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!

The HJC 2026 Creator Calendar:

Take a quick peek inside:

More info about Halloween Journal Challenge:

How does the journal challenge work?

Usually, the HJC consists of 15 creative journaling prompts, one to follow along with for every 2 days 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 NINTH 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 #HJC26 #HalloweenJournalChallenge2026 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!)