60 Light, Fun Journal Prompts That Are Not About Self Discovery and Introspection

If you’re looking for some fun journal prompts that are entertaining, then you’ve come to the right place. These aren’t heavy prompts that make you dig into your childhood trauma. They’re more about silly scenarios and fun things.

Of course, if you want more serious prompts, I have a bunch of journal prompts on the blog. You can find these morning journal prompts to start the day or even new month prompts.

Have a great, playful day today full of joy and laughter.

Fun journal prompts that aren’t about self discovery

1. What’s your favorite color(s)?
2. Has your favorite color changed over the years? If yes, write about the iterations.
3. What’s your favorite animal? Why?
4. If you could be any animal for a day, would you choose your favorite animal? Or would you pick another?
5. Describe how the day would go as animal-you.
6. What’s something that always makes you laugh when you think about it?
7. Do you have a go-to TV show that always makes you feel happy? (any Tinkerbelle girlies out there?)
8. If you could be an Avenger, who would you be?
9. What about X-men? Who would you want to be?
10. What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
11. Imagine you could have a superpower for a day. What would you choose? What would you do with it?
12. What’s the worst possible superpower you can have?
13. The mayor called and asked you to create a new holiday. What would you come up with? How would you celebrate the new holiday?
14. Pick where you’d love to live: Narnia, Hogwarts, The Four Nations (from Avatar), Oz or Middle-Earth (from Lord of the Rings).
15. Who is your newest celebrity crush?
16. Which celebrity or personality do you hate-watch?
17. They’ve decided to recreate the ending episodes of Game of Thrones. You are the new script writer and director. What would you change?
18. Do you have a favorite emoji?
19. List your top 10 favorite foods. (make it shorter or longer if you like)
20. You now own a restaurant. What are you going to serve up on the menu?

Silly journal prompts

1. What’s your silliest dance move?
2. If you could be a color, what would you be?
3. What do you think you would smell and taste like as the color?
4. A million dollars or your best friends moving in with you for a year, which would you choose?
5. What’s the wackiest thing you’ve ever done?
6. You just became a cloud, draw how you look.
7. Do you think Pluto would be funny if it could talk?
8. Do you think Uranus would want a new name?
9. The Pet Rescue Association just gave you two kittens, a puppy, two fishes and a turtle to take care of. What are you going to name them?
10. What’s cuter: Moo Deng, a baby mini Highland cow or a baby panda?
11. Would you rather be an elf, dwarf or hobbit?
12. Snog, marry, pie: Dolores Umbridge, Hermione Granger, Bellatrix Lestrange.
13. Give yourself the funniest, most ridiculous nickname ever. Do this for your partner or best friend or pet.
14. Where do you think missing socks go?
15. Your new project is to create a mini movie about where socks go. Who would be the main characters? What would be the plot of the movie? (allow your imagination to run wild!)
16. Who is your favorite person to act silly with?
17. What’s the silliest thing you both have done together?
18. Your car now has its own personality and can talk to you. Describe its personality. What would be its name and what would it talk about?
19. It’s being reported that aliens live among us. Describe their looks or draw them.
20. What’s the funniest prank you’ve ever pulled on someone?

Fun journal prompts for adults

1. What’s something completely useless in your life that brings you a lot of joy?
2. What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever Googled?
3. Can you remember your favorite dream? What happened in it?
4. You have to create a fun, happy playlist. What songs are you including?
5. If you had to go one week without a phone or internet, where would you stay? Vegas? The Bahamas?
6. Describe the perfect potato day. (lazy day)
7. If there’s one thing you can do without facing any consequences, what would it be?
8. What was your favorite class growing up?
9. If you had to learn a new skill, what would it be? Something creative maybe?
10. What’s the one hobby you always wanted to try?
11. Do you remember any hilarious Dad jokes?
12. Congratulations, you just won a lifetime supply of _____ (fill in the blank). What are you going to do with it?
13. Who in your friend group is the funniest person? Who is the opposite of funny?
14. If you could go on a shopping spree with an unlimited budget, where would you go and what would you buy?
15. What’s an embarrassing moment in your life that still makes you cringe?
16. Name one thing you wish you would never have to do again.
17. You’ve been entered in a talent show. What are you going to perform?
18. List 5 fun things on your bucket list.
19. Your family asked you to create a new language that only they could understand and communicate with. What would be the word for ‘love’, ‘smile’ and ‘happy’? How would you write it?
20. If you won a ticket to visit outer space, would you go? (the inventors and billionaires would be on the same flight, if that helps)

Those are my fun journal prompts that are more about silliness and lightness. Play with them and let your creativity and imagination run wild.

If you want to find more ridiculous questions, check out these funny questions to ask your boyfriend. Use them on yourself and even journal about the answers. It’s a lot of fun!