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salepepe
16 yrs ago
Whilst doing some spring-cleaning recently, I realised I have been hoarding 5 years worth of my children's arts & craft, work that they have done mostly at school.
I am so tempted to get rid of them as we hardly have any storage space and more importantly I do not know how to put them away. I do feel guilty for even thinking of throwing away many hours of work that my kids have put their heart and soul in.
So I was wondering what exactly do you do with your children's artistic attempts. How do you store them? Are your kids even interested in seeing what they did when they were 3 years old (I know my kids aren't)?
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We throw away almost everything but keep the absolutely best or "most significant" ones. My friend has a laminator for those.
I don't think the kids will much care when they get older, except perhaps one or two "token" ones.
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Cara,
where did you get your laminator? Its a great idea to laminate the paintings/drawings.
J
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Excellent ideas! Thx a whole bunch, Cara & AG38.
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Double A4 would be A3. Gotta love the ISO 216 standard. ;)
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This will derail the thread but here goes. 8 1/2 X 11 is letter, a US/Canadian format. Not the same size as A4, which is about 8.3 X 11.7 and part of the ISO 216 standard, (officially) used in the entire world except the US and Canada.
The great thing about the ISO 216 standard is that each size, when cut or folded in two, gives the size below it. So you can make an A5 brochure (which will conveniently fit in a C5 envelope) simply by folding a piece of A4.
Here's a good illustration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_size_illustration2_with_letter_and_legal.svg . Yes I find this kind of thing fascinating. ;)
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Z
16 yrs ago
Digital photos uploaded to a website.
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joga
16 yrs ago
I throw everything away but thats just unsentimental me. When my children were smaller and didn't understand the meaning of the word corny we would clear out every thursday (school art tends to be brought home on friday) and would I tell them I need make room for the for the "even specialer stuff" I was sure they would make the following week. Anything they wanted to keep they had to keep and find an appropriate place for themselves. Pretty soon they work out the hazards of hoarding. My children are now either young adults or fast approaching young adulthood I have no regrets thus far in regards to artwork. I like what they do today I enjoy anticipating what they will do tomorrow and I doubt even if I had kept their art would I or they be looking at it now. You know yourself best will you regret not keeping these things or not?
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I take a photo of most of them and put them in an album ... a few get kept for wall artwork. We have a put up a couple of pieces of string along one wall and clip art onto it so my daugher has changing art work every few months when she bring things home from school.
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Z
16 yrs ago
That's nice with the string. I'm so going to steal that idea. We generally just do the stick to the refrigerator with magnets thing, but my daughter's school does some cool 3-D stuff [she brought home a clay flower today; they also recently did butterflies made from empty water bottles with wings taped on] that doesn't stick to the 'fridge.
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The 3D stuff takes up a LOT of space! Kids wouldn't notice if I threw stuff out, but hubby would!!
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