I don’t know about you but after school finished for the year my daughter came home with a truckload of work books and artwork. I put it in the corner of the family room and there it stayed until this week.
Coming from an admin background I like to be organised and the lack of organisation when it came to school work has been slowly driving me insane for about 4 years! So, I decided enough was enough and came up with a revolutionary idea about what to do with it all. I filed it! Yep, that age old organisation strategy that I have spent the last “almost” 20 years doing in my other jobs got a workout today.
I bought both the girls a lever arch file and some dividers and labelled a divider for each year. Then I pulled out all the artwork, books, school photos, reports and merit certificates and put them into piles for each year.
Once I had them all organised into piles I started at “Kindy” and filed the school photo, reports and merit certificates. At the end of the section I chose a few pieces of art and anything cute or funny that they have written.
Once we had finished I pretty much threw the rest in the recycling bin. As much as I’d love to keep everything my kids do this year is about decluttering so I had to be ruthless. All the good art has been saved and filed, the rest has gone to be recycled. Other ideas of what to do with your children’s art/craft is to use it for wrapping paper, have some special ones framed and use them as real artwork on your walls, take photos or scan them and file them away electronically.
Have you done anything special with your children’s art? Got a fab idea with what to do with the growing pile of art work in your house? Let me know!
