Find Ways to Express Yourself With Our Creative Activities for October

Finding time for creativity can lead to new ideas, inspiration, and the empowering nature of being able to embrace your authentic self in a little way. Our creative activities for October are full of ideas you can try throughout the month.

Creative Activities

• Make a vision board for the month.
• Imagine you won an award & give a 1-min speech.
• Take fall-themed photos with family or friends.
• Try a new recipe for brunch at home.
• Take a different route to and from work.
• Rearrange the furniture in the living room or bedroom.
• Doodle for 15 minutes.
• Try nature journaling.
• Set a timer for 15 minutes and write down ideas for a book.
• Take a craft class (like pottery or embroidery)
• Work on a big puzzle.
• Try a fun new skill (like juggling or calligraphy).
• Learn something about a topic you know little about.
• Try gratitude journaling.
• Learn a magic trick.
• Try a coloring book for adults.
• Create a themed playlist (e.g., decade-themed, mood-based).
• Decorate the house for Halloween.
• Start a collection of postcards.
• Set a timer for 15 minutes and write down as many positive thoughts as you can.
• Take a fun cooking class (e.g., sushi-rolling class).
• Try morning or evening journaling.
• Solve some brain teasers.
• Try an at-home science experiment kit.
• Upcycle a piece of furniture at home.
• Make a handmade postcard and send it to a friend.
• DIY a fun costume for Halloween.
• Learn five words in another language.
• Work on a photo gallery wall with fall photos.
• Try a new packed lunch recipe.
• Make a creative Halloween appetizer.

Get the Creative Activities Printable

Get the Creative Activities printable for October here.

Watercoloring Calendar (Seasonal Change)

Draw a line in the middle of your paper or fold your paper in half. Paint half-and-half paintings. Where possible, use the change in color to experiment and blend your colors together e.g., green leaf to read leaf.

• Black coffee to latte.
• Leaf turning from green to red.
• Clear lake to misty lake.
• Bee on a sunflower to sunflower with fall colors.
• Blank whiteboard to whiteboard with equations written on it.
• White moon to harvest moon.
• Green pinecone to open brown pinecone.
• Spider web to frosted spider web.
• White clouds to rainclouds.
• Field with flowers to field with hay bales.
• Nest with eggs to empty nest.
• Summer fruit bowl to fall fruit bowl.
• Ship on a calm sea to a stormy sea.
• Freshly mowed lawn to leaf-covered lawn.
• Waterfall to frozen waterfall.
• Iced tea to hot cocoa.
• Sandals to boots.
• Summer tree to fall tree.
• Beach towel to picnic blanket.
• Raw veggie to roasted veggie e.g., squash.
• Apple salad to apple pie.
• New candle to melted candle.
• Beach postcard to orchard postcard.
• Porch in sunshine to porch under porchlight.
• Denim jacket to yellow raincoat.
• Empty fireplace to lit fireplace.
• Bowl of watermelon pieces to bowl of mixed nuts.
• Potatoes to French fries.
• Blue sky landscape to fall sunset landscape.
• Summer apple to caramel apple.
• Pumpkin to jack-o’-lantern.

Simple Watercoloring Calendar

• Rainy window
• Black cat
• Hot latte
• Candlelight
• Moonlight
• Sage leaves
• Wheat
• Leafy carrot
• Scarecrow in a field
• Broomstick
• Fireplace
• Hay bale
• Something orange-red
• Harvest basket
• Ear of corn
• Wooden crate
• Wheelbarrow
• Autumn oak leaf
• Potato
• Something that makes you grateful
• Chalkboard
• Opal (gemstone)
• Beetroot with leaves
• Chrysanthemums
• Blackberries
• Gnome
• Bat shape
• Candy bowl
• Haunted house
• Ghost
• Pumpkin

October Doodling Calendar

• Pug in a pumpkin costume.
• Dachshund as Count Dracula.
• Any pet under a white sheet as a ghost.
• Shih Tzu in a skeleton suit.
• Greyhound in mummy bandages.
• Gerbil in a scarecrow costume.
• Cat in a centipede costume.
• Bulldog with a Frankenstein mask.
• Jack Russell as a pirate captain.
• Hamster in a three-eyed alien hat.
• Iguana in a black suit and top hat.
• Dachshund in a hot dog costume.
• Cat in a spider legs costume.
• Bulldog in a bumblebee costume.
• Dog in an orange jumpsuit.
• Cat with a witch’s hat.
• Zombie dog.
• Husky in a wizard costume.
• Guinea pig in a Ghostbusters uniform.
• Gothic goat.
• Pirate parrot.
• Spaniel in a clown costume.
• Tortoise in a UFO costume.
• Rabbit in a dinosaur costume.
• Scientist sheepdog in a lab coat.
• Puppy in a bubbling cauldron costume.
• Labrador in a ‘bowl of candy’ hat.
• Cat in a jester costume.
• Astronaut dog.
• Batpug (Pug as Batman).
• Pharoah cat.

Get the October Doodling Printable

Get the October doodling printable here.

Simple Doodling

• Maple leaf
• Spooky castle
• Cozy socks
• Lantern
• Cupcake
• Cinnamon sticks
• Fox
• Tree log
• Slice of pie
• Door wreath
• Spider web
• Cranberry branch
• Hat
• Raven
• Cozy blanket
• Basket with apples
• Sliders
• Windowsill with candles
• Carved pumpkin
• Spooky tree
• Cabin in the woods
• Star constellation
• S’mores
• Feather
• Crescent moon
• Cozy slippers
• Frog
• Cauldron
• Mummy
• Crystal ball
• Spooky skeleton

Even if your busy schedule only allows for 5 or 10 minutes of creative time, that’s still worth pursuing. We hope this calendar inspires you to do something creative just for you throughout the month.

You may also enjoy our other fall activities and printables.