY PROMPT. The Crooked Beak of Heaven. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 10, 2025

The Kwakwaka’wakw is a group of Indigenous nations across Canada. While customs vary from tribe to tribe, one shared custom is the Hamat´sa dance, which involves crafting and wearing masks like this one.
MAKER MONDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Soundful Sunday prompt for November 9, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 9, 2025 | SOUNDFUL SUNDAY PROMPT. “Tsitsutsa Tsigesv”, your new fave Cherokee song. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 9, 2025

Ever heard Cherokee country music? Us either, until now. Agalisiga "Chuj" Mackey’s “Tsitsutsa Tsigesv”
SOUNDFUL SUNDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Spectacle Saturday prompt for November 8, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 8, 2025 | SPECTACLE SATURDAY PROMPT. . JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 8, 2025

Jonathan Joss was a queer Comanche and White Apache Mountain musician and actor best known for his roles on “King of the Hill” and “Parks & Rec”.
SPECTACLE SATURDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Framework Friday prompt for November 7, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 7, 2025 | FRAMEWORK FRIDAY PROMPT. Kindred Spirits. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 7, 2025

The “Kindred Spirits” sculpture in Dublin honors the Choctaw Nation’s donation to Ireland during the famine.
FRAMEWORK FRIDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Lit Thursday prompt for November 6, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 6, 2025 | LIT THURSDAY PROMPT. “Life Among the Piutes” by Thocmentony. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 6, 2025

Life Among the Piutes is an 1883 book by Northern Paiute author Thocmentony (Sarah Hopkins Winnemucca) documenting her people’s interactions with white colonizers.
LIT THURSDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Worldly Wednesday prompt for November 5, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 5, 2025 | WORLDLY WEDNESDAY PROMPT. Cherokee baskets: Where art, nature & necessity intersect. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 5, 2025

Basket weaving using natural materials is a well-known craft associated with Indigenous culture.
WORLDLY WEDNESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Artistic Tuesday prompt for November 4, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 4, 2025 | ARTISTIC TUESDAY PROMPT. Skywoman, an Indigenous creation story. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 4, 2025

Tonawanda Seneca artist Ernest Smith’s 1936 painting “Skywoman” depicts the creation story from many of Turtle Island’s Indigenous nations.
ARTISTIC TUESDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Maker Monday prompt for November 3, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 3, 2025 | MAKER MONDAY PROMPT. The Navajo blanket-weaving tradition. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 3, 2025

With their bold, colorful, geometric patterns, Navajo blankets and textiles are treasured and highly sought after.
MAKER MONDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Soundful Sunday prompt for November 2, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 2, 2025 | SOUNDFUL SUNDAY PROMPT. Dia de los Muertos. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 2, 2025

Dia de los Muertos (or “Day of the Dead”) is a Mexican holiday celebrating loved ones who have crossed through the great cosmic gates.

SOUNDFUL SUNDAY
Featured graphic for Joyful Creators Club’s Spectacle Saturday prompt for November 1, 2025. The text on the graphic reads: NOV 1, 2025 | SPECTACLE SATURDAY PROMPT. The patron saint of creativity. JOYFUL CREATORS CLUB.

November 1, 2025

Born in 1098, the patron saint of creativity, Hildegard von Bingen, had many titles: writer, composer, teacher, scientist, and healer.
SPECTACLE SATURDAY

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