Children in our nursery enjoyed turning a small area in our setting into a photographic studio. We have always had cameras in our home corner, but the project stemmed from the children's interest in photographs that had been taken in the setting and in photographs included in displays.
The studio provided an excellent stimulus for investigation and exploration across a wide range of activities.
We began by putting up a notice asking parents and carers to lend us old and unwanted cameras with which the children could take pretend pictures.
Dressing-up
We then provided a dressing-up box full of all sorts of clothes (adult-sized jackets, trousers, scarves, shawls), hats (helmets, woolly hats, sun hats, peaked caps, even a tiara), shoes and boots and jewellery (mostly necklaces and bracelets).
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