If you have little ones in your house, then you are constantly faced with the question - what do you with all of their art?!?! Keep? Display? Toss?
I am going to do all three.
I will keep the ones that are really special to me.
I will display all of it, on a rotating basis.
And I will toss it after a while.
And before you roll your eyes at me for tossing artwork created by my kid, just imagine how many masterpieces you would have if you saved every little scrap of construction paper your child gave you. It would probably be borderline hoarder.
In our game room I have created a gallery wall - it is composed of some Miss A art and some other framed prints. I really like how her stuff is incorporated in with the other stuff. It is important to display your child's artwork, and this way I can constantly display her stuff without having to tape things to my walls or kitchen cabinets. Eek.
I made little cork board strips and I have clips and thumb tacks on hand to attach the art.
She in constantly bringing home new projects, so the wall is constantly changing. Whenever I take down a piece of art, I take a picture of it and add it to a photo book.
I love sites lite Picaboo, Shutterfly and Snapfish. I am constantly making photo books, so this seemed like a logical thing to do with her art. I have not ordered one yet, but I am planning on making one book per year.
What do you do with your child's artwork?
2 Additional Thoughts:
We host all our pictures on SmugMug, so I decided to scan all of N's art and save it there, along with saving the cutest pieces in a scrapbook. The grandparents love that they can see everything he has done and it doesn't clutter up my house!
We have a SmugMug account that we post all of our pictures to, so I decided to scan all of N's art pieces and save them there. That way grandparents can see all of it too! I save the best pieces in a scrapbook and some season pieces to display in the future :-)
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