My kids love to draw, color and paint, but this 30 foot RV doesn’t have room for piles and piles of kids’ artwork. So, how do we store artwork without having piles of papers everywhere? Here are a few of our solutions:
1.) Take a photo! My kids are much more likely to let me throw things out if I have a picture where they can save their art or creation forever. My 7 year old even let me throw out this amazing salt map he created because he knew we had a picture for his Country Study project. We store our photos in Photobucket – find more ideas for Photobucket at this blog post I recently wrote.
2.) Chalk! Let the kids play with chalk, they can draw twenty pictures, which are quickly erased by the rain and I have nothing to store.
3.) Virtual Art! Let kids draw on the computer or tablet. There are tons of specialized apps, programs and websites, but my kids have always had a great time just playing with paint or layering shapes in Power Point. Also, movie making websites satisfy the same creative needs in many children.
4.) Make gifts! Many of the paintings and drawings my kids make get signed at the bottom and given away as gifts to their loving grandparents and aunts.
5.) Build with Nature! My kids love to glue sticks together and pile rocks into sculptures. These creations can either be put back to their natural form or burnt in a campfire. To preserve the creation before destruction – snap a photo!
6.) Edible Art! Have kiddos decorate cakes and cookies or create those cutsie Pinterest snacks. Once they have finished, snap a photo and then gobble it up.
7.) Keep a scrapbook or journal! I hate having paper lying around, so unless the kids are using paint or playdough, I try to keep their drawings in their journals. A notebook of drawings seems to take up so much less storage than 20 random pieces of paper which create clutter!
8.) Dry Erase Boards! Like chalk, kids can draw and erase over and over. If a kid wants to save a picture he has drawn – snap a photo!
9.) Photography as an Art Form! Hands kids the camera and see what they can come up with. Then, create a video collage of their photography.
10.) Fashion Design! Let kids decorate white t-shirts with fabric paint. Or let them cut out designs from different fabrics and glue them together into designs on white sheets and use this for skirts, capes for dress up, or even curtains.
What handy art storage trick do you use?
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