The child grows up, and for several years, parents, as a rule, accumulate a huge number of children's drawings. Many consider it possible to throw out only the most unsuccessful or insignificant of them, but what to do with the rest? A few interesting ideas will help you keep your kid's cute arts for years to come.
We keep the originals
Sort your drawings. Sign on the back at least the approximate date of creation of each. Put the most successful ones in one pile, the less interesting ones in another. The least time consuming option is to simply place beautiful drawings in a separate folder by pasting them into transparent files.
You can put less interesting ones in a box: you may want to revise them as time passes.
If a regular folder seems too common for you, make a colorful album. You can create it yourself, or together with your child: in the latter case, the result of your joint creativity will be even more pleasant to consider after years. In addition, there are companies that offer their services for the design of colorful sketchbooks.
Give drawings a second life
If the drawings themselves are saved, you can make something more out of them at any time. In this case, everything depends only on your imagination and technical capabilities. Start by transferring your drawings to electronic media. Firstly, this way you can save the drawings for decades, as well as show them to all distant relatives and friends. Secondly, the electronic version of the drawing is the basis for further creativity. Images can be applied to T-shirts, mugs, magnets, mouse pads. Such a souvenir is a great gift for those who love your child. Pictures can be used to make an interesting collage, desktop wallpaper, design for an Internet blog or website. If the kid draws the same characters, find companies (and there are a lot of them now) that will create a doll, stuffed toy and even a cartoon based on these children's sketches.
If your child is a truly gifted artist, do not store drawings just for your own viewing. Send them to contests, to thematic magazines: perhaps you will open up a new future for your son or daughter.
Drawings in the interior of the house
Even the simplest child's drawing will look great in the interior. Moreover, the more naive and simpler the image, the more stylish the interior element can be. Most often, drawings are used to decorate the walls both in the nursery and in other rooms. To do this, you can choose the most interesting drawings, make the same frames for them and hang them in one place. Images hung on clothespins on a rope stretched along the wall will look no less stylish. Sometimes a children's colorful daub without a specific plot becomes similar to a real picture of an abstractionist and may well claim to be a central place in the living room.
