Give the kids a camera!

It's the dog days of August and I'm becoming more and more creative planning fun for our favorite six year old, Paul, and his friend, Cassidy.  Last week, My dad visited with my twelve year old sister, Savannah.  She and Cassidy, ten, were fast friends.  The two wanted a camera to take souvenir photos.  I have a photo printer; the kids took loads of shots.  Cassidy was taking photos this morning and it occurred to me to lend a camera to Paul.  I set the digital to 'auto'.  Cassidy gave him a few pointers; she is a natural and has an artist's eye.  So, get a used digital camera at Good Will or dig up an old one from the closet.  (I had two old digital cameras on hand.)  Show the kids how to take a few shots.  Ours have SD cards.  So, I showed both kids how to eject the card from the camera, load it on the laptop, and copy the photos.  We attached their photos to emails to send.  Here are a few of their pictures.