Rad Kids Farm Summer Camp Week II

Rad Kids Farm Camp allows kids to experience life on a farm, learn about growing food and environmental literacy, and gain exposure to farm animals, and spend time outdoors enjoying the natural world. Kids will have a chance to harvest food directly from the Rad Kids camp garden, explore the areas on and surrounding the farm, and deepen our connections to plants, the land, and one another.

What is my part? I gave the kids (6 to 11 years old) point & shoot cameras, 5 rules of composition, and an assignment everyday. I got to hang out with the kids and learn from the farmers. At the end of each day, I collected the cameras, downloaded the images, selected the best 25 images for our daily story, print them, stick them on a board and couldn’t wait for the next day to show the kids their creations.

It was an amazing experience, learning about what the kids are interested in, how many hours they could spend looking through the grass to find bugs and take pictures of them, how the camera changed their relationship with the bugs, plants and animals. The camera kept them engaged with their environment, with their leaders, the farmers, plants, bugs, animals and nature.

Everyday, I was blessed with so many surprises with my little Rad Kid Photo Bugs.

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