To have no idea what to do with all the stuff that comes back from nursery

[Squelchsquerch]

I mean all the artwork etc. Feel like I'm drowning in it. What do people do with it? I feel bad to chuck it straight in the bin but it's not sustainable to keep it all.

Save the star pictures, put one or two on the fridge and bin the rest

Admittedly I don’t have kids but I saw this once on Pinterest and thought it was brilliant and filed it away- take pictures of everything and then get it made up into a photo book by year. Then you’ve kept it all but in a much more compact format?

I have a scrapbook for DS but he doesn't bring home a lot. They tend to put it all in a book for us and present that at the end of the year.

I've got bloody big files full. My youngest is now 10!

I did get more cavalier and start binning things at times. I just keep the special things now. A good way around it is to only keep the things like decorations they make....so the Christmas decorations or Easter stuff.

And the odd extra nice/funny drawing.

Bin it! Really, do it

One on the fridge, bin the rest

Sneak it under a few cereal boxes in the recycling bin.

I just keep the Easter/Christmas/Mother’s Day and Father’s Day stuff and sometimes the odd cute/funny picture.

My eldest son’s nursery at school also gave us a scrapbook with some of his work last year.

@CRbear i love that idea!

I take pictures, upload it all to a dedicated private Instagram then bin.

Photograph it all and bin the originals. I had a 3ft Junk Modelling house painted bright orange hanging about for 6 years - don’t be me

Take a photo. Post pictures to nan/grandad/auntie etc to 'share the creative love'

I keep it all and then we use it for personalised cards for grandparents and close aunts/uncles! We just draw around DS hand or draw a love heart, stick it on some card and it’s done. Alternatively, get one of those calendar things and attach to a picture for a gift. I feel bad about chucking it, so let someone else do it... I keep the seninwmtal stuff, but the amount of crap that comes back is overwhelming!

Mine go straight to the recycling bin unless it’s something special like a Mother’s Day card. But then DS is only 2 and spectacularly untalented when it comes to art! I’ll keep more if he gets better

Craft hung around for a week then binned unless DC really wanted to keep it and it went on display in their room (then binned when broken).
Best artwork (particularly good or showing a developmental step)named and dated on back and displayed in kitchen. When display area full, removed and filed in memories box. Other artwork binned.

Loft.

I put favourites on the fridge hide the rest in a box and bin them periodically

Take photos then bin

When we lived in the US I spotted a fab idea - friend had a piece of sheet metal floor to ceiling in the corner of her playroom, stuck all the art work to it, once it was full photographed her kid in front of it, binned everythig that was photographed and then started again...

Bin most of it, keep a few really interesting bits to put away for them when they’re older, some of it goes off to GPs (who probably bin it too).

A couple years ago though we did make my mum a collage out of it for Christmas (framed so she could hang it up), which was a really nice idea. Though to be fair, they only have so much wall space so haven’t done it again since.

^I've got bloody big files full. My youngest is now 10!*

I have a huge, plastic underbed plastic box full, and mine are 41 and 39!!!!

I've taken photos of each one and when I have 20 or so I make a collage and then print it, I then shove that in a arts photo album 😂

We've got a 'washing line' on the kitchen wall with mini pegs. Every term we peg everything up and take it down in the holidays for the next lot. Kids usually keep a couple of their favourites, I do too

DS doesn't come home with anything since we've moved. His new nursery don't do any adult-led activities and he's 20 months, so not really bothered about creating artwork.
Give him a pen and some paper and he creates lovely scribble pictures, though...

@lollyice that’s what i did too. I put a ‘washing line’ along each kids bed and peg their art work/photos/writing on it. When it’s full and new stuff comes home, I put the best stuff in a plastic box in the attic (not really got a plan what to do with all that) and bin the other stuff.

I’ve got a file with those see through A4 pockets that I put them in- it’s like a book. If the work is too big it ends up in the bin (unless I can trim them). They’re all named and dated and put in order. I have one for each child.

When they bring something new home it goes on the fridge and what was on the fridge goes into the file!

Not sure what I’m going to do when bigger art projects come home. They may be filed safelyin the bin.