Tell me how you organize/save your child's artwork?

Re: Tell me how you organize/save your child's artwork?

• kittycarr

  July 2011

  will anxiously wait an answer so i know what to do with all of my kids stuff too!

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• SuperCuteBenz member

  July 2011

  I take pictures of the artwork, and then put the picture into an album.
  

  

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• DandelionMom

  July 2011

  SuperCuteBenz:

  I take pictures of the artwork, and then put the picture into an album.
  

  I keep meaning to do this. 

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• DallasHorn member

  July 2011

  SuperCuteBenz:

  I take pictures of the artwork, and then put the picture into an album.
  

  Yep, I've heard of this...but call me old fashion, I think it looses something by just taking a picture of it. My mom saved some of my artwork from my early childhood and it's so neat to hold it/touch it, hence I'd really keen to actually keep it as is.

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• SuperCuteBenz member

  July 2011

  DallasHorn:

  SuperCuteBenz:

  I take pictures of the artwork, and then put the picture into an album.
  

  Yep, I've heard of this...but call me old fashion, I think it looses something by just taking a picture of it. My mom saved some of my artwork from my early childhood and it's so neat to hold it/touch it, hence I'd really keen to actually keep it as is.

  Are you saving everything?

  Why don't you take pictures of most of it and keep your favorites? I don't have room to keep all of my DD's stuff, and honestly the stuff of mine that I do have, is all faded and falling apart. So, I would rather my mom have taken pictures of it.
  

  

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• Mrs Manners member

  July 2011

  I'm thinking of scanning and making a photobook. But I'm lazy and haven't done it yet.

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• JillShari member

  July 2011

  As a scrapbooker myself, I have taken to scanning in what artwork I can and then photographing anything larger and that way I have photos of everything he has done at school that comes home...even from preschool and then when I scrapbook it, I can just print out tiny pics like filmstrip and put a lot on the school pages.  So, on my laptop, I have a folder under photos for each school year with all artwork photos.

   And I do keep some of the pieces that mean something in a folder like this:  it's called My Keepsake Portfolio

  https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/search/results.jsp?bmForm=keyword_search&bmFormID=1264012885736&bmUID=1264012885736&bmIsForm=true&bmPrevTemplate=%2Fproduct%2FbrowseLanding.jsp&bmText=initialSearchTerm&initialSearchTerm=art+portfolio&bmHidden=search&search=10&bmImage=search.x&bmImage=search.y&bmHiddenName=search&bmHiddenIndex=0&bmImage=search&bmHidden=SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EsearchFor&SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EsearchFor=art+portfolio&bmHidden=SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3Epath&SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3Epath=%2Fmedia%2Fcontent%2Fsearch&bmHidden=SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3Epath&SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3Epath=%2FProducts%2FLakeshore&bmHidden=SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EobjectTypes&SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EobjectTypes=PRODUCT&bmHidden=SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EobjectTypes&SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EobjectTypes=CONTENT&bmHidden=SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EsearchTextOperator&SEARCH_INPUT%3C%3EsearchTextOperator=and&bmHidden=autocompleteFlag&autocompleteFlag=&bmHidden=FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474395181355&bmHidden=ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181113

  Jill * Married to Steven 11/9/03 * DS Samuel 4/4/05* DS #2 Jeffrey 6/13/2009

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• DallasHorn member

  July 2011

  SuperCuteBenz:

  DallasHorn:

  SuperCuteBenz:

  I take pictures of the artwork, and then put the picture into an album.
  

  Yep, I've heard of this...but call me old fashion, I think it looses something by just taking a picture of it. My mom saved some of my artwork from my early childhood and it's so neat to hold it/touch it, hence I'd really keen to actually keep it as is.

  Are you saving everything?

  Why don't you take pictures of most of it and keep your favorites? I don't have room to keep all of my DD's stuff, and honestly the stuff of mine that I do have, is all faded and falling apart. So, I would rather my mom have taken pictures of it.
  

  Nope - not everything - only my favorites! 90% if not more gets tossed after a rotation on mommy's office art wall.

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• britanyd member

  July 2011

  Each DD of mine has a small plastic box that fits hanging file folders.  There's a folder for each year, and I put my favorites in there.  I leave some room in the box to save some extra stuff.  For example, she came home with a really cute painted tiger mask-- I put the date on the back and put it in the box.  She made a robot out of a toilet paper tube-- date on the inside and put it in the box.

  It's a Sterlite box like this https://www.usphome.com/catalog/item.aspx?sku=12744&ctype=2&gclid=CIrh_e2C66kCFZQ5KwodHAPdag  and at the rate I'm going, I'll probably need to add another for each kid.  I have a hard time throwing stuff away, so at this point I'm happy it's contained in one place and semi-organized.

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• Carol*Brady2 member

  July 2011

  Mrs Manners:

  I'm thinking of scanning and making a photobook. But I'm lazy and haven't done it yet.

  Ditto & photographing the big stuff.

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• smitt2619

  July 2011

  Currently I have probably half of it up on the walls in the toy room.  The rest is in a pile under my bed awaiting better organization!  I take photos too.  I'm not sure if I'll put it into a book, but I'd like to combine photos and some actual artworks.  I have a hard time throwing it away! 
  

  

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