My kids love taking pictures. They will take pictures on my cell phone, or their inexpensive cameras. I love that I can then see the world through their eyes. I might not notice the flowers growing under a bush or the tiny little flowers growing in the ground cover in our side yard. They’re so willing to crawl or lay on the ground to get a picture of whatever they see. Teaching photography to my kids seems like a natural way to encourage them to explore their world more.
Teaching Photography in Your Homeschool
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My kids see me taking pictures all the time, of them, things they do, and for this site. Seeing it makes them want to do it, monkey see, monkey do right?
My oldest has an inexpensive point and shoot camera that we bought for vacation once and she uses quite often. We had a bit of fun with them last spring/summer once the weather was nice enough to get out and actually sit on the ground without getting soaked.
We had checked out some great books from the library to give us a ideas, and kinda of a way to lead them into learning about about photography, and as a bonus, I could learn more too.
Maker Projects for Kids Who Love Photography – I am getting this one again!
BUT I am not a professional photographer no matter how great I think it would be to be one, so I wasn’t really great at teaching them how to take great, or even good, photos. I tried, but, we all have our strengths right?
Techie Homeschool Mom has the Photography Cub starting soon and I might just sign us up too. We can learn together.
Registration is September 28-October 7. The early bird gets a 25% discount!
- You’ll register your family for the Techie Homeschool Photography Club.
- You’ll sign up for the Photography 4 Kids course on Udemy
- For 6 weeks, you’ll log into the Techie Homeschool Photography Club to discover a new lesson.
- Kids will upload their photos from the week and give each other feedback.
- Kids will read books and watch videos to learn about the history of and careers in photography.
- Kids will use webtools to complete projects with their photos. They’ll learn about photo-editing, graphic design and video creation.
- Everyone will connect with other homeschool families who also have an interest in photography.
Austin has been asking about doing some graphic design and video creation so this will be right up her ally, kids are more and more into technology, and with it all around us in life, why not let them learn under your guidance and the right way.
Hey Ashely, great post!
I agree with you. The world is becoming more and more visual and soaking the kids in photography is a great idea. This is a great hobby but they can also choose to go professional with it. The video creation part is great, too. Simply put, people are doing less and less reading and are shifting to video so mastering this skill would put one at an advantage. Look at Facebook. You will discover that the posts that are getting the most engagement are of the video variety.
I have been trying to encourage my boys to try out photography too and I think they have quite a natural eye for it. Like you said they are so much more willing to crawl around to get that perfect shot.