Get creative with the camera and the kids this week.
Photo © Apryl Duncan
This gets the letters to pop in the photo because they come out of the printer shiny. Plus, it makes them more durable than printing the letters on regular paper since little hands will be grabbing them.
Turn on your camera, and snap pictures of the kids with a letter ... in the background, in their hands, etc. You'll need one picture per letter. Use this larger picture of a finished photo collage as a guide.
Photos around the house work great. Take natural shots of the kids playing dolls, but sneak in a letter behind them. Snap shots above them while they color, as one of the letters just happens to be scattered among their coloring pages.
After you've taken all of your shots, it's time to lay them out. Many photo sites have a collage template, or you can design your own.
I used Photoshop to design our collage as an 8x10 photo. I then uploaded the file to Walgreens.com, used a coupon code for a free 8x10 and ordered my photo collage. In an hour, I had the collage in my hands and ready for framing.
It's a fun project that makes a wonderful keepsake. And it's so easy, you can create one each year to show how much the kids have grown.
It's a perfect winter activity for kids that engages their creativity. Just watch them run through the house coming up with ideas on where you should take their picture next!
More Winter Activities:
- Winter Activity #1 - Kids' Building Projects
- Winter Activity #2 - Indoor Hopscotch
- Winter Activity #3 - Make a Wall Canvas
- Winter Activity #4 - Take Flight
- Winter Activity #5 - Shoot an "I Love You" Photo Collage
- Winter Activity #6 - Create an "I Ruff You" Foam Dog
- Winter Activity #7 - Play a Life-Sized Board Game
- Winter Activity #8 - Turn Your House Into a Movie Theater
- Winter Activity #9 - Create a Website With Your Kids
- Winter Activity #10 - Explore Cultures of the World