RIP This Book is a creative activity book with prompts to draw, doodle, paint stick, rip, collage, wreck and inspire creativity. 

Discover fun new ways to create, get messy and enjoy the process of making art.

A Create and Destroy Journal for hours of screen free fun

Do you often feel like you want to scribble all over the page, draw outside the lines and make messy art like you did when you were a little kid?

Do you feel intimidated by beautifully pristine art journals?

Is your creative spark stifled by the pressure to be neat and produce ‘proper’ art?

Or are you a parent looking for a creative gift to encourage screen free time?

Then this book is for you!

RIP This Book creative activity book is your invitation to make a beautiful mess, be perfectly imperfect and free yourself of your creative shackles. Embrace the messy, fun, juvenile art you used to love and don’t worry if you wreck this book in the process.

Remember those days in preschool when art was all about having fun, trying out new textures, processes and materials and getting really messy in the process? Striving for a perfect end result was never the goal…… It was all about experimenting, having fun, and the freedom to explore new ways to be creative.

RIP This Book is filled with art activities and creative challenges

RIP This Book is filled with arty, crafty, creative challenges to take you on a journey of creativity, back to those finger painting days in preschool where you did leaf rubbings and butterfly pictures and came home covered in paint glue and glitter. Rediscover your creative roots and fall in love with your arty crafty side all over again (just don’t eat the paint this time!)

Get ready to smudge, smear, scratch and sprinkle your creative glitter all over the pages of this book. It’s time to rest your intentions and make creativity about the process and not the end result.

WARNING:This creative journal may get ruined on purpose.

Do I really have to RIP the book?
I like ripping because it feels uncontrolled, impulsive and a little bit ‘naughty’, like it’s againast the rules, and the results aren’t always predictable- that chimes with my ethos for this book. There are a couple of prompts which involve ripping or cutting the pages of the book in a creative way but it isn’t all about ripping……
The title RIP this book is also a play on R.I.P (Rest In Peace) because the book is going to get messy, wrecked or completely destroyed through the creative process and will never look the same again. The final challenge is to create an obituary for the book- a kind of celebration of the book and a look back on it’s journey.

Who is this book for?
Children and adults looking for some creative fun. I loved testing the challenges included in RIP this book and so did my eight year old daughter – I’m not sure who had most fun! The simple prompts can be interpreted in your own way so are equally good for children aged 7+, teens and adults. Some of the prompts might seem childish – like finger painting and leaf rubbing…. that’s kind of the point of the book!

Share your completed pages with me on Instagram @Dottydoodle_s and TikTok @Dotty.Doodles and I’ll share some of mine too. I’d love to see what you get up to.

The boring bit

• 162 pages of creative tasks printed on premium white paper with black ink
• 6×9 compact creative journal size
• Available in premium soft paperback cover or hardcover versions.
• The cover finish is matte so you can easily add your own embellishments.
• There are a couple of pages of tips, tricks and hacks for completing the book, followed by over 75 prompted arty crafty or creatively destructive projects on double page spreads.