I’m slowly convincing my kids to part with their “treasures” by taking digital pictures of them to remember them by. Sometimes it’s not the actual PIECE they want to hold onto, but rather the memory of the events surrounding that piece. Maybe it was made at camp, or at an art class, and looking at the piece reminds them of those experiences. But the piece itself just collects dust and takes up space. Of course, there are some that are just too precious to part with, and those will stay for a long time (or at leat until my kids get their OWN apartments and they can have it all back!) 🙂

My suggestion would be to take digital pictures of the items and make a ART Collection Scrapbook and journal on each page telling the details of this specific piece of art.
Welcome to Photo Hunters! Mine are up…visit if you can. Have a GREAT weekend!

Maybe you could “artistically jumble” it in a basket for decor.

What a good mom to save all that!

great photo!

Cynthia- this is a wonderful shot. I love the vibrancy of the colors. Excellent job. Nice framing and composition.

So nice to see you blogging again!

I like the Photo Hunt thing!

I’m with everyone else, take pictures of the work and then toss it! (And I thought I was going to be such a big help, lol!)

Welcome to Photohunt! It’s so hard to get rid of children’s art, isn’t it?

I love the photo! I agree with the others. Take pictures, make a lovely scrapbook layout and you’ll have them forever without taking up so much room! I’m late getting mine up this week!
(I have a business with Heritage Makers making digital books with your photos and it would be wonderful to make one book just of artwork photos! Or one for each child! 😉 )