Edit: Julie from Fumbling Through Parenthood posted this idea in June. I love her son's photos, too, especially the orange one! Look at her post here.
One beautiful September evening (I'm a bit behind, yes) Mini Me, Little Lady, and I set off for a walk with our cameras in tow. I told Mini Me that we were taking a rainbow walk and his job was to find all the colors of the rainbow around him and take pictures of what he saw. He was beyond ecstatic - I don't know if it was because of the walk, talking about rainbows, or that he got to use the camera!
We first consulted the rainbow painting we made a long time ago doing this activity. We had to make sure we remembered all the colors of the rainbow.
Next we set off on our walk. Mini Me had a joyous time snapping photos of everything! The photos here are all of his real photos. On some I just cropped it a little closer to see the color he was aiming for. I think he did a great job!
Here is our rainbow:
RED
ORANGE
YELLOW (Yellow is Mini Me's favorite color, hence all the photos of yellow things!)
GREEN
BLUE
PURPLE (We found these things right after Mini Me said, "I don't think God makes things purple.")
And here are some random photos just because I think they turned out really great. I love the little guy perspective. I need to hand him a camera more often.
As a follow-up activity, I put some of his rainbow photos in a Word document and printed them.
The goal was to cut the photos out and then use our painted rainbow as a guide to help him glue the photos in rainbow order on another paper.
Mini Me loves cutting and he did a great job.
It took us four sessions to cut all the photos and glue them in rainbow order. He enjoyed doing it, but more interesting things kept interrupting us. He had fun consulting the rainbow he painted so long ago.
We now have a double rainbow hanging on our fridge!
What a great idea!! It's so nice here today, I think I'm going to borrow this idea from you, so thank you!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea! Any excuse to get the kids out of the house is a good one in my book =-)
ReplyDeleteI would love for you to link up http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
~Beth
Great idea as usual! Your site is just full of good ideas. We certainly love exploring the outdoors in my house.
ReplyDeleteI passed on the Liebster Blog award to you today- you can see it here http://weewonderings.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-week-and-big-thank-you.html
Wow, thanks, Lisa!
ReplyDeleteBeth, I'm linked.
Hope you had fun, Jen.
:) We did that! Not sure if it was my blog where you saw it, as I'm sure I'm probably not the only one who's ever thought of it, but here's where I blogged about it. http://fumblingthroughparenthood.blogspot.com/2011/06/photo-scavenger-hunt-rainbow-style.html
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly the one, Julie! I'll edit - and thanks!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this idea! I don't have a kid friendly camera and my Nikon baby will not be put into my three year old's hands so we might have to adjust this a little for us but the idea is just great. Looks like he had a great time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to the Outdoor Play Link Up. If you are on Pinterest be sure to check out the "Outdoor Play Link Up Ideas" Board as well.
Cute idea. Just hopped over from Living Life Intentionally Linky Party. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMeg
What a great idea! My little guy would love this - he is completely in love with taking pictures. We just did a rainbow activity too! Would love for you to check it out: http://readingconfetti.blogspot.com/2011/10/noahs-ark-rainbow.html
ReplyDeleteI love all the aspects of this activity! That he took the pictures. the rainbow hunt. The cutting activity afterwards. Everything is great!
ReplyDeletethis is brilliant - thanks for linking up this week. I bet this was a fun activity to do together
ReplyDeleteI love this idea, I will have to try this in my outdoor playgroup.
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