The Value Of Children’s Work

Almost 2 years ago, I began the quest of finding a way to display my children’s art work. I tried several methods, most of them fell down or fell apart. I have a friend who uses plastic frames all over her kitchen, and I love that idea, but I have tile walls in my kitchen. I do use every spare inch of space on my fridge. I drool over the Pottery Barn Kids catalog, but it is too expensive for my budget.

I take digital pictures of every masterpiece that comes home except coloring pages. I will one day make each kid a scrapbook of all their wonderful things.

However; ALAS….I found an affordable solution at IKEA I found these wonderful magnetic boards that can display their work and also work as a teaching board for letter time:)

Meaningful Art

I know we all struggle with the decisions about what Art work is "storage worthy!" I went to my cousin's house this weekend...and she had a gallery of amazing artwork done by her kids using their hands and feet on every single piece. Some of it she had made into magnets and some of it framed.

I am not sure if you can tell from the pictures, but there is a white hand print in the corner as a cloud. A foot print became a chicken and little thumbprints became baby chicks.

I am going to do some research and see if I can get my hands on a book of ideas for this. This takes a little more time to do with your kids...especially 3 of them..but I know I will cherish seeing them grow and having valuable art work to save.

And if you have a good idea on saving art work...pass it to me!