How much of your childrens' artwork etc do you keep?

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DD loves painting but I simply cannot deal with the piles of art work she produces. I feel so bad binning it though. How do you store art work and how much do you keep? She is 4 so we are not talking GCSE art here.

I once read something about this very same thing and someone came up with a fab idea! Take photos of them all and if you have one, load them on to a digital photo frame so that they are rotated. Kids love having their art work on display! It is really very difficult to keep everything!

Way too much is my honest answer

One wall of our kitchen is taken up with cork tiles which we use as a noticeboard. The best things or the most treasured by DD1 get put up there. Other things hang around for a day or two and then find the recycling bin. I get guilt pagnes too - I shoved the table decoration she made for Christmas in the bin yesterday. But what else can you do?

I don't keep much. DD has SN so I identify anything made by her in school quite easily! I have a special memory box for these. Anything that looks like there is no way she had a hand in goes straight in the bin, no matter how pretty.
The extent of her artwork at home at the moment is simply scribbling on a sheet of paper, it's not difficult to part with those
It's sad (she is 5) that she is not able to produce masterpieces yet but also relieving in equal measures!

Sorry meant to add, why not ask her which are her absolute eg ten favourites and let her have a say in it?

Oh, this is a tough one for me, too!

I will hang up a couple of adorable things. Then, when I need the space for new masterpieces, I will give it to my husband, who says he will take it to work so everybody there can appreciate it and he can look at it, there.

Out of sight... out of mind. I think he has one or two things above his desk but he throws most of it away as soon as he gets to work.

Anything that has simply been coloured in goes, and anything that has been drawn, painted and looks like a little thought and creativity is kept. The amount they do tails off dramatically in ks2 however.

I keep none. A few bits get stuck to fridge and rotated with new ones every so often, but I don't ever keep any. Who is going to want to look back at the squiggles of a child. They all look the same anyway.

I appreciate I am particularly unsentimental about things...I also don't keep baby clothes, first hair teeth etc.

I have kept loads of it and the baby is 18 next month :). My project is to photograph it all and make an album for them, they do like the fact that i have kept their things but at some stage we are going to downsize and I wont have space for it all.