Do you keep all their crafts?

We have been doing lots of craft activities/coloring etc. DH keeps saying that we should hold on to them, but honestly I just can't see keeping all these around. So do you keep your kids' crafts around or do you just toss them a few days after?

 

It was the opposite in our house. I always wanted to keep everything my older girls did, and my husband wanted to toss all or most of it. I kept quite a bit. I also took pictures of bigger stuff so I could have it, but not run out of room in our house!
Helen

It was the opposite in our house. I always wanted to keep everything my older girls did, and my husband wanted to toss all or most of it. I kept quite a bit. I also took pictures of bigger stuff so I could have it, but not run out of room in our house!
Helen

 

We get rid of most things. I keep some things (their first painting, their first happy face, their first cutting project, etc.) but most I trash after bedtime. My friend has started selling These Scrapbook Portfolios and I will be buying two!

 

Also.....to add.........

I bought the materials to hang something like THIS in their rooms. I just have not put it together yet. But the idea would be that they could choose things and rotate them through to display.

My brother has this in his hallway for his two kids. I will be hanging them in their rooms, since I would not be able to handle the clutter in my hallway!!!

 

A big NO! They literally bring home 3 craft projects each on the days they go to preschool, plus all the stuff they make at home! I have kept a few things, but the majority of it I put on the fridge for a few days and then toss.

 

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Also.....to add.........

I bought the materials to hang something like THIS in their rooms. I just have not put it together yet. But the idea would be that they could choose things and rotate them through to display.

My brother has this in his hallway for his two kids. I will be hanging them in their rooms, since I would not be able to handle the clutter in my hallway!!!


Kate, I love the cable system. We had them hanging all across our preschool room and had the kids art hanging from them. I have been thinking of getting some for the kids rooms too.
Cari

 

No, we throw most of the stuff away. They come home with TONS of stuff from day care and i honestly don't have anywhere to put it all. We keep the "special" stuff...like their handprints, footprints, and some other things....

 

No,

I bought a 3 ring binder w/ clear protecter sheets to store favorites or 1sts and as a PP said take pics of other things. There is just too much to save.....

KC

 

No, but I do take pictures of everything before I toss 'em. I figure a digital photo will take up much less space!

 

I have saved just a few special coloring projects that they do at home - but they do a craft or color sheet at EVERY class at church (3 times a week) - so most of the coloring sheets I toss even before we get home...lol. Some they like to hold in the van, but by the time we get home, most of them get torn and I end up throwing them out. Some special crafts I will keep and put in their "keep box" (I still have MY keep box from when I was their age, with alot of my drawings and crafts from home and school!) for when they are older. It's just random selection, no rhyme or reason (although I tend to pick stuff they have not destroyed before hand...lol)
If I took pictures of everything, I'd have enough albums to fill a small house. There is no way I'd do that!

 

I keep really special stuff, or really amazing stuff. Otherwise, no. I don't live in a castle, so I don't have that kind of space! Plus, O draws and draws and draws all day long. She would keep everything she has accidentally brushed across with a marker if it were up to her. If it's just a scribble or something, it goes.

 

I hardly keep anything. They do most of their art at daycare, and the teachers carefully dry everything and send it home -- we look at it and throw it away. I feel sort of guilty, but if I had saved everything, we'd have a whole closet full already, and they're not even 2.5 yet.

I have kept handprints and a couple of especially pretty "paintings." I also have some pictures of them coloring or painting at an easel, which is more significant to me than the artwork itself.

When they're old enough to care, I'm going to do some sort of bulletin board in their room, where they can choose what to keep as long as it doesn't overflow the board.

 

I'm being psycho about it and not throwing anything out. I'm planning to get something like this art portfolio to store their stuff. I can't bear to get rid of anything they make, but I know it's going to quickly get out of control!

Michelle

 

I sve certain things that are really cute or that they have done a spectacular job on. But the everyday cloring/painting things are deep sixed.

 

No, there's no way I can keep all of it. Some of it is just one crayon scribble on a page. Yesterday, they painted for about an hour, and I think used about 15 pieces of paper. I've kept a few firsts or really nice ones, that's it.

 

I discreetly discard most of them. I keep some really cute things, and want to have a nice sampling of their artwork for them to look at when they get older. But no, definitely not everything.

I have a big Rubbermaid tub that most everything gets deposited into, and periodically I "weed" it.

 

I save things that have handprints or that they really made a special effort to create. Another thing I do is hang them on the refrigerator and take their picture in front of it. Then I toss them! I was talking to their preschool teachers about this the other day and they told me to save the ones that seem special to me for a year, then reevaluate. I also toss anything that it is obvious the teachers did (although this is more at camp than preschool since our preschool doesn't focus on a finished product). They also told me that that white newspaperish paper that they use for finger painting doesn't keep well and should be tossed. HTH

 

TOSS TOSS TOSS!!!

I keep things for a few days then most things get thrown out. I do keep things with hand prints or things like that. At the end of the school year, I then made a book with my top 10-12 things they had done tht year (just punched holes in the side and strung it together with yarn, like a book) and threw everything else out.

It's just WAY too much stuff!

 

here's another idea for those of you who don't live near family - i try to send a sampling of art work to both sets of grandparents periodically - they love getting these packages.

 

I was just going to add, like the pp mentioned...

We mail lots of their "art" to their cousins, aunts and uncles. The kids love giving their things to their older cousins, and their older cousins LOVE getting things in the mail. So everyone wins! We also deliver special pictures to the older couple across the street (our surrogate grandparents) and to the neighbor girl next store that they idolize.

 

we will keep some things but no way to keep everything. we started taking digital pictures of things so we can save it into an art folder on the computer. so we can save them without the volume. of course we will keep the special ones