Growing Up Naturally In Home Child Care: Artwork: Are You a ...

When our children are young, they bring home artwork ALL. THE. TIME! As a parent, you want to keep it all to remember and cherish those days. But there is only so much space!!!

I have known through my years in Early Childhood Education of a few things that parents have done.

1. I knew a family that for Christmas of their oldest child's Kindergarten year had a photo book made of the child's artwork, every piece that Mom had kept, from infancy through Pre-K. This way, Mom had a precious memento that allowed her to remember that time period while allowing her to let go of the actual artwork.

2. I knew another family who went out and bought 10 cheap 8x10 picture frames. These were then decorated 5 and 5 by the two children in the family. After they were decorated as the children wished, they were hung in the garage. Every week, each child chose 5 pieces of artwork to keep (the rest were recycled) to display in the frames for that week. At the end of the week, they were placed in a box marked with the child's name. At the end of each school year, the family hosts an "Art Gallery" night where the children are video-recorded showing off each piece of art and they talked about what the art is of, what inspired them, etc. (Mom made notes on the back each week as them were placed in the boxes to help the kids remember). After they were done being videoed, the art was then recycled while the video was kept as a memento.

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What do YOU do with all of your child's artwork?

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