another question

[molly1122]

thanks for all the responses about swim suitas. i still havent decided = but i have lots of ideas thanks to you all.

QUESTION DU JOUR

How are you storing your kiddo(s) art and papers that you want to save... i cant come up with a solution i like....

Comments

[apoppy]

I have what seems like a million art projects from my nieces and nephews. I keep their stuff in manilla folders in the filing cabinet. I do not suggest doing that because everything yellows & crumples too easily.

I would suggest getting some acid free/archival boxes (like these:http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/item.action?itemGroupId=200) so that you can store things flat. Kids artwork degrades very quickly and will flake all over the place. Boxes are easy to store & organize. And their size (and expense) will make sure that you only choose the best stuff instead of saving everything.

[molly1122]

great suggestion - im going to check them out. thanks!

[sebski]

lots of my photog friends online have taken pics of their favorite pieces of kids artwork... they then upload the pics into snapfish/shutterfly/etc and create books of them that way. i think it's a nifty thing to do and plan to do it for joey at the end of this school year. i want to do a book like this for each year of preschool/kindgergarten... but he's repeating group 1 this year so i want to wait till he's done w/ it again before creating a "group 1 book". ;o) i'm storing the artwork pieces in a rubbermaid thin bin right now... need to get archival boxes etc. but w/ 3 kids i'm going to have a lot of artwork to store. ;o)