When Mazzy draws something, I tend to leave it out on the kitchen counter for a few days so I can oooh and aaah over it and then, when I am certain she isn’t paying attention, I transfer that masterpiece directly into the trash.
Sure, there are a few things I keep (way too many in my husband’s opinion), but my kids can work their way through a sketch pad in about five minutes. They have absolutely no regard for the storage space in our apartment or for the trees that have been murdered so they can scribble two lines on a piece of paper, declare it “DONE!” and move onto the next.
I can only imagine this is what an artist named Ruth Oosterman was thinking when she decided to turn her two-year-old daughter Eve’s scibbles into actual works of art…
Here’s a video of how the last piece was made…
I might just look at my daughter’s drawings a little differently now. (I’ll still throw them out though.)
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Awesome!! Check out this other Artist Mom — I have been watching her creations for awhile now and they are amazing as well…
https://www.facebook.com/kmstudiodotcom/photos/pb.138776199702.-2207520000.1410140473./10152474980034703/?type=3&theater
I have “keep boxes” for my kids. Once they started school, they came home with art every week! I have a box that fits under my bed (but not big under bed one). When we take the art off the fridge it goes in the box. At the end of the school year we go through and pick 4 things they love and put them in a folder that stays in the box. That way I don’t have too much, but we don’t make any rash decisions about what we keep and what we don’t. I sometimes choose to keep one or two that I like, but try to stick to the 4 a year!
I took pictures of all her art works from school and keep in in a folder in picture hard drive under her name. And she and I picked out 50 of what we like the best and make photo book with it at the end of the year. I also show her works she brought home around the house for a week, then “Daddy will bring it back to his office because Daddy loves it SO much”… aka the trash can.
I’m in awe of that artist. Being able to “see” into her toddler’s pictures and make them into something more is incredible.
There is an app called Art Kive, and you can make folders for your kids, and take pics to put in the folders. There is an option to make photo books and to share the pictures with people, too.
We use a magna doodle at our house and then when something is really great, we take a picture of it. That way we save paper and storage all around. Plus, I get my kids in the photo so that I can remember how they were when they drew it and what was going on in their life. It also shows how proud they are of their work.
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