A toy camera from recycled objects

Luath enjoys looking at photos and videos on my camera, which we let her do with close supervision.  I protect all our images so she can’t accidently erase them.  Recently she has started to pretend to take photographs with the camera or with a few other objects.  I decided to make her a camera mostly from recycled objects.



Materials
A small cardboard box
A milk bottle lid
A juice bottle lid
Two tin foil cases (saved from daddy’s mince pies)
A plastic fruit carton
Paper
Sellotape or glue
Scissors
Colouring pens

What we did (mostly by me but Luath helped)

I covered the box with paper.  I added a second colour on the front and sides.  (You could choose to paint the box instead)

Next I covered the two lids with tin foil.  The milk lid was to be the camera lens and the smaller juice lid was the camera’s button.  I then attached the two lids to the camera. 
    
Using the plastic fruit carton I cut a piece that was slightly smaller than the camera’s back and attached it to the camera leaving the top section open.

Next I cut some pieces of paper that would fit into the plastic section on the camera’s back.  I drew different images onto each piece of paper to use as photo images.
 
Luath had great fun with her own camera.  Although often she would have the lens facing herself as she asked us to say “cheese”.  She always had to add the “click” sound as she took the photograph.

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(Luath is 24 months)