Remember your kindergartener’s first week of school? When all the art projects and worksheets started coming home in their end of the week folder? After a month the papers really started to pile up and by mid-year you were swimming in collages and self-portraits. No parent wants to throw their children’s work away but physically keeping all of that paper can seem like an overwhelming prospect too. What can you do?
Create a web photo album!
Choose some of your favorite art projects each month, photograph them or scan them and upload them to an album labeled for that child and the current school year. You might ask your child to reflect on that piece of work or accomplishment and share their thoughts. You can record that with the image. Now you not only have a memory of the artwork but the story and insight from the child to go along with it!
If you have family members that live far away you can open up the album to allow them access with a password. What grandparent wouldn’t love to see their grandchild’s artwork on a more frequent basis? Maybe they’ll see one or two that they especially love and you can mail them the physical artwork to frame for their home or fridge. You can then select a few pieces to hold onto while the remaining papers are recycled.
Online photo galleries are an excellent way to preserve all of your child’s artwork and special papers. In the years to come you (and they) will enjoy being able to flip through your web photo albums and relive the memories without the chore of sorting through an endless pile of paper and boxes that have been pushed into the basement corner.
Create a web photo album!
Choose some of your favorite art projects each month, photograph them or scan them and upload them to an album labeled for that child and the current school year. You might ask your child to reflect on that piece of work or accomplishment and share their thoughts. You can record that with the image. Now you not only have a memory of the artwork but the story and insight from the child to go along with it!
If you have family members that live far away you can open up the album to allow them access with a password. What grandparent wouldn’t love to see their grandchild’s artwork on a more frequent basis? Maybe they’ll see one or two that they especially love and you can mail them the physical artwork to frame for their home or fridge. You can then select a few pieces to hold onto while the remaining papers are recycled.
Online photo galleries are an excellent way to preserve all of your child’s artwork and special papers. In the years to come you (and they) will enjoy being able to flip through your web photo albums and relive the memories without the chore of sorting through an endless pile of paper and boxes that have been pushed into the basement corner.
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