What do you do with all your childs art?

Question

I have such a hard time throwing their things away, even if they are little scribbles! and now that my daughter is in kindergarten, it is crazy how many things she brings home everyday!
How do you decide what to keep? where do you keep it all? any creative ideas?

Answer 1

I made a scrap book and put hte pictures in there as background before placing real pictures over them

Answer 2

yes, i know what u mean. i can so easily get rid of a car but have such a tough time throwing away a piece fo paper with scribbles.

i keep them stored in a file cabinet, in the folder before all of my taxes.

someone told me to scan the pictures on the computer and then save them on disc and then throw away the hard copy. so that way u can keep everything without having alot of clutter.

Answer 3

My son is not in school yet, but I once read in Parent's Magazine that some parents take a digital pic and print it out and put it in an album so they can throw the piece away and still have the memory preserved. Also, what I am doing is saving all my pics to discs and placing them in a fire-proof safe in case we ever have a fire so we don't lose all of them.

Answer 4

i'm not a parent, but i was a prolific artist when i was a wee one. mother's solution was to create a place in the house...we called it the Great Wall of Art...where everything i brought home was displayed for one week. after that week the "gallery" was rotated and each work was given it's moment in the sun *giggle*. i think that after that mother threw most of it away, except for the ones that she really really loved. those are still stored with other keepsakes for whenever she wants to show them off. in the end, i never even wondered about where they went as long as each peice got it's week on the Wall. also i had a hand in the placement of the work and helping take stuff down. *shrug* it worked for us. whatever else you do, make sure to encourage your daughter's muse, she will never forget... cheers

Answer 5

When my daughter started preschool she also began coming home with several pieces of artwork every day. it was too much so i just started going through and saving the ones that i could tell she spent more time on and threw the simple 'scribble' ones away. i just started keeping them in a keepsake box for now...

Answer 6

for the most part i keep everything ..except the really random barely there scribbles. i have a huge binder i keep them in. you can get those clear file pocket that snap into the binder and put them in there, or just use a 3-hole punch and punch the picture itself. i do both depending on what it is. and the cards they make fit nice in the pockets on the front & back covers.

Answer 7

I have a pretty large playroom.... so I pick out my favorites, bought a ton of cheap, matching frames from Christmas tree shop, and framed them and hung them in the playroom. I've also framed a few and given them to their grandparents. A few others I hang on the fridge. And I have a scrapbook box for each of my kids that I toss a few in.

the rest I'm afraid I throw out. Can't keep them all, I have three kids, it insane!

Hope this helps!

Answer 8

I'd keep the good ones, too. Even post the holiday ones for decroations at those times. Keep most in a special box to look at one day when they've grown up.

Answer 9

When mine were little, I would display their artwork around the house, on the fridge etc.......
I was like you, I couldn't throw it out. Eventually I had like 7 shoeboxes full of paper. We went through it together, we remembered some old times, then they went out..... I kept one item per year/age.

Answer 10

I have a long piece of ribbon at the top of my wall that I hang my favorites on with clothespins and then I trade out pictures all the time. One thing you could do is make a collage out of them and frame it and hang it on your wall or make a border around the top of their room with all of them.