Kids’ Art Gallery

Daily Momtivity promised you some “creativity” (that would be the “tivity” in “MOMtivity”) but I gotta admit, I just haven’t been feeling all that creative lately. It comes in cycles for me.  I get all “Pinterest-y” and take on several crafts or DIY projects, and then I’m totally anti-craft and want nothing more than to keep things as simple as possible for awhile.

Today, I felt an urge to jump on Pinterest in search of ideas for a kids’ artwork display.  I love to hang the kids’ art around the house, even if it sometimes make the house look a little…well, tacky.  I have artwork on the back door, the window, the refrigerator…

I promise that I don’t save everything – but I try to show the kids how proud I am of their great work.  Some things I hang onto for a few weeks, and then it goes into their memory box.  Other items get a little “fridge time” and then go into the trash (when they’re not looking) to make room for new things.

For a long time I’ve wanted to create a special space in the house for their artwork.  While perusing Pinterest this evening, I came across MANY ideas.  Too many ideas!  Here are the finalists…the ones I’ll consider doing one day soon!

This concept with the white ledges is super cute.  It’s a big commitment…adding these ledges to your wall…but perhaps in later years they could be used for framed family photos.  I like how easy it would be to place the art, and art of all shapes/sizes.  Find it here:  countryliving.com

I love this reclaimed wood clip board, also.  I could imagine using decorative cute clothespins, or the silver clips you see in the picture.  Find it at bornagain-creations.com.  (Lots of other cute ideas there, as well.)

Finally, the most popular way to present children’s artwork (other than in picture frames) is the clothesline concept.  There are a lot of cute samples of that on Pinterest.  I like this one in particular because they chose to frame the entire thing, rather than just have a clothesline randomly floating on the wall.  She actually used grosgrain ribbon…not a wood frame.  I suppose you could also paint a frame shape around it.  Very cute.  Find it at pinkbuckaroodesigns.blogspot.com.

There were many cute ideas using colorful picture frames.  I like the way those look, but I think right now I prefer to do something that allows for a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

I’ll do a follow-up post someday and let you know what I decided to do!  How do you present your kids’ art? Do you photograph everything and make a photo book?  Do you hang it in their bedrooms?  Please share your ideas with us!

Nicole