Should You Save All Your Kids' Arts & Crafts Projects?

March 15, 2011, By 1 comment

Should You Save All Your Kids' Arts & Crafts Projects?

So the big question—what to do with all that cute art the kids produce? Truth is, my mom saved most of my school art projects in dusty boxes in the basement. While that’s one way to do it, that’s not the best way to do it in 2011.

Once the kids are off to daycare or school, or if you enjoy glue and paints and crayons around the house during these cold and wet days of winter, the volume of arts and crafts you will have around explodes.

Kids love art. And a proud parent appreciates it, but what do you do with it? Here are four great ways to keep your kids’ art without keeping it all over the place

1. Frame Up Your Favorites.

A simple trip to Ikea can get you a variety of value frames. It may just be a messy finger paint or collection of glued scraps, but once properly framed and hung, it looks as if it belongs in a fine art museum. (Seriously, have you seen the scribbles they have hanging in some of those places?)

2. Get A Pro Portfolio.

Visit a professional art store and get a large portfolio book to keep the art. The large binder is big enough to keep the larger pieces flat and dry and preserved. Don’t forget to write the date on the back of each piece.

Next: Scan or Digitize the Rest

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Comments (1):

Tara W. I saved every slip of paper my kids brought home from preschool thru eigth grade. I collected them in document boxes by grade. I know this seems excessive. But I had/have nothing from my childhood and I wanted my kids to have items from theirs. You would think that my kids would think that I was nuts--and they did while they were in school. But now my 29 year old son is married with a daughter of his own and when I mentioned pitching the boxes because no one seemd to have touched his in over ten years he got really upset and said "NO" he wants his daughter to have access to his childhood papers when she is old enough. My daughter who is 26 insists on keeping them as well. There have been time when she has just gone to the basement and looked thru the boxes for the afternoon. During the years that I stowed these papers away, my husband accused me of being a hoarder, but when I suggested that we pitch the boxes he freaked out and said "those aren't ours to throw away, those are the kids things and we can't throw them away unless the kids say it OK." - 06/18/2011

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