'Where do you keep all the precious artwork your children create in early school years?'

Where do you keep all the precious artwork your children create in early school years?

By Vicki at 08/04/2009 20:53

I recently came across several boxes of items I had saved from when my 4 kids were in elementary school. You know the ones if you have any kids...the ones with the outlines of their hands covered in finger paint and so forth.

How in the world could I have let these precious memories get all wrinkled and rolled?

I want to keep these pictures and stories they wrote for each of them to have forever and show their children someday.

I know you can't keep everything they create, but the most special of the drawings and so forth are now divided by child, sorted out and placed into vertical flat folders that store inside a storage box.

These file systems are designed to store and protect documents you want to preserver in a flat state.

I put the items in the folders and label them by child and store them in the box which has the years created on the outside on a label. This system allows me to retrieve individual pieces if I want to create a scrapbook page out of one and leave the rest intact and not all wrinkled up.

The handy labeled area outside makes it possible even to stack the outer boxes up in my storage area and I know what is in each one without even opening it.