Daycare moms - what do you do with "art" projects?

true_norskie

I have kept the "projects" that DD has done with her hand and foot prints on them.  I haven't kept much else.  I feel like a terrible mom. 

But seriously, sometimes they hand DD a piece of paper and a marker at the end of the day to keep her entertained.  They then put the "drawing" in her folder to take home.  We put some of them on the fridge to encourage her artistic side but then throw them.

Do we need to keep all the scribble art?  What do you keep.

crazynervous

A friend of mine saves them each month and then takes a picture her child with all the projects. Then throughs the projects out.  She might save some of the really special ones.

amiamish

I lay them out and take a picture, then upload it to my photo account online. HOWEVER-- Jake made these really cute turkeys out of a pinecone, I'm keeping that.

katie277s

I run into this problem as well.  I take a few to work each week to hang at my desk.  We put some on the fridge and I hang a few in his room.  Other than that, I get rid of them.  I hate to do it, but I would need a storage unit if I were going to keep them all!

femmegem

I take photos of them and post them in my blog. I hold onto them for awhile, too. I've been really bad about this since we moved, though. Most of his latest projects are sitting in the car or around the house and I haven't done anything to record them. I should do that soon so they don't get destroyed first.

xbrooklyngrl

I stick them in a drawer.

DevonPow

Right now we keep them all, but he only started daycare 3 months ago   I bought one of those professonial art portfolios (small one, with plastic sheeting), so I can easily slip them in there and can put multiple drawings in each pocket. The book was only $25 and holds a ton - I am toying with just keeping one for each year...we will see if that works.

 Oh, and the ones that are just a few scribbles I say "nice job Henry!" and then slyly toss it.

JulieandBen

I have a large empty wall in my kitchen near the laundry room that I hang them up on with earthquake putty. I replace them after a while with new ones. I recently bought an art portfolio from a kid's toy website that has dividers that I plan on putting them in separated by year. I throw some of the coloring book pages with crayon scratches on them away. I keep all hand, feet art and most other pieces as well.

august0605bride

I SAH, but Harry goes to nursery school one morning a week and always comes home with art. ?We put it on the door to his toy room.

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stacynikki

Ummm....throw them out.  I guess that makes me a bad mom but I honestly don't want to save them just to throw them out years later.  Especially since it's mostly just scribble.  I'm not very sentimental in that way I guess!

VivaAmore

I'll hang those up for a bit but I don't keep them. I only keep the structured art projects that they do and after I'm done displaying them, they go into one of those plastic bins which she'll inherit when she moves out 16 years from now. 

rebs

I keep the ones that are really special or cute, otherwise they get chucked.  There will be TONS of this stuff coming through the door in the next few years.  I have a 3 inch binder and plastic sheet protectors I put the ones I want to keep in.  I am limiting myself to 10 items a year.  I want to have that one binder be the work of my child all the way through school.  I think that would be a neat thing to give them when they graduate high school.

ready2go

if they're cute/detailed/involved, we usually hang them on the fridge for a while, and then either move to a box (to keep longer) or pitch them after that.  Like others, some of dd's "art" is scribbles on a piece of paper.  I don't think I need 400 pieces of scribbed paper.  If she traces her hand and colors around it or does something "special", we keep it.