Make-It Topic: Photos

Imaginative:

• Set up a photo studio use old cameras and sheets for back grounds
• Have movie cameras for the children to record movies 

Language:

• Gather photos from magazines encourage the children to tell stories about the photos
• Make a cube with different photos, tell a story using the cube
• Make picture books using pictures of the children
• Use flannel boards with different photos, allow the children to make stories with the pictures
• Use photos of the children glued to popsicle sticks to make into photo puppets

Art:

• Cut out pictures of different facial features, allow the children to make faces with the pictures
• Make a photo mural with the children’s photos
• Have different shapes and mac-tac paper, allow the children to make a camera with the shapes
• Use black paper, place objects onto the paper and place them in the sun for the morning, have the children remove the objects to see the shadows (paper camera)
  

Water/Sand:

• Place magnifying glasses into the water
• Use candle crystals in the water
• Place photos to hid in the sand
• Place different objects and disposable cameras for the children to make sand pictures

Gross Motor:

• Use photos to encourage the children to make the shape in the photos
• Show pictures of children doing different actions, encourage the children to do the same action
• Go on a photo hunt
• Use different photos of objects in your house to have a treasure hunt with the children, this can go outside too

Science/Curiosity:

• Place old cameras out for the children to take apart and look at 
• Show children negatives and how they work
  

Blocks:

• Place photos of buildings, encourage the children to build the same towers
• Place out paper towel rolls, egg cartons, tissue boxes, old coffee cans for building with

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Blow up pictures of the children, punch holes into them for lacing cards
• Place pictures of their shadows to match up
• Use different color cameras to match
• Make a photo maze using a photo at one end, have the children use their fingers to get to the other photo
• Take photos of the children standing backwards and frontwards, have the children match the front to the back
• Play photo concentration

Music:

• Sing the song “Press the button”

Press the button, press the button
Click, Click, Click
I can take a pictures, I can take a pictures
What a trick, what a trick

• Use sand paper on the back of photos to rub together for music

Quiet:

• Use photos of the children cut into pieces, such as their pants, shirts and heads, use flannel on the back, allow the children to make pictures with them

Field Trips:

• Give each child a disposable camera (purchased at the dollar shop), go for a walk, allow the children to take pictures of what they want 
• Go to a store for a tour of the photo center, develop the photos from the cameras used on the walk