Halloween Creative Prompt Hunt

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Remember this: Games are fun. Let them begin. 

Dear Reader de Noches,

As promised, here are some creative spooky prompts to get you going. Finished products should be posted to social media so we can see. 

Expires 10-31-2025 at 12:00 am. 

1. You have just found out Aunt Vera has passed. Aunt Vera is into the Occult. She is on her way quietly housed in a urn made in the shape of a spirit box. Unbeknownst to the family-the spirit box is real. Tell or show us everything that has happened the week after her remains arrive at your door up to Halloween. Remember she didn't like you, or does she? You can do a video journal everyday. Incorporate an eerie original tune. Make Aunt Vera proud!

2. You are a homicidal maniac that is having second thoughts over your obsession for a book character called OingaBoinga. Make a video directed at Booktok rallying the Booktok troops to do a supporting video expounding on why OingaBoinga is the best thing since birria tacos. FYI-OingaBoinga's favorite color is Sunset Orange.

3. Aunt Vera's husband, Uncle Jerry, has a phobia of Haints and the color blue. He is suspicious Aunt Vera is coming back to haunt him due to her newfound knowledge in the Spirit World. What could it be? FYI-Uncle Jerry is prone to semi-sleep paralysis.

4. The artist job is to be interpretive. In your best creative dramatic way, retell the story of how Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones meet. Of course, feel free to elaborate on the Headless Horseman's allergies to all things pumpkin spice and fire hazards. 

5. Working from a script, you as the noob actor is asked to screen test a moment from Rearview Window. Do your best alternative ending Jimmy Stewart scene. Be horrifying. 

6. Dressed and in character as Alfred Hitchcock, video diary facial expressions and dialogue in spooky lighting, a moment of terrible realization that something is amiss. Be original. 

7. Write a three minute historical mystery that is filled with suspense, in prose, that alludes to something brewing to make us feel uneasy about the present. Read it to a spooky tune and upload to Tiktok. 

8. Have an Edwardian lunch while Rome is burning in the background with a quartet of violins playing Akasha's song. 

9. Work from your super power as a journalist. Dress as Miss Crabbits and tell us, while spying out the window on Hollow's Eve, why its important to be nosy and ask questions. She lives on Magnifying Street. 

10. Construct a Birkin bag knockoff but make it Halloween. Use cheap constructs. Make sure your logo is front and center. 

11. Bake a cake in sculpture form. Use vintage Halloween as inspiration.

12. Construct a stop motion video or vinyl record cover called, Life of a VooDoo doll. 

13. In your best childlike art draw a picture of what scares you in dreams.

14. You are a gypsy tarot reader. Your customer changes into a werewolf. Use TooTurntTony as Inspiration. 

15. Using Hieronymus Bosch as inspiration. Construct a foam board triptych of vintage Halloween images that tell a story.

Happy Candy Hunting 

Image Credit: Emran Hossain