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Have Fun with these Family Photo Projects

By Autumn Lockwood

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If you're looking for a fun way to spend time with your family and capture some memories, then you should consider having fun with photography. It's always great to take a hobby you love and share it with the people you care about, so with that in mind here are a few great ideas that your family will absolutely love.

Photo Outing

No matter where you live, it's always fun to all get together and go somewhere where everyone can focus on what they find the most interesting by taking pictures of it. The cost on this is low since it only runs you a bit of gas and a few disposable cameras, but your family will absolutely love sharing their images and looking at all the different things they saw while exploring the same location.

Scrapbook Fun

What better way to share the images that resulted from a photo outing than by creating a themed scrapbook together? Even if you didn't go on the outing, you can make a photo scrapbook of holidays, vacations, special events, or anything you want. Let the kids create picture frames out of construction paper and decorate them with markers or stickers, and then let the family decide which photos go where. When all is said and done, you'll have great memories in the scrapbook, but also great memories about making it.

Scavenger Hunt

If you live in a safe neighborhood or you trust your children to be on their own for a little while, a great activity is a photo scavenger hunt. Give each family member a list of objects to find, then let them take a disposable camera out into the world to track those objects down. You can make this activity safer by imposing a time limit - this will make it seem like a race but will also help to keep your kids on task and prevent wandering. Once everyone has returned, swing by the local photo shop and find out who won!

Photo Story

A photo story is similar to a scrapbook, but is a little bit more involved. When you create a photo story, you take pictures from a special time or event and write captions that tell the story in chronological order. New pets, family vacations, or new babies are all excellent candidates for photo stories, and if you frame each picture with construction paper and use that for the captions you can hang them in your house for everyone to see.

Documentary

It's worth noting that this project can be a bit time consuming, but it is definitely a unique and cool thing to do with your family. First you have to decide on a person to be the subject and then the other family members interview them and follow them around for a day taking pictures to help "document" their life. Like a real documentary, you want to include all kinds of informative and interesting information about the person so each family member can learn a little something new about each other. At the end of the project, you can all work together to create a fake biography or magazine article featuring the stories, interviews, and photographs.

There is really no limit to the fun and creativity you can have when you get your family involved in taking pictures. By doing any of these photo projects you'll not only get to spend some quality time with the people you care about but you'll also get to create a photo keepsake that your family can enjoy. With these fun types of activities, you'll be amazed how your loved ones still have lots of surprises to offer!

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