photography projects for kids

February 17, 2010

photography projects for kids

I wrote about the basics of introducing a camera to your preschooler earlier this year. Here are some photography projects to try to keep your child interested and improving …

have a scavenger hunt – find things that are blue, things that start with the letter G, things with wheels, you get the idea
take pictures and create a photo book (similar to a scavenger hunt but with a book product)– for example take photos for a counting book, a book about colours or take photos of groups of objects and create an “I Spy” book
have your child document a day in their life
take photos during a special outing and write a story to accompany the pictures, at the end of this post you can see the story my son and I created after visiting a local wildlife park.
have your child take photos of the same subject using a variety of different angles
take photos of the members of your family to create a family tree

You can also create some amazing products with photos taken by your child. Here are some ideas …

print the photos and make albums or photobooks
frame their best photos
email photos to family and friends or post them on a blog (for example, my son and I wrote about our visit to a wildlife park and emailed it to our family – you can see the story below)
photo printing services can put a photo on a t-shirt, or a bag, a cup, a keyring, just about anything really
print a photograph (for the best results at a large size)and cut it up to create a photo puzzle. For more fun, you could use these instructions from Photojojo to create a photo puzzle to be sent piece by piece through the mail and put together at the other end.
mix and match photos to create a funny photo book, instructions are here at the HP website
upload some photos to Flickr. You can then use tools such as those at BigHugeLabs to create fun things with your photos, such as mosaics, magazine covers or a pop art poster.

Here is a photo project my son and I made recently. We used photos we took at a visit to a local wildlife park to write a story about our trip to send to relatives.