Comments on: Busted

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:21:13 +0000

Kids have such great memory. They would even remember the candy they asked you to hold on while she goes to the bathroom.. I can suggest that you make a scrapbook out of all her artworks.. You can compile it in such a way that you can still keep track of the dates when she gave that piece of art.
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By: Missy @ The Marketing Mama

Missy @ The Marketing Mama — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:25:59 +0000

My 3 year old has found his art in the recycling and been horrified! Mama, this isn’t supposed to go in the RECYCLING!!!!!!

Yes, it’s hard, but I still have to do it -there’s no way I could keep every one of his thousands of drawings! I do, however, regularly make him go through stacks and assign them to people we should mail them to.

By: Lady M

Lady M — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:14:37 +0000

I’m totally taking that idea of photographing the treasured art. Then I can dispose of the things made with glued food products at preschool before they rot!

By: Half Assed Housewife

Half Assed Housewife — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:31:53 +0000

I always get busted when I trash “treasures”. I like the scanning idea, but I am realistic enough to know that I will never actually get around to doing it.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:45:52 +0000

I’m getting some good ideas for ways to approach this problem—our house is getting taken over, and Ryan isn’t even 2 yet! Each week at daycare, his teacher has a theme for the week, and all artwork carries out the theme. She posts it on the bulletin board in vertical columns up from each child’s cubby. Every day when I pick him up, I know the picture on top is what he did that day. I try to be sure to comment that day, because Friday is “clean up day,” and his teacher puts the week’s artwork into a bag to be brought home. Some weeks, if there’s something particularly cool, it goes on the fridge, but many weeks, all the art stays in the bag. Or ends up on the unused end of the dining room table. His teacher dates everything, so I keep thinking that someday I’ll be able to make everything into a scrapbook that’s chronologically ordered. Someday, when I realize that I don’t need to sleep.

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:39:24 +0000

I’ve been busted…mid recycle even! I’m like Brie and take pictures of it all.

By: Francesca

Francesca — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:10:38 +0000

That whole scene is so familiar! We have a small house, and I keep only the most meaningful art and various projects, but I take photos of most, including the complex Medieval battle grounds that take days to set up and take over the whole living room (why not their bedroom? because my kids bedroom is already a battle ground on most days!)

By: *Pol

*Pol — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:45:09 +0000

The digital age is brilliant for this!
If it is artwork that they are particularly proud of, I take a photo of them holding it! Then I have a picture of the art AND a way to remember just how cute they were when they created it.
Either that, or I scan the drawing…. I make sure they are on my “slideshow” screensaver on the computer so that it pops up fairly regularly with all their other masterpieces. I tell them this is better because it can’t get wrecked, or lost, the colours don’t fade and I see my monitor more often than anything!
And with the digital one safely on board the computer I encourage them to give the original to grandma or another special person that doesn’t see them often.

By: Brie

Brie — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:27:01 +0000

When the girl first started school I would hang up all her artwook in the hallway. It got crowded. So I took a picture. Now I take pictures of anything really good. I figure I can make a photo book one day for her with all her art.

By: Green Mamma

Green Mamma — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:59:50 +0000

Yup, we’ve recycled. I like Heather’s suggestion of photographing the kids’ artwork. But here’s another thing we do; I get all artsy and judgmental and set aside her “better” artwork (yuck, I can’t believe I just wrote that . . . but you know what I mean?).

Anyway, I think even Soule Mama parts with her kiddos artwork or uses it as wrapping paper or something or other . . .