Make Something: Ball
No one crumples their paper any more. I’m glad. I care about trees. So I’m happy that my worst days as a writer don’t mean peril for a forest. At […]
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Make Something: Palindrome
Write a palindrome. Bonus: Illustrate it! Today is our last day of restful vacation in the Columbia River Gorge (tomorrow we travel home). As we moved from one lovely site […]
Make Something: Inspired by a Book
“Flip to a random page in a book at hand and make something inspired by the first sentence you read.” I landed in the perfect place to complete today’s make […]
Make Something: Inspired by a Stranger
Today’s make something instruction was to ask a stranger what I should make, and then—if possible—involve that stranger in the creative process. I was out to dinner with Jim and […]
Make Something: Letter to Me
Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life. This prompt makes me think of the Brad Paisley song, “Letter to Me.” I may not be as articulate in […]
Sibling Discovery: our first independent goals
After more than a year of Sibling Discovery conversations—having covered nearly all the prompts in our zip-top bag—my brother and sister and I agreed that these monthly discussions are good […]
Make Something: Visual Pun
I could probably do an entire year of visual puns … especially with some creative help from my children. We had so much fun brainstorming for today’s make something activity. […]
Make Something: Utensil
Create a new kind of utensil. Functional or not, document it in use. The utensil I created is not new in any way. It’s a pencil, and pencils have been […]
Make Something: Eraser
Make something with an eraser. How about a quick poem?
Make Something: Papier Mache
When was the last time you tried papier-mache? Yeah. Same here. Some poor, grade school art teacher led me and a roomful of other nine-year-olds through the messy process. God […]
Make Something: Unique Mask
I awoke too early this morning—a full two hours before I really needed to be up. As I lay there thinking, I decided my kindergarten year was a pretty spectacular time […]
Make Something: Upside Down
Have you ever tried to write upside down? My eight- and ten-year-old daughters assured me they have done this. A lot. They are upside-down-writing veterans. How I have never attempted […]
Make Something: Under Water
On the surface, if you ask me what I made today, I would say my daughter and I made a mess in the kitchen sink. We put a few inches […]
Make Something: Instructions
This one was easy! For the past year, I have been relaxing into my place as teacher, motivator, coach, mentor for writers. So when Noah Scalin’s book directed me to […]
Make Something: Path
“Make a path for people to follow and invite people to try it out.” I invite you to try this path … not just to read my meandering message, but […]
Beth Nyland 