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Photography Games for children to do at home

During this lockdown, I was honoured to be invited from Kate of Hello Mums to one of her coffee breaks.

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1 So what photography activities could you do with your children at the moment?
1.1 N.1 is surely a Photo Scavenger Hunt!
1.2 N.2 Photograph Toys and Make a Story Book
1.3 N.3 Stop motion videos

She asked me to talk about how children can use photography in their activities. You can watch the chat here

https://fb.watch/4Exl6jzbs0/

But just in case you don’t have time to watch it now I will quickly sum up.

Are you ready?

So what photography activities could you do with your children at the moment?

N.1 is surely a Photo Scavenger Hunt!

This is funny, kids of every age will enjoy it, I’m sure.

  • Prepare a list with objects to photograph. I would suggest about 5-6 to start with if you have a toddler and about 15 for school-age children.
  • For toddlers and children who cannot read yet use colours, shapes or simply draw (or print out) things they are familiar with and have to look for.
photography-games-for-children-list of objects to photograph
  • For older children, you can get more creative! You know your children best so you will know how to challenge them. You can write a specific list of object you can find around the house (or/and garden), you can ask for objects starting with a specific letter or of a specific shape. Or you can ask to photograph two things that thyme together. This will get their brain to work! 😉
  • If there are siblings get them both involved! Maybe one could photograph a list of things but only a little detail and the other one has to guess what it is! This could be quite fun!
photography games for children: girl photographing an item from a photo scavenger hunt.
My daughter had surely fun running around to find and looking for all the items

N.2 Photograph Toys and Make a Story Book

Ask your child to grab his/her favourite toy and to go on an adventure!

Allow your child to take the lead and come up with a great plot, taking the toy around the house or in the garden or out to your daily walk.

Take photos while your child is holding teddy and jumping off the couch saying “let’s fly Teddy!” or a photo while Mr Dinosaur is chasing a little toy car and your child is narrating the scene.

Remember what they say and then go to Canva (it’s free), upload the photos and add your child’s lines and some funny stickers. Then print it out and you will have a wonderful personalised book to read a bedtime.

I think this is a great idea esecially for the little one!

N.3 Stop motion videos

This is the grown up version of the previous activity. While little one will take a toy for an adventure, school-age children can create their own movie independently!

They could use an app called Stop Motion or I believe Lego has a similar feature in its app.

But even a slideshow of the different photos they take with special filters and effects is surely something that will keep them busy for a while 😉

I hope this blog gave you some ideas and you are now inspired to try something out. And show me the photos tagging me on the social media!

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After 15 years, this is still how I do it. Every time.
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Tomorrow I have a newborn session and a 1:1 training day with a photographer travelling from Switzerland to spend the day with me. But before any of that, the work had already started. It starts with a conversation. Learning about your birth, your family, how things have been since you came home. Then comes the studio prep, making sure the space is warm, clean and ready for someone very new to the world, with attention to every small thing that makes a family feel safe and held. After 15 years, this is still how I do it. Every time. That same care is what I pass on when I teach. If you are a parent looking for a photographer who takes this seriously, or a photographer thinking about training, this is what I stand for. 📩 Links in bio for both.

She almost didn’t come.

She told me she wasn’t feeling confident.
That she didn’t know how to pose.
That maybe I should photograph someone else.

I hear this more than you’d think. From women who are more reserved and introvert but also the ones who are funny and so alive in person. Women who have simply spent too long seeing themselves in a fixed way.

We spent a morning together. Just her, the light, and a space where nothing needed to be fixed or hidden.

The woman in these photos? She was there all along.

If you’ve been telling yourself a similar story, I’d gently ask you this: what if you’re wrong too?

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She almost didn’t come. She told me she wasn’t feeling confident. That she didn’t know how to pose. That maybe I should photograph someone else. I hear this more than you’d think. From women who are more reserved and introvert but also the ones who are funny and so alive in person. Women who have simply spent too long seeing themselves in a fixed way. We spent a morning together. Just her, the light, and a space where nothing needed to be fixed or hidden. The woman in these photos? She was there all along. If you’ve been telling yourself a similar story, I’d gently ask you this: what if you’re wrong too?

This is the part that gets me every time.

Seeing the images inside the album, in print, held in your hands, is completely different to seeing them on a screen.

They become real in a way a digital file never quite manages.

This little one will grow so fast.

But these pages will stay exactly as they are.

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This is the part that gets me every time. Seeing the images inside the album, in print, held in your hands, is completely different to seeing them on a screen. They become real in a way a digital file never quite manages. This little one will grow so fast. But these pages will stay exactly as they are. Newborn photography in Richmond and Twickenham.

It never gets old.

Every time one of your albums arrives at my door it feels a little like Christmas morning. There is something about holding it for the first time, knowing what is inside, knowing what it meant to be in that room with you.

If I feel this way, I can only imagine what it feels like for you.

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It never gets old. Every time one of your albums arrives at my door it feels a little like Christmas morning. There is something about holding it for the first time, knowing what is inside, knowing what it meant to be in that room with you. If I feel this way, I can only imagine what it feels like for you. Follow along, the next reel shows what’s inside. Newborn and maternity photography in Richmond and Twickenham.

Every mum knows this feeling.

I know it too. I still remember the first time I held my daughter.
So tiny. So new.
And yet somehow, already familiar. Like I had always known her, in some place deeper than memory.

She is 14 now. And I would give anything to hold that small weight against my chest one more time.

This is why I do what I do.
Not just to make beautiful images. But to give you something to hold onto, long after those first days have passed.

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Every mum knows this feeling. I know it too. I still remember the first time I held my daughter. So tiny. So new. And yet somehow, already familiar. Like I had always known her, in some place deeper than memory. She is 14 now. And I would give anything to hold that small weight against my chest one more time. This is why I do what I do. Not just to make beautiful images. But to give you something to hold onto, long after those first days have passed.
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LONDON NEWBORN & MATERNITY PHOTOGRAPHER

Based in Richmond, I work with families across London to capture life’s most meaningful milestones through portrait photography.