Letting your kids document your vacation through photo and video is one of the coolest travel parenting ideas I’ve seen floating around the internet lately. My five year old is taking after her mom’s interest in photography and can often be found “staging” dolls, food photo shoots and commanding the family dog to sit still while she snaps a photo with her iPad. I would love to see our family vacation from her eyes. Not only do kids offer a unique perspective given their shorter point of view, but I bet it would be interesting to see what things capture her attention as we go about our next family vacation. So I created a couple of photo scavenger hunts, one for our next camping trip and one that could apply to almost anywhere we go. 
You can easily create your own scavenger hunts like I did. A few tips for creating yours:
- Consider coming up with the list together, it’s a great way to find out what they’re looking forward to seeing.
- Leave a blank space for them to fill in if they see something particularly inspiring.
- Try not to be too specific with the entire list, give them room to surprise you.
- Make it unique to your destination. What do you know you might be seeing or doing?
- Keep it short. 10-15 items is plenty to inspire the kids without making it seem like a chore.
- Give bonus points for verified Bigfoot photos!
Arm them with their list and a handy point-and-shoot camera then turn them loose. When you get home it would be unique to create a scrapbook filled with the photos they marked off their scavenger list.
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Aww! I did this with my nephews the last time I was back home in Canada visiting them. We had a blast going on our own adventure like that. So fun.
That is such a fun idea. Love it! Next time I’m camping I’ll be sure to do this with my kids.
My kids would love these scavenger hunts!! I think they enjoy trips when they have things to hunt for.
This would have been great for our camping trip next summer. They acted a little board without technology.
I like the idea of the photo scavenger hunt. I can see this keeping them even more engaged than normal.