T.C. asks from Round Rock, TX on July 21, 2011
What to Do with Kids Art Projects?
I try not to save ALL my son's art projects. I frame some, and have a shelf in the closet for all the normal paintings and pictures from school. But the ones I don't know what to do with are the ones that don't fit on the fridge. Large, 3-D projects my son makes at home. This might be a chain of fabric, paper, and yarn sewn together 10 feet long. Pistachio shells with pictures colored on them. Snakes made out of glitter and hot glue. Or today's project- a four foot tall board with metal scraps, a log, and a face carved in it.
Do your kids make huge or odd art projects? What do you do with them? How many art projects do you save?
*I have sent some of the smaller projects to my parents. My mom knows how to ooh and ah over them- but her house is still full of a lot of my projects from when I was a kid!
Mary L.- We have taken him to a few art museums, but we try to go on days when they have activities for kids so he doesn't get bored. On our trip to D.C. we skipped the art museum, but did see the small art exhibit that was part of the Air & Space museum. The best experience we had was a couple of years ago when we went on a local tour of artists studios.
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S.S. answers from San Francisco on July 21, 2011
My favorite trick is to take photos from various angles, so the full 3D effect can be savored, then box up the original along with a note about its priceless origin, and ship it off to the grandparents. The photos remain, so my budding artist can savor his work later, while knowing that it's being cherished and exhibited widely in far-away lands by devoted fans.
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H.P. answers from New York on July 21, 2011
I take photos of them all thoughout the year and when I load them on the computer I save them with the date as it's name. Then every year I make a snapfish photo book with all the creations of that year. Kids love looking through them and I have a lot less clutter. Of course some of the really special ones we save.
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S.S. answers from San Francisco on July 21, 2011
My favorite trick is to take photos from various angles, so the full 3D effect can be savored, then box up the original along with a note about its priceless origin, and ship it off to the grandparents. The photos remain, so my budding artist can savor his work later, while knowing that it's being cherished and exhibited widely in far-away lands by devoted fans.
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S.H. answers from St. Louis on July 21, 2011
rubbermaid under-the-bed storage tub.
When it's full, my son & I go thru it & decide what to keep/what to eliminate. It's amazing how waiting a few years....gives you the peace & frame of mind to actually let go!
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J.T. answers from Victoria on July 22, 2011
the metal art or some other art could hang on the back yard fence. if you had a six foot privacy fence.
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L.J. answers from Austin on July 22, 2011
I have an art cabinet where all the color books and art work go, then once a year my son and I pull them all out together and HE picks his favorites, we make 3 piles: favorite, kind of favorite and ones he doesn't like so much. Then we get rid of pile three and narrow down the other two piles, but I let him do most of the choosing, then we take photos of them and make a photo book out of it, I sign up with kodak, snapfish, shutterfly, picaboo, and sites like that to get special deals and take advantage when a great one comes along. Snapfish just had a buy one get two free deal and then extended it, you might still be able to do that one!
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L.G. answers from Austin on July 22, 2011
Our garage was our art gallery. Plenty of wall space and we drove into it everyday so got to admire all the great artwork. We made sure to show it off to others as well so our kids never felt like it was hidden away.
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M.C. answers from Wichita Falls on July 21, 2011
I don't know how to answer your question but you sound like an unbelievable mother!
I am an older mother and I saved a bunch under beds, etc., and then every few years I weeded them out while he was not home and kept the very best.
A FEW I have put into his scrapbooks, incorporated next to his photos when he was that age. Handprints, his writings, etc.
Again, you sound like an unbelievable mother.
Be sure to put his age on the back because we think we will remember and then we do not!! ;-)
Blessings to you!
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M.L. answers from Colorado Springs on July 21, 2011
I used to hang things up in the hallway, where there was enough wall space.
However, our "museum" had to have revolving exhibits.
You could decide with your son how long the work of art stays on the wall (a week? Two? Until the next one?). Then take some really good pictures of it before it is removed. Even real museums and galleries have to remove exhibits.
And your resident genius might be able to recycle some of the materials from, say, last month's project to use in one of September's creations. I hope he has a place in the basement or garage to store this basic material.
Keep the photographs of past projects in a scrapbook for you all to look at together, and perhaps he'll get ideas in the future from what he's done in the past.
Wow! A creative son! I'm so glad you're encouraging this. Maybe you want to take him on a short jaunt to an art museum some time, so he can see what other artists make and hang up on their walls.
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