It’s time to reveal the prompts and prizes for Mindfultober 2025: The Chill October Art Challenge!

If you joined us in previous years, you’ll know that Mindfultober is all about slowing down, making space for creativity, and using art as a mindful, nourishing practice during October. This year’s challenge continues the tradition, with four simple prompts designed to spark your imagination and encourage reflection.

How Mindfultober 2025 works

Here’s how to take part:

1. Create and share – Make artworks based on the prompts throughout October.
2. Post on Instagram – Share your work using the hashtags #mindfultober and #mindfultober2025 so we can find your entries.
3. Re-share the prompts – Save the image below and include it when you post your art (it can be the second image in your carousel).
4. Reflect in your caption – Tell us how you found the process: how did you feel while creating? How did you approach the artwork mindfully?
5. Choose your medium – Paint, sketch, collage, digital… anything goes! The prompts are open to interpretation, so follow your curiosity and have fun.

This Year’s Prompts

• Sky
• Flowing
• Grow
• Waves

Each prompt has its own upcoming blog post with a tutorial you can follow if you want – so keep an eye out for those!

Mindfultober 2025 Prizes

To make this art challenge even more rewarding, we have some lovely prizes lined up (cos who doesn’t like a bit of external reward?!?):

🎁 3 x Yearly Premium Skillshare Memberships
🎁 Jutta’s Procreate Brush Set

Winners will be chosen at random from all qualifying entries. Every prompt you complete and share gives you one entry into the prize draw (maximum of four entries per person). The more prompts you join in with, the more chances you’ll have to win!

Prompt Specific Blog Posts:

• Sky (coming soon)
• Flowing (coming soon)
• Grow (coming soon)
• Waves (coming soon)

Final Thoughts

Mindfultober is about so much more than finishing artworks – it’s about giving yourself permission to pause, play, and create with intention. It’s about process over outcome. I’m looking forward to seeing how you interpretation this year’s prompts, and to sharing in the gentle, mindful creativity that October (now) brings.