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Kid art- organizing
How do you organize your kid art?
I have a stack and DS is just in daycare! My mom used to put stuff between mattresses...I'm not going that route just yet...
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Re: Kid art- organizing
Recent art goes on the fridge. As I rotate new art in,
I photograph items I want to remember but don't keep.
I put all items I want to keep in a box (and photograph those, too). The box is on a shelf in the closet.
Occasionally, I go through that box and throw away some of those items.
DS brings maybe 2-3 items home a week! I look, smile, then throw them away.
I do save a few things - like if it has a handprint on it, or it's a special card to me (like for mother's day), etc. But if it's just paint smeared on construction paper, or cotton glued onto a plate - the trash it goes. I don't mean to be cold-hearted, but I would much prefer to save room for artwork that he has actually remembers, or that he can tell me what it is - if that makes any sense.
The special ones/the ones they're really excited about go on the fridge. The rest go in a drawer. Then at the end of the school year, I sift through and keep the special ones. There are also some really cool ones that I'm setting aside to be framed. I'm really excited about that.
You can also scan them and make a photo book of them with shutterfly or whomever. Then you still can look at them, but you don't have to have the physical art taking up space.
Some of my favorites include art that isn't so special but how she describes it IS. I'll write down how she described it and date it and that is a keeper. But I like the idea of photographing some of the extras.
Maddie has 3-4 pieces every single day (has been as much as 20-30 to go through at the end of every week). There is no way they can all be kept without turning into a hoarder. :-)
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
Stuff from daycare I mostly threw away.
Her Kindergarten teacher did a really cool thing and kept 1 art project per kid per month. At the end of the year she laminated them and put them on 2 rings so we had a little laminated flip book of some things she did that year. It's really neat and organized!
I like the photo idea! Her stuff from 1st grade I'm keepin a few things and am planning on doing what her Kindy teacher did.
Collin Thayne 10.11.2010