![]() ![]() I’m the kind of person who didn’t even keep their own yearbooks. At the end of the day, I probably recycle 90-95% of the art my kids make after I’ve documented it. I should warn you though: on the spectrum of Hoarders to Marie Kondo, I definitely err on the Marie Kondo side. I’ll share the pros and cons of each method so you have a better idea of what you’re getting into. I know that the art storage solution that works best for our family may not be the one that works best for yours. In this post, I’m going to share all of the methods we’ve tried, not just the final solution. It’s been a long process of continually improving the ways we display and archive our kids’ art, but I think we’ve finally found a system that works for us. I even started an art event for our homeschool community so all the kids could show off their creations together. When kids are making art constantly, it’s hard to keep up with everything they produce. Here’s what I kept: my kindergarten scrapbook and one shoebox full of my geometric designs, my favorite essays, some report cards and transcripts, and a few short stories I wrote in elementary school. I went over and sifted through it all, picking out a few things that actually had emotional significance to me. When my mom downsized her apartment, she still had boxes full of my old work that needed to be sorted. Some years after I graduated high school, I even had a childhood friend’s mom return a box of my schoolwork and mementos that had been left at her house. ![]() Over time, these mementos filled my bedroom, our hallway closet, our fridge, our dining table, and our storage locker. The terms paperless and decluttering would have sounded completely foreign to us.Įach year, I filled binders and notebooks–oh, so many notebooks–with my precious creative endeavours. Or at least, my family had never heard of it. Long, long ago, when I was a child, minimalism wasn’t a thing. How my family stored kids art when I was a kid ![]()
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