Halloween Journal Challenge
Greetings ghosts and ghouls – enter if you dare!!
There are so many wonderful things about the month of October, but the one thing I look forward to most of all is #HalloweenJournalChallenge!
What is the Halloween Journal Challenge? The HJC is an annual creative journaling challenge hosted by Kia Creates every single October. It’s a creative, spooky, communal celebration of all things art journaling and Halloween – it really is the best time of the year!
There is one prompt for every 2 days in October. Scroll down to discover this year’s challenge prompts! Interpret each prompt in your journal, sketchbook, junk journal or scrapbook using whichever medium or style you’d like. Create a page every single day or dip in and out of the prompts as you please – it’s up to you!
Grab your copy of the Halloween Journal Challenge zine!
This season, I have been very busy lovingly handcrafting something I have always wanted to create: an official HJC Zine!!
This 16-page mini magazine is the perfect way to celebrate Autumn & Halloween and to soak in lots of HJC creative inspiration!
Inside you’ll find details of the Halloween Journal Challenge, the official 2025 Prompts List, the Creator Collaboration Calendar, and info on how you can join in. PLUS loads of extra inspiration including:
★ Bonus prompts!
★ Handmade collage cut-outs for each prompt!
★ A selection of pages from HJC’s past!
Only available to order for a limited time, grab your copy now to join in the fun and support me in continuing to host these annual challenges! ♡
Take a quick peek inside:
The HJC 2025 Prompt List!!!
The HJC 2025 Creator Calendar:
More spooky creative inspo:
Pssssst! I’ll be sending a Halloween themed sticker kit to my Creative Club members in October! If you’d like to receive some charming handmade spooky goodies, be sure to join my Creative Club by no later than the 30th September 2025!
Find all my spooky themed journaling videos in one place!
2024 YouTube Collaboration: a new ‘journal with me’ video for every day of the month! Each video by a different creator about that day’s HJC prompt, giving you Halloween journaling inspo galore! You can watch last year’s collaborative playlist through the link above and look forward to a whole month of videos again this year!
More info about Halloween Journal Challenge:
How does the journal challenge work?
Usually, the HJC consists of 31 creative journaling prompts, one to follow along with for every day in October!
The idea is to interpret the daily prompts in your own way, creating a single page or double spread in your journal based on each prompt, using whatever medium or style you’d like. Whether you’re into bullet journaling, creative journaling, sketchbooking, scrapbooking or something else. You can interpret the Halloween journal prompts in your usual way or use this as a chance to experiment and play with new materials and styles! There is no right or wrong, and it is amazing to see how one single prompt is interpreted in so many different ways by hundreds of creative individuals.
Sharing is caring!
This year will mark the EIGHTH annual Halloween Journal Challenge overall, and the third year in a row that we will host a YouTube collaboration, where a new artist shares a video for each day in October to give you inspiration for every prompt. That’s right, you can look forward to an entire month of journaling videos and spooky creative inspiration!
This is a community challenge – a great chance to discover other creators, support each other, and get inspiration from each other’s work. Share your HJC creations using the hashtag(s) #HalloweenJournalChallenge #HJC25 so the HJC community can find and support your work!
The 31st October journal flip through tradition…
On the last day of October, it’s a HJC tradition for the final prompt to be “Flip through”. This is a chance for participants to upload a video flipping through all the amazing art they’ve created for the challenge! The community gets really excited to see each other’s work encompassed like this, it’s an amazing chance to look back & be proud of everything we’ve created.
The most important rule…
Let yourself enjoy it! Yes, this is supposed to be a challenge, but it is also supposed to be inspiring and fun, so I always encourage participants to take their time if you need to. (It’s almost tradition at this point for me to be the last one to finish the prompts even though I’m the host, haha!)
