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What do you do with your kids' preschool artwork?
We have a lot of cute stuff that I want to preserve/record in some way. I have two drawers full of various pieces from both of my kids but need a more permanent way to store it.
What do you do? Keep it? Scrapbook it? Toss it?
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Permalink Reply by Alicia (Alsan) on -
I toss quite a bit, with 5 kids there's just no way to keep it all. I have saved some and for now it's just in a box. I used to have 1 piece from each child framed and hung in the hallway but after 2 frames came crashing down I took down the rest. I need to replace the broken frames and find a better place to hang tthem, I really liked having the matching frames with their artwork in them and could always change out the pictures periodically.
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Permalink Reply by Jmarr on -
Sometimes I can tell that the teacher did all the work. Especially with my developmentally delayed son. I know there was no way he would follow step by step directions to make perfectly put together little holiday decorations. In that case, sometimes I would toss stuff. But one day, when he was about 5, he came home with a sheet of paper with an outline of a sheep on it. The kids were to stick cotton balls on it with glue and they had a black dot for a nose, a red thing for a mouth and googly eyes for the eyes. He came home with the cotton mostly within the lines, the eyes vertical instead of horizontal and the red tongue in an odd place...maybe on top of the head. I thought it was so adorable and I kept it!
I have tons of stuff from both kids, but especially my daughter because she loves to draw and cut. Right now it is in a big mess of a pile, and on my "to do" list. I plan on organizing it into file boxes...maybe framing a few, and laminating a few.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer L Cason on -
I save as much as I can! My daughter is only 17 months but she comes home with some kind of art work at least once a week. I have a box set aside for the things she makes. My mom saved tons of my stuff as I grew up and I love looking back on all of it now. Stuff I don't remember making and stuff I do. I cherish things like that. I can't save every single thing but I save what I want her to see when she gets older.
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Permalink Reply by Allyson Page on
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My daughter is two, and I keep most of it. Well, I do toss a lot of it as well. I've got a big plastic storage container that I throw it all into when she brings it home. The good stuff, anyway. The things that are obviously done by her teacher, as Jmarr stated previously, I toss.
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Permalink Reply by Ashley Butler on -
I toss some of it, but then then really neat stuff I save. I have it in a box in my closet. Maybe one day when he gets a little older, and goes through VPK, I will make a scrap book. I will start with preschool and then go up in age as he gets older. :) I also really need to get the thousands of pictures off my computer and put them in albums... so I can look at them periodically. I never look at them cause they are put away in my picture folder and I want to have some out so I can just open up a album and just glance when I want to.
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Permalink Reply by courtney on -
i have a box in my closet i throw all my daughters stuff in. i want to get plastic boxes so i can have 1 for each child. i figure when it gets full i'll go thru it and toss some and save some. i have all sorts of goofey things in the box. the newspapers from the day they were born. and the newspaper from the day present obama was elected. i may even have 1 more from something.
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Permalink Reply by MommyG on
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I save some, and the stuff I'm afraid to throw away, I take a digital picture of it. The really cute stuff I post on their bedroom wall: tack two nails on two sides of the wall and a nice ribbon, use colorful clothes pins to hold the artwork to the ribbon.
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Permalink Reply by Rebekah Joyce Stevens on -
I took a REALLY long piece of yarn and have it drape in their room and in my kitchen. We use clothes pins that they have also decorated and colored to clip the artwork on the yarn.
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Permalink Reply by DisneyMamaTo2 on -
Each school year I take pictures of their artwork on different colored bed sheets. Then I throw them away. The different colors signify the year and then I make a digital scrapbook.
I can't keep everything, there are a few that I love and are faves and they're in a special box under the bed, but otherwise, I pitch it after I take pictures.
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