Putting up kids' pictures.

[hairtwiddler]

Our kitchen is due to be redecorated soon. It's currently a horrible shade of sunshine yellow and one wall functions as kids' art gallery, where we hang random smudges works of art produced at school/nursery. Any ideas on how to create a neater space to display their creativity without needing blue tack? It is quite a large wall.
Thanks for any suggestions!

Do you have room for a washing line with coloured pegs to hold their stuff? That's what we have.

Think I also saw magnetic square things in Ikea catalogue for just this purpose.

Thanks. Considering magnetic paint for part of wall. Anyone used it?

on our family room wall I have put up craft wire between nails about 8 foot apart - 6 rows. Then lots of coloured pegs. All artwork goes up there, as do cards etc. Love that wall, always changing, always happy

I have a huge pin board on one wall that I use for all the kids creations, its like a little art gallery

Now like the craft wire idea. No blu tack or magnets, easy to change stuff round. One wire per kid.

I'm going to pinch some ideas here. Ds's lovely room has been wrecked by horrible blue tack. It's doesn't really work and leaves a grease little stain. I would like an large poster size frame that I can slip art work into. When we re-decorate his room one wall is going to be cork then paint that a nice colour

How about this?

Have looked at those but dh vetoed, as lots work not a4. He has a point. Is it easy to paint cork? Another thought was coloured cork tiles but don't like thought of little pins kicking about with ds on the loose.

hairwiddler By the time we get around to doing this Ds will be about 8 years
I think we might that board they have in schools they seem to paint them every few years. But yest I'm not sure about painting cork I'll have to look into it.

Tried magnetic paint and it was rubbish - blackboard paint is great though (but doesn't solve your artwork problem.)

Do you think some business type person should come up with a lovely solution by now.

You'd think so. Bottom line is though that the tattier and messier the artwork the more you love it!

These are great but rather overpriced
www.notonthehighstreet.com/thearticulategallery

They are great. I'd need loads though!

Pannacotta I might ask for 2 of these as a birthday present. My Ds isn't a big artist so 2 will do us.

I went to B&Q and bought moulding (like the type you'd use for a door frame), cut it to make a big frame shape (stuck the moulding to the wall with "No More Nails"), painted the moulding white and the inside of the frame a really bright turqouise, and it is DS's "Gallery". It takes about 12 A4 size pictures (I just stick them up with blutack) and he loves deciding which new pictures to display.

Grumpy that is what dh suggested....

Thanks for this thread OP, got that dilemma here and a short wide wall. Like the IKEA things - why didn't I think of IKEA!

These are also very sweet
www.bodieandfou.com/bird_clothes_pegs?category_id=69

Loving them Pannacotta! Might get some to have photos; just gorgeous snap shats of the DCs.
Grumpy. Very creative, I'm impressed!