Inquiring minds would like to know...
What do you do with all of your kid's artwork and papers?
How do you store them?
Do you keep the best and throw the rest away?
What do you do with all of your kid's artwork and papers?
How do you store them?
Do you keep the best and throw the rest away?
My problem: I currently have no system for storage and that is made obvious by the stack of papers that is growing on a cabinet in my home. I am not afraid of throwing things away...if I didn't I would have about 20 times the amount of stuff that I have now.
So, please enlighten me...and the rest of my 4 readers. What do you do?
So, please enlighten me...and the rest of my 4 readers. What do you do?
7 comments:
Ya this is a toughy. I have a display piece hanging on a wall that says "look what we made" and it has clips that their stuff hangs from. We are constantly replacing the artwork that goes up there with the new stuff that they are currently proudest of (me too).
If there is something I love that they made and I know I want to keep it then I put it away in a box of their special things.
I'm like you tho, I have no problem throwing things away. I never do it in front of them of course. It's mostly church sheets and stuff that we get rid of.
Good question--I'll be curious to hear what people say. Each of my kids has a keepsake box into which I've been putting the best pieces. We throw the rest out after they've sat around (or been on the refrigerator) awhile. But the keepsake boxes are filling up rapidly, too, so we're going to have to figure out a new system.
I think you should post the good answers--I need help!
We have a string that we hang art work on by our front door. We try to put more recent works up. Kevin then files it away into some sort of system.
However, we cannot keep up with a now kindergartner. She brings home a mountain each week and cannot bare to throw any away. We have a basket under a coffee table where we put it and plan to toss the stuff one day when she isn't looking...
Anything that they do regularly I keep the first and last of the year and get rid of the rest. That way you see progress. (coloring, numbers, letters) I often send pictures to family far away in a card. That way I am not trowing it away, just sharing it!
I do a few different things because I'm a bit of a sucker for budding creativity. We have a display area above their art table where they can hang their most recent art. Some get sent to grandparents and other family. My favorites are hung in my laundry room. My vision is that eventually that room will be "wallpapered" with my children's artwork. Nothing fancy... you can use pushpins if you don't care about holes or sticky tack if you do. The last thing I do with my kids stuff is either scan it or, if it's too big to scan, take a picture of it with the intentions of making a digital scrapbook of their creative highlights through the years.
I have rubbermaid containers I keep in the garage. I don't have a problem throwing things out either. There is just too much. But last year I kept a binder for the stuff that would fit in there and hung the other stuff in Evan's room. But it's hard. And it's hard for me to decide what to keep and what to throw. Right now I have this great entryway table with drawers and baskets underneath. The drawers fit the regular papers and the basket fits the big stuff. So I'm loving it right now because I don't have to do anything with it until the drawer and basket fills up. And no one sees the clutter.
I heard about this one time, take a picture of it and then make a shutterfly book out of it. someone told me that once.
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