We love an Instagram challenge and have discovered three that we wanted to share with you today. Whether it is bringing joy to your feed with colourful posts, finding ways to craft with items in your recycling bin or improving your account with tips from a social media expert – we hope these are a source of inspiration and positivity!

First up is the week long #CMMakingRainbows photo challenge from Cambridge Made – the Etsy Made Local team. Join in and share a photo each day that represents a different colour of the rainbow! This is a fun challenge and a great way to get to know your local artists, designers and makers:

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On Wednesday 1st April we are launching our week long instagram photo challenge. #CMMakingRainbows 🌈 We’re asking our makers to join in and create a rainbow on your grid. This challenge is inspired by all the adults and children decorating their windows with rainbows during lockdown. We’ll run through the simple guidelines of a photo challenge… Each day we’ll post a prompt (a colour) and it’s up to you to post your a photo featuring that colour on your Instagram feed. E.G if the prompt is pink, you might share a photo of your latest make, your outfit or your favourite tipple! Remember to tag your images with #CMMakingRainbows so we can scroll through and share our favourites each day here on our @cambridgemade instagram. By tagging your images, other members of our community can also check out all those fab images that you share. By the end of the week long challenge you will have posted 7 images that form a rainbow 🌈 This photo challenge is a great way to get to know the rest of your local community, find some fantastic local makers, designers and friends to follow and most importantly, it’s fun! We’re also hoping to let everyone know that despite isolation in these challenging times our members are still busy working away on some beautiful products. Screen shot this image to remind you of the daily prompts. We’ll also be posting a reminder each day 😊 Let us know is you have any questions or if you are joining in below… 👇 #cambridgemade

A post shared by The Etsy Made Local Team (@cambridgemade) on Mar 27, 2020 at 11:54pm PDT

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The second challenge is from Cambridge Art Makers – who run various creative courses at their studio based in Linton, Cambridgeshire. They have come up with a 7-day #CovidCrafting challenge! Retrieve the seven items listed from your recycling bin, get creative and share your makes. You can find plenty of inspiration on their feed:

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COVID-19 is here and whether you are in quarantine, self isolating or social distancing we thought everyone could do with a bit of creativity to encourage action, wellness and sense of remote community. We have 7 prompts for 7 days of 7 crafts you can do with things you might already have at home.  We will be posting 7 activities over the next week with tutorials for makes you can try at home with things from your recycling!  Please share your own makes and ideas too. Using the #covidcrafting be inspired by our prompts or come up with your own. Lets make this viral! (the good sort!) Remember to use #covidcrafting and tag @cambridgeartmakers so we can see your creations!  #maketimeformaking #covid19 #claimyourcreativity #creativecommunity #cambridgemakers #recycle #upcycle #creativechallenge #pandemic

A post shared by Cambridge Art Makers (@cambridgeartmakers) on Mar 14, 2020 at 9:52am PDT

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Last up is Social Pip‘s challenge which is aimed at small businesses looking to improve their Instagram account during the downtime brought about by lockdown. Pip is a Social Media Consultant based just across the border in Hertfordshire and each day is sharing a simple task you can implement. Keep an eye out for the new #PuttingThePipInSocial prompts daily in her stories:

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🌟 IT'S HERE 🌟 the 'no posting unless you want to' Instagram challenge!! Social media right now has never been more vital for your business. Now is the time, if you can't work IN your business to work ON your business.⁠⠀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀⁠⠀ Above is an outline of the focus for each day for the next 20 days. The 'task instructions' can be found each day in my stories. I'll be sure to save these as a highlight in my profile so if you miss a day or 2 or find this challenge after it's started no worries, you won't get left behind!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ I'll aim to have the 'task instructions' up in my stories before midday each day but as I'm also doing the whole homeschooling thing please bear with me if it's a bit later than this sometimes!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ I'm very much hoping this challenge will give you and your small business the boost 🚀 you might well be needing right now. My DMs are open for questions as always throughout the challenge and if you do happen to post either on your 'grid' or in your stories don't forget to tag me and use the #PuttingThePipInSocial hashtag!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #instagramtips #instagramtipsandtricks #instagrammarketing #instagrammarketingtips #instagramforbusiness #instagramhelp #smallbusinessessentials #uksmallbiz #digitalmarketinguk #smallbusinesstips #smallbusinesssupport #smallbusinessmarketing⁠⠀⁠⠀ #smallbusinessmarketingtips #freesocialmediatips #learnsomethingnew #smallandmightybusiness #hitchin #hitchintown #hitchinbusinesses #stalbans #hertford #bedfordshire #cambridge #hertfordshire #hertfordshirebusiness #hertsbusiness #socialpip

A post shared by Pip •Social Media For Smallbiz (@socialpip) on Mar 25, 2020 at 3:09am PDT

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Are you taking part in an Instagram challenge we haven’t listed? Let us know in the comments below – and if you join in with any of these above be sure to tag @thetrove_cambridge so that we can follow along!

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