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109 Examples of Creative Activities

John Spacey, updated on April 25, 2024

Creative activities are personal pursuits that produce things. This implies a degree of creative expression whereby you make something unique and non-obvious. Creative activities can be engaging and rewarding because can be difficult to fully master such that it is always possible to improve and progress. This can be compared with regular activities such as taking a walk that don't involve much mastery. The following are common examples of creative activities.

Acting	Animation
Architecture modeling	Art
Audio engineering	Baking
Bookbinding	Building models
Calligraphy	Candle making
Candy making	Carpentry
Cartooning	Choreography
Coding and software design	Collage and decollage
Comedy	Comic book art
Computer animation	Cooking
Cosplay	Costume making
Crochet	Cross-stitching
DJing	Dancing
Digital art	Drama
Drawing	Dressmaking
Embroidery	Engraving
Entrepreneurial projects	Fan art
Fashion design	Fashion illustration
Filmmaking	Flower arranging and floral design
Furniture making	Game design
Gardening	Glass blowing
Graphic design	Home publishing
Home renovation	Home technology projects
Illustration	Improv
Interior design	Jewelry making
Knitting	Landscaping
Leatherworking	Low technology
Macrame	Magic tricks
Makeup artistry	Media production
Metalworking	Model building
Mods	Motion graphics
Music composition and song writing	Music production
Musical performance	Nail art
Origami	Painting
Paper crafts	Pastry making
Performance art	Photography
Plays and theatrical performances	Podcasting
Pottery making	Print design
Printmaking	Product customization
Puppet making	Quilting
Research & experiments	Robotics
Role-playing games	Science projects
Scrapbooking	Screen printing
Sculpting	Sewing
Singing	Sketching
Soap making	Songwriting
Sound editing	Storyboarding
Strategy games	Street art
Street fashions	Tattoo art
Terrarium building	Textile design
Toy making	Traditional crafts
Typography	Upcycling projects
Video games	Wood carving
Woodworking	Worldbuilding
Writing

Visual Arts

Creative visual expression including fine arts, decorative arts, applied arts and digital art.

Design Activities

Designing things as a hobby or activity. For example, building architectural models that you have developed.

Media Arts

Activities related to media production and participation. For example, composing music or building worlds inside a video game.

Literary Arts

Activities related to writing and storytelling such as composing song lyrics or writing a book.

Performance Arts

Arts that are performed in front of an audience such as dance choreography or plays.

Crafts

The production of creative things by hand using relatively labor intensive processes. This is often based on the idea that by putting your work and care into things that they have more value to you.

DIY

Do-it-yourself are activities and hobbies that complete work traditionally completed by professions. This emerged due to the internet and the increased sharing of information about how to complete productive work that people may find fulfilling and interesting.