What do you do with your child's artwork?

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I have lots of my son's artwork around the house. Does anyone have any ideas about what i can do with it? What do you do with your child's artwork?

I have a sentimental attachment to one or two things that my dcs have produced over the last few years and I put them away in a folder. The rest gets displayed on the kitchen cabinets for a while and then gets recyled when more comes home. I have still got a few things that I "created" in primary school 35+ years ago, but most of it was crap and you can't possibly keep everything. Junk models just get on my nerves. They go to the dcs rooms to gather dust until they fall apart.

To the OP (not read all posts)
I have 4 Dc
with Dc1 I would keep absolutely everything.
with dc2 a bit less and I felt guilty.

I then came up with the following:I bluetack their best art work on their bedroom's door, when it is too fulll I take them down and put then in a named box in the garage (plastc boxes wiyh a lid you can stack on each other). It will be up to them when they grow up a bit to choose what they want to keep. They will by then have completely forgotten about all of them and think I am pretty silly tro have kept them but...

My mum kept my school exercise books and it is still fun to have a little trip down memory lane when we visit with the DCs (especially for dcS as I was brought up abroad when dinosaurs were still roaming arround, so, obviously very educationnal.)

Dd doesn't bring any back any more . It all gets put up/recycled at school instead . WIsh I hadn't thrown so many away while she was at pre-school now.

i have quite a lot of it framed..i love it, esp the ones they came out of nursery with...."mummy"...with a big circle body and long arms and legs...arhhh

As said before

I put very good/meaningful artwork around house (usually laminate it if A4 or smaller), models get a photo taken then binned then the rest is piled waiting to go in a scrapbook.

Dd's mummies have wondeful eyelashes and loads of lipstick-it is not me, but may be someone elses mum . Laminating them and turning them into place mats is another good idea.

Stick latest ones on fridge door, then some are in DS' bedroom, after a while they go in the loft. Don't know why as I am sure when he is 21 he will be very interested in his artwork from primary school - Not!

Mostly recycling bin by the end of the day, after I have asked dd 5 about it.

With ds who is 2, it goes straight in the recycling bin.

I hide it from them though. Out of sight out of mind.

For the good ones, especially those which show a leap in development, I label them with name and age and put them into a box.

Mind you, it is not just artwork, there are all sorts of sculptures, papier mache creations too!

I have great plans to make a big frame of each year's art for each child. I did some sorting last year but never quite got to the final stage. Both have mine have gone through stages of creating so much I can't possibly keep it all. I think they'd rather have the space for toys. I'm very sad when I throw 3d creations out as some of them are great but there is nowhere to keep them all. Sometimes I get them out before chucking and they play with them until they fall apart. Job done!

They each have a wall in the kitchen. When their space gets full I edit!

Gonna get a giant artists portfolio to store them all in. Can't bear to put most of them in the bin.

I bought the biggest scrap book I could find, and stuck most of the best bits in there, in date order. Nursery often do not date stuff, so it's important you do when they bring home something new.
My mum kept loads of my senior school artwork too, and that was lovely to go back through, and groan/smile at.

i had my daughters picture transferred onto canvas..it looked fab!
it didnt cost much at all...it looks like an abstract piece of art and is quite nicely displayed on a large wall in our dining room!

Its a really good idea..y have someone elses art work on the wall, when we have our own little artisits at home.
i Just scanned in the image and emailed it [email protected]
they also gave me a 20% discount of the original price....i think the offer is still running check out the website its www.canvasbazaar.com or you can call them on 07716022230.