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Quarantine birthdays, family fun, social distancing and missing football are all messages from lockdown for Snapshot Kent

Quarantine birthdays, fun while staying at home and a lesson in social distancing from a six-year-old feature in your latest entries for our photo competition, Snapshot Kent.

Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, all of us have had to find new ways to connect, have fun and keep active.

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We may at times feel lonely, frustrated and anxious about the future but we're pulling together to get through lockdown and we're sharing how you've been doing it with Snapshot Kent.

Six-year-old Aarav Korde, from Pembury near Tunbridge Wells, also sent us a video along with his entry, with a lesson in social distancing for us all which he had thought up using his toy magnets.

Mum Vineeta said: "While playing with his toy magnets one day he realised how easily one can catch a virus if they don't follow the 2m guidelines. He came up with his own unique idea. He also explains that how social distancing is the best way to save our lives and protect the NHS from the virus.

"We all are going through this difficult time during COVID-19. It's very surprising to see how all these little beautiful minds also learning to cope with it and understanding through their play. The only message he wants to give to all of his friends is "Stay Home - Protect NHS - Save Lives".

Entries need to be just one snapshot, taken in your home or garden between now and the day lockdown is lifted.

Apart from that anything goes. Your picture can be candid or staged, funny or contemplative. And you've been busy showing us how you're continuing to live in lockdown across Kent.

Other entries include a sixth birthday in quarantine for young Nia in Rochester, and 12-year-old Jacob Brown's sad picture of a football on hi empty football pitch, as he is missing the sport.

See a picture gallery of some of our latest entries here:

We want Snapshot Kent to be a record of local life during this pandemic, and we will be using as many as possible to create an online gallery and in our newspapers too.

It will be a chance for us all - and future generations - all to see how the people of Kent got through these extraordinary times.

HOW TO ENTER

To share your images follow us on Instagram @kent_online, Twitter @Kent_Online and Facebook facebook.com/KentOnline and tag your posts #SnapshotKent.

You can also email pictures to us at news@thekmgroup.co.uk with Snapshot Kent as the subject. Please include a caption telling us a little bit about the image as well as your name and where you are from.

Amy Charlton had her 18th birthday cancelled due to lockdown. Her mum said: "Sensibly, she postponed every plan we had made to celebrate. This is what she thought of Covid 19."
Amy Charlton had her 18th birthday cancelled due to lockdown. Her mum said: "Sensibly, she postponed every plan we had made to celebrate. This is what she thought of Covid 19."

The picture needs to have been taken in Kent and please only send one picture per post. Send your pictures to us before lockdown ends.

The entries will be judged by the KM Group picture editor Barry Goodwin and we will have two prizes, of a £50 Love2shop vouchers one for under 16s and one for over 16s.

If you are under 16, please make sure you have your parents' permission to enter and please tell us your age on the entry.

See more of your entries here.

For ideas of things to do during lockdown click here.

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