I would love to pick a location with lots of space to walk and places to explore. I’d like to hand each kid a disposable camera and set them free to record their experiences on film. While we spend all of each day together, I’m sure their perspectives on the world would be so different from my own, and might even bring back a few glimpses of my own childhood.

I think it would be so fun to see which details of a space would attract the eye of a child, details that barely register in our own adult minds.

And, of course, I think Photoboating would qualify, too. Here are a few of the many that my daughter took when her grandma handed her the digital as they experienced the architectural tour via the river in Chicago. I included the one with all of the heads because that seemed to be a theme in the photos of my 6 year old!

What activities do you enjoy that would be interesting to see from the perspective of a child?

Update: I was informed that the first photo was not, in fact, taken by my daughter but by my sister. My bad.

Here is a third that my daughter did take.

photo credits: K. Pence and S. Aldrich

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