Digital Photography Projects: Fun Photo Projects for Kids

What can you do with your digital photos? You can do a lot. Print them professionally for traditional photo albums, dress them up with frames and save them in a scrapbook, or try a neat project that lets you go beyond what you'd normally see in a picture.

With all the websites online, there are resources galore to help you play with your photos. The tricky part is finding projects that you can do at home with the kids. There's a lot to learn from photo projects - beyond spending some serious quality time with your kids, you can learn together about technology, photography, and a variety of other "subjects" that expand on what they learn in school.

Even if you don't have any children, these are some neat projects to play with!

Five Best Photo Projects for Kids

1. Visual Dictionary

Provided by Adobe Digital Kids Club, this project is fun and creative. All that you'll need is a good dictionary - you can even look up words for free at www.dictionary.com - and a digital camera. From there, you and your child work together to create a visual illustration of random words from the dictionary.

The project as it's presented by Adobe suggests using an old dictionary that can be torn apart and images from free online sources, but it can be much more fun to look up a word online and take a walk to find images around your neighborhood, in the park, or in town that illustrate the word's meaning.

Something that might be fun to do (depending on how many children you have and how much time you want to dedicate to the project) is create a "real" dictionary from the entries your kids make. This will help them learn alphabetical order, and ends up with a printed project that everyone can enjoy - and use! Print the entries right from your computer or place them in a Word document and have them printed from a low-cost Print-On-Demand publisher.

2. Make a Movie

The more that technology advances, the less we will see the traditional format of cartoon illustration. Most of the animated cartoons and films we see today were created on a computer - but how many adults have forgotten the cool flip-books that made a series of drawings come to life?