Ideas of what to do with my sons' artwork?

[Laura1001]

I was thinking of creating a photobook with it, has anyone else done that? Any other ideas?

That's a nice idea. We have started taking digital photos of it all so we don't have to keep all the crap for posterity.

Fab idea, a really lovely thing to have and look back on. I tend to pile it all up in a corner in the kitchen and then chuck it out when it spills over onto the floor!

Take digital photos and make up one of those big photo collage canvases.

I cut it up and stick it on card. It's good for back up thank you notes etc.

Thanks everyone that has responded so far!!

I write merry Christmas / happy birthday etc messages on them, and post them as cards from DS separate to my cards (only really for adoring grandparents :) )

bigkidsdidit- I quite like that idea! I would imagine grandparents would like it.

They do. If you're organised it's easy - for painting etc in Feb and march use egg shaped paper, in october and nov tree shaped paper. They like it and you don't have many to throw away etc - I just keep the odd one.

Bigkidsdidit- i quite like the idea of using egg shaped paper, ect anyway, as it add that little bt of extra character to the art itselve.

I keep a yearly scrapbook, selecting nice bits to go in x

grumpypants- i like the idea of creating yearly scrapbooks.

My two are not avid artists, but I keep the few bits that they bring home from nursery/preschool in a plastic A4 document folder. The ones with clear pockets already in it. (I just fold the bigger stuff & stuff it in) I also stick a photo of them from the first day of term in the front & try to add a photo each term.

I have also seen some really cool picture frames that I would love for my kitchen. You just slide A4 paper into the top of the frame! I will have to go through my bookmarks for the link...

What I did was scan in all of DS's 'better' artwork, save as a jpeg, shrink it down to 2" by 1" rectangles, and then make a poster-sized collage of lots of his pictures in miniature and framed it. It looked like this

THAT MINI PICTURE LOOKS GREAT.

overmydeadbody I've deliberated about doing this and you've just convinced me! Thanks for the instructions

That is utterly fantastic what a great idea! I was dreading throwing out all their artwork in upcoming house move but that will stop me feeling guilty! How did you get it printed out poster size - did you use an online place? Is that your actual one - it looks fab!!

I did a similar thing for end of year present for the teacher - each kid did a picture and I canned them all, printed and put in a frme - was only A4 though.

i have a few photos of my sons works of art - keep originals of the most bizarre though, they are fun to look back at

oh my that's fantastic! I'm going to do that too now!

Glad everyone likes it!

I got mine printed up at Photobox, but didn't use their collage-making service, I just made the collage myself first using photoshop and a canvas size exactly the same as the Photobox poster size print, and arranged all the little jpegs of artwork onto one and them saved that as a jpeg and then went to photobox for them to print it. Does that make sense? It took me ages.

Overmydeadbody- that looks like a good idea!!
Has anyone here created a photo book with their artwork? Would you think it would be a good idea?

overmydeadbody = yep makes perfect sense thanks, I like to use my own software to arrange too and then just need somehwere to print poster size.

I think it make perfect sense as well. What about creating a photo book with it, has anyone done that?

Laura I think a photo book sounds like a great idea! Go for it, especially now with the January sales.

Overmydeadbody- think i just might!