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The creative folks at Photojojo have come up with the Super-Secret Photo Projects Just for Kids! which is wittily subtitled, “Back Off, Grownups.” They have three great project/shot suggestions,

1. Getting down low (bug’s eye-view).
2. Using perspective to make one person look miniature and the other gigantic (photo-shrink ray).
3. Taking photos of everything and one in your life for a week (photo time capsule).

These are all great ideas, but the genius of the piece is that it written directly to kids, so assuming Photojojo is unblocked in your district, you can have the kids read it themselves. Each suggestion gives easy-to-understand how-to tips written to kids. They even wrap the pitch around the idea of being like a super hero with secret powers. Brilliant idea, brilliantly pitched. If you’re looking for a foot in the door to introduce students to photography, this is it. Here are a couple of shot ideas of my own:

• Panorama: stand in one spot taking a single photo, and then take 1/8th turn until you go around an entire circle.
• Giant’s eye-view: carefully take your camera up to the top of a play structure (stick to the part you can walk to and stand on), and look down and take pictures. -ALICE MERCER

Super-Secret Photo Projects Just for Kids!

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