Organize Childrens Artwork

Kids come home from school with a lot of paper and part of that is oddly-sized and weirdly-shaped masterpieces.

Check out the following tips on how to organize childrens artwork and recommendations for useful storage products. Enjoy!

The Process

Utilize the general organizing procedure of purge, sort and store, and apply it when you're going to organize childrens artwork.


Purge:

• Go through your child's masterpieces one by one and only keep your favorites. It's best to do this purging session at the end of each school year.

• If one of your favorites is in bad shape (i.e. ripped), take a picture of it and then discard it.

• As you make decisions, put the item in the corresponding pile/bag/box - Keep, Recycle, Trash.

• Take out the trash for a clean work area. This avoids any undoing of your hard work.


Sort:

• Sort your child's artwork and categorize it by year.

**Write the date on the back of each piece of your kid's artwork as it comes into your home. This is good for memory sake AND for keeping things organized.**


Store:

• Put the categorized items away accordingly. Use large art portfolios and label them with your child's name and the date of the contents inside (i.e. Emily's Art, K-5th Grade).





• Also check out the products suggested below!


Maintain:

• At the end of each school year, go through and purge your kids artwork only keeping the best pieces.



The Products

There are tons of great products to organize childrens artwork. Check out the ones featured below!

Schoolfolio - our favorite product to organize childrens artwork!
This is a great product for organizing kids art. There is a single portfolio or an all-in-one option and a place in the front for your kid's photo. Check it out!


Don't Want To Store The Artwork?
We've got solutions for that too!

1. Take photos of the artwork and turn it into a book. Do-it-yourself websites like Shutterfly are perfect for this.

2. Take photos of the masterpieces. Then laminate and blow them up, if necessary, to be used as place mats.

3. Take photos of your kid's art and turn them into anything you can print on or order online (i.e. calendars, mugs, mouse pads, t-shirts).

4. Make a movie! Line up your child's artwork on the floor or against the wall so that all the pieces are easy to see. Use a video camera to visually record each one (in a single take if possible). You can optionally add some music in the background and voila!

5. Have your child's artwork handled professionally by one of the following companies:

My DigiFridge
The Little Author
Petite Picasso
Souvenarte

What Do You Do With All Of Your Kid's Art Masterpieces?

There are so many things one can do with the enormous amount of artwork a child can produce. We'd love to hear what you do; share it here!

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