Your final four challenges are below!
What an amazing month it has been!
Have your sunflowers started to sprout? We’d love to see them!
It’s time to get into the final week of challenges, we have another Flash Challenge for you this week and don’t forget it’s almost time to submit your entry for our GRAND PRIZE too!
Once you've completed this week's challenges, you're all set to finalise and submit your entry into the grand prize - an Australian dream holiday valued at $4,000!
Check out the entry requirements on the prizes page by following the link below.
Onto the Challenges!
Challenge One
For your first challenge of the week, we’re bringing back a popular classic.
Find a hill with deliciously smelling, freshly cut grass and get rolling!
For a successfully completed challenge, get a video or photo of the whole family rolling and racing down the hill! Full speed ahead!
Challenge Two
Create a fleet of paper planes and see which flies the furthest!
Use crayons or markers to colour in the outside of your plane with stripes, shapes and logos - you’ll need to know whose plane belongs to who!
Then, everyone must line up together and see whose plane can fly the furthest.
Capture them on camera soaring through the air!
For origami enthusiasts…
If you’re enjoying all this paper folding and you’re a bit of a natural, we’ve found some simple origami tutorials for you, with the glorious spring feels in mind!
Click here for a butterfly tutorial
Click here for a rabbit tutorial
(For those who bought our kit, now’s the time to use your origami pack!)
Challenge Three
Everyone loves fresh flowers and the most colourful flowers bloom in spring!
Pop on a hat and some sunscreen and head out for a walk around the neighbourhood in search of wonderful wildflowers.
Tip - head down laneways, the railway, to the beach or river - and don't be limited by flowers - leaves, seedpods, branches and dried grasses can look beautiful in a vase!
Pick a bunch and see if you have any ribbons lying around to wrap them into a bouquet - now take a picture of them being gifted to someone special.
Keep some for yourselves though!
Why not try some flower pressing? Place them inside a heavy book for a few days, then create spring collages with them. Or, you could even make a flower headbands and bracelets :)
Flash Challenge
Play to win an epic ice-cream maker and tool set, together valued at $280!
Now for a spooktacular final challenge!
It’s Halloween weekend so it would be rude not to get involved with some spooky vegetable carving fun!
Grab some pumpkins from your local supermarket or experiment with other fruits and veggies!
For the little ones…get painting instead!
For a completed challenge, post a photo of the whole family with their spooky creations!
Kit customers, if you have resisted the delicious brownie DIY kit so far, cook them up for a Halloween Special treat!
Hurray! 🎉
You’ve completed the Family Fun Challenge Month - Spring Edition
It’s time to submit your entry for the GRAND PRIZE!
Submitting your entry is easy! Simply create your '1 Second Everyday' video collage of your 20 challenges. Head to our ‘Prizes’ page to find out more, including where to send your entry. Submit your entry by the 3rd November!
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Don’t forget the weekly prize is still up for grabs; head over to Instagram on the link below to share your weekly Flash Challenge:
Head back to the home screen where you’ll find the links to previous weeks challenges and our weekly winners.
We hope you an amazing month - we’ll back in 2022 for another epic Couples Quest!
Photography Tips
Want some advice on how to take the best photo?
Give these ideas a try.
Unless you are capturing a backdrop or large piece - try getting in close. Fill the frame with your subject to avoid too much wasted space!
Be aware of backgrounds - don’t let things like garbage bins or a passerby ruin your shot if you don’t want to intentionally include them in it! Change your angle or wait until people have passed by. It will be worth it!
See The Light! Take note of where the light is coming from - does it cast interesting shadows on your subject that you may want to capture or does it just hide the detail you need? Move around to find the best lit angle.
Using the flash isn’t just for night time - sometimes a bright day may create harsh shadows that you don’t like, so using the flash may allow a more even exposure.
Laugh, don’t smile...a well-timed joke will often lead to a more natural looking shot of your subject rather than a forced ‘cheese’
Try framing - is there something you could use to frame your focal point - e.g by shooting through a window or archway?
Keep it simple - try not to pack too much into your shot. Try focusing on one or two points of interest per shot.