Have you seen the latest Mission Impossible movie where Tom Cruise crawls out of a window in a super, super, super high hotel and climbs up several stories to another room?
And he does it with gloves that have special ‘sticking’ power?
I knew it was just a movie.
I knew that Tom Cruise wouldn’t fall and plunge to the ground because he was the main character and he couldn’t die so early in the movie.
But still. Those scenes so high above the ground made. My. Stomach. QUEASY!
This next photography game that you can play with your grandchildren is called Mission 24 – based on the Mission Impossible movies. You won’t have to climb a building hundreds and hundreds of feet above the ground.
(Thank goodness – or else I wouldn’t play this game.)
Here’s how it works.
Grandma chooses a word and tells her grandchildren. They have 24 hours to take a picture of something that illustrates the word. (Encourage your grandchildren to be creative and clever.)
For example, let’s say that you choose the word ‘five.’ Your grandchildren could take a picture of five buttons, five trees, or five baby kitties.
To be more creative, your grandchild could take a picture of only five stripes on a flag, or five bricks in a brick building, or five stores in a strip mall. To be clever, they could take a picture of five bare feet or tiles from Scrabble whose points add up to five.
If you have a blog where you and your grandchildren share pictures or a Flickr group, have your grandchildren upload their picture. If you don’t have one, have them e-mail you their picture.
I just had a thought. If you play these photography games, you could collect the best pictures and make a photo book through an online site such as Shutterfly. You could print up copies of the book for everybody who played and give the books as birthday or Christmas gifts.
Have fun taking pictures!
