A Great Winter Indoor Activity For Kids
One of the best indoor activities for children during cold winter days or other nasty weather during anytime of the year is creating Digital Photo projects for them. Most kids love taking pictures and any digital camera will do in most cases. The subject matter and depth is only limited by your imagination and children's age.
A good example is doing a day in the life of Mom, or a pet, or Dad, or even the kids themselves. They can document the day or even one activity in their own way with pictures. You will be amazed at some of the ideas children come up with and how good the story can turn out. Here's a good short list of possible photo projects.
A Day in the Life of Mom
Dad's Saturday Adventures
Rover's Adventures (cat, dog, iguana, what ever pet you might have)
How To (anything within reason)
Kids love to act out any storyline, they can put on a play or make up and act out a story and document the whole shebang with pictures. One of the funniest one's our grandkids came up with was called Our House Safari and they went form room to room and took pictures and told what happens in that room. They spent all day between taking pictures and writing the stories of each room. Another really funny one was about the melting of a snowman they brought inside the house. It was small enough to fit on a pan for the melting water and they came in and took pictures about every 20 minutes to show the melting process.
There are really two different parts to the photo projects, one is actually taking the pictures and the other is creating a scrapbook that tells the story. The kids can describe the details of each picture and it is truly amazing to see what they say and think about the most subjects.
The scrapbook part can be done with a simple word processor or even online at some free photo sharing website like Google's Picasso. Many digital cameras come with software that can help upload, make changes to the photos, and make photo albums. Many are geared toward young users and can be menu driven which can easily be learned.
Depending on the age and ability of the kids, parents can participate to what ever level they want. This provides some great one on one time for both the children and their parents. These can be a group project or maybe multiple children to work as a team. There are so many positive aspects to these types of activities since you can set the rules to fit any situation.
These projects present excellent opportunities to teach children how to work together, learn new skills, and can even have some moral to the project. They get to learn a little more about any subject they choose and self-discovery is always a good way to learn new things. And the working on the computer helps with basic computer skills and is far better than shooting aliens.
Amount of supervision is up to the adults and can be adjusted as the project unfolds. And once you go through the whole process, any new photo projects can be a snap for the kids. You could even assign subjects that are educational and help the kids with whatever they are learning at school.
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A good example is doing a day in the life of Mom, or a pet, or Dad, or even the kids themselves. They can document the day or even one activity in their own way with pictures. You will be amazed at some of the ideas children come up with and how good the story can turn out. Here's a good short list of possible photo projects.
A Day in the Life of Mom
Dad's Saturday Adventures
Rover's Adventures (cat, dog, iguana, what ever pet you might have)
How To (anything within reason)
Kids love to act out any storyline, they can put on a play or make up and act out a story and document the whole shebang with pictures. One of the funniest one's our grandkids came up with was called Our House Safari and they went form room to room and took pictures and told what happens in that room. They spent all day between taking pictures and writing the stories of each room. Another really funny one was about the melting of a snowman they brought inside the house. It was small enough to fit on a pan for the melting water and they came in and took pictures about every 20 minutes to show the melting process.
There are really two different parts to the photo projects, one is actually taking the pictures and the other is creating a scrapbook that tells the story. The kids can describe the details of each picture and it is truly amazing to see what they say and think about the most subjects.
The scrapbook part can be done with a simple word processor or even online at some free photo sharing website like Google's Picasso. Many digital cameras come with software that can help upload, make changes to the photos, and make photo albums. Many are geared toward young users and can be menu driven which can easily be learned.
Depending on the age and ability of the kids, parents can participate to what ever level they want. This provides some great one on one time for both the children and their parents. These can be a group project or maybe multiple children to work as a team. There are so many positive aspects to these types of activities since you can set the rules to fit any situation.
These projects present excellent opportunities to teach children how to work together, learn new skills, and can even have some moral to the project. They get to learn a little more about any subject they choose and self-discovery is always a good way to learn new things. And the working on the computer helps with basic computer skills and is far better than shooting aliens.
Amount of supervision is up to the adults and can be adjusted as the project unfolds. And once you go through the whole process, any new photo projects can be a snap for the kids. You could even assign subjects that are educational and help the kids with whatever they are learning at school.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=John_Dow
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