JOURNAL JAR

Making a journal jar is a creative way to encourage someone to start slowly keeping a journal. Whether you're a person who already likes to journal, you're not really interested, or you find it too time consuming, a journal jar lets you attempt to journal in small doses. I know I have good intentions and would love to journal every day just so I can remember something about these days that go by so fast. The days all blend into one and before you know it, all the memories are just one big blur.

The idea behind a journaling jar is that you take out one prompt a day, glue it to your journal page and write a response to that prompt. Here's how it's done:

First you find a jar (any size will work). You can keep it plain, putting a label on the outside that says, "Journal Jar" or you can decorate it with patterned paper, fabric or anything else you want.

Pick 100 journaling prompts

Type them and print them out on cute fonts on paper and cut them into strips with decorative scissors. (You can also use regular scissors, but the decorative are prettier.) OR You could also write the prompts yourself with different colored markers or a black pen.

Then fold them up and put them into the decorated jar.

I WILL THEN RUN JOURNAL JAR SWAP PART TWO IN WHICH A COMPOSITION BOOK IS NEEDED, YOU WILL GLUE THE PROMPTS ONTO EACH PAGE (SINCE A STANDARD COMPOSITION BOOK IS 100 PAGES) AND ANSWER THE PROMPTS!) YOU CAN EITHER ENTER BOTH OR JUST PART ONE!