Don't
we all wish we could keep the precious paintings and crafts that our kids have made
throughout their early years? Here are some ideas that won't take up space.
Children make unique and timeless
memories almost every day in their early school years. They brim with pride as they bring
home crafts, paintings, and sculptures that come right from their tiny hearts. They give
us homemade gifts that we want to treasure forever. It is enough to fill a mom with all
the pride in the world. What
can you do with these keepsakes before they eventually fade, crumble, and sometimes
unavoidably get damaged? Or, perhaps you are just running out of room to keep anything
else without getting rid of something? Here are some great ideas to preserve the memories,
even when you cannot save the actual masterpiece:
- Hang up a clothesline either outside
or in a bright room in your house. Hang up pictures, paintings, scrapbooks, and other
items with clothespins along the line. You can video tape the items and say something
special about each one, like when it was done, what was the occasion, or anything else
that will help you remember the specifics about each project.
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- When your child brings home an art
project or some other memento, take a picture of it right away. Digital cameras make
this very easy now-a-days. Store the photos on your computer in separate files that
mark the day it was given, for what occasion, etc.
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- For the scrapbookers out there, take
the photos that you have accumulated and turn them into a scrapbook of your child's
projects. Keeping up with this task is not difficult, if you do it each time your
child brings something home. This way, when your child is older, she will have a
keepsake that you can pass down to her, or keep for it yourself always. You can even
keep some of the actual projects, if they are small enough to fit into the
scrapbooking pages.
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- Keep a memory box that is air-tight to
store these treasures in. Place the box where it will be out of extreme heat (like an
attic). Be sure to mark the box with its contents, so it will not get accidentally
thrown away. You can also paper clip a small form (something simple you can make on
your computer) that states any pertinent information you want to remember to each
individual project.
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