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May 2008
Theme: “Life is Art; Art is Life”
Being Savvy Welcomes: Design Mom
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Storing Children's Artwork
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orangefluff said:
Another idea is to stop at the end of a designated time period (every month, every two weeks), take all the art one kid has made, and ask him to pick out the peices he's most proud of. Maybe do some filtering yourself before you give the pile of art to the artist for culling. Real artists do this themselves. They also use filing folders for art that is of different sizes.
airlia said:
We reuse the construction paper art and leftover cut pieces by shredding it and making homemade paper with it.
beancuso said:
We currently have our "gallery" space on our garage wall between our washer and dryer and the entrance to our kitchen from the garage. Goodness knows we spend enough time there to appreciate it! I've also recently added two other display features to the garage, an Ikea CD holder mounted up on the wall to display our larger 3-D items and a cork board screen (cork mounted on plywood) that we can tack and staple arwork to, even while it is in the drying phase. It makes the garage a more cheery place to be!
JenniferS said:
What creative ideas! We have also laminated some pieces to create colorful kids' placemats, and printed out photos of art projects onto cardstock to be folded into homemade greeting cards! I have purchased a nice, spiral bound sketch book. Every month or so I have my 4-year old color and draw on the next page of the book. We date the page and see the progression of ability...much like the bound book idea. All the work is kept neat and tidy in the spiral. Don't you wish our moms were so organized!
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