plant journal

Grow a plant alongside daily journaling! Each day draw an “observational” doodle of your plant and roll a dice to get Grow Points that give you data on how your plant is growing. Use an empty page to create your garden. You can decorate the edges of the page and add some features to your garden like a bird feeder or a fountain. Just be sure you have space for the plants! Once a plant is fully grown, you can then “replant” it into the garden. The goal is to fill up your garden with many different kinds of plants! Tip: If you already keep a journal, just add this game to your journal. You can create a garden page in your journal or somewhere else. This game is great for a daily journal where you have a whole page to use for a plant doodle and the points score. TOOLS D6 D20 (suggested but is optional) Writing utensil Paper Sticky note (optional) INSTRUCTIONS Create a Garden Page to which you can move your grown plants. Use a journal, a notebook or a sheet of paper to calculate a plant’s Grow Points every day. Don’t forget to draw your plant’s observational sketches! Tip: You can keep track of the Grow Points on a sticky note. Grow Points (1d6) 1 — Dying (-1 GP) 2 — Stagnant (+0) 3 — Growing (+1 GP) 4 — Growing (+2 GP) 5-6 — Growing (+3 GP) Roll a 1D20 (if you don’t have one, roll a 4D6 instead) and get the Total Grow Points you must reach for a plant to be fully grown. Roll a 1D6 to get the base Grow Points your seed will start with. Roll a 1D6 each day and consult the Grow Points chart to start growing your plant. Add each day’s Grow Points together with the previous total. Once you reach the total points amount for the plant, you can move it into the Garden page. If the total amount of Grow Points reaches negative one (-1), the plant dies. ATTRIBUTES Suggestions for how your plant can look and feel. Roll a 1D20 and choose one (1) attribute from the corresponding row. Feel free to add to this one or create your chart with attributes instead! (View them in the downloaded files.) JOURNALING PROMPTS My personal form of journaling is mainly a task tracker with minimal writing but this year (2023) I have also added a daily planner. Here I usually write down sentences with little remarks about things I’ve done almost reminiscent of tweets. I also have a brain dumb journal I use occasionally too. This game may be best for a daily or weekly planner but however you journal or whatever your journaling system is, I thought it’d be good to give some prompts! (View them in the downloaded files.) There is no real printable version beyond the PDF version as the ZINE version was created on a large sheet of paper.