As an artist, throwing limitations in your art activities are sometimes fun to spur your creative side. A system called limited palette allows you to use only two or three colors on your painting. You can limit the amount of clay you use in pottery or sculpture. By allowing only a pre-determined amount of clay, the size and shape of your project will be limited. If you are drawing you can set a limit of what size angle you can use or to draw without curves. Limiting a medium gives the artist a chance to see if they can make more with less. The activity spurs creativity and allows imagination to take over in a limited setting.
A creative art activity is to make a task to find unusual or ad lib art supplies around your home and limit yourself to what you find. Brushes can be fabricated out of old tooth brushes, clips of hair, broken broom straws. A canvas can be created out of old sheets, broken down cardboard boxes, or an old piece of wood. The medium can consist of anything that makes a mark, like old make-up, a piece of coal, or old nail polish. If you are making sculpture, using recycled material is fun and helps clean up the environment. Even finding artisitic value in an object that already exists is creative. The recycled art activity is not about making art, but being creative in the art making process.