My kindergartner comes home with at least 5-10 pages a day plus artwork. Do you save it? My neighbors do but I'm tempted to toss it. If you do save it what's the purpose? I literally have an entire cardboard box full : /
Um not even close! Between daycare and nursery school we are drowning in artwork and projects. Not every one is a masterpiece so I take a few of the best and the rest get pitched!
DD1 gets a plastic bin for her schoolwork because she doesn't like to part with it. Once the bin is full, she decides what to toss from it and what to keep. If she won't toss anything, I tell her we will have to throw away anything else she wants to keep in the future.
If it were up to me I would throw everything out almost immediately but we have found this to be a good compromise.
I might keep a few things that are REALLY special, like her very first drawing of our family or something. But for anything else that I want to remember, I am more likely to just snap a photo of it than to keep a piece of paper forever.
Nope, not even close. At first I felt bad about it but I have no where to keep it, and I'm really not very sentimental in general. I save some really good or special ones, but not many at all.
I label a file folder with each kids' name and school year, and then put a handful of work in it throughout the year--things that are either particularly cute/funny, good, or just representative of what they were doing at the time. Each folder goes in a keepsake box when the year is through, so they will wind up with a box worth of work they can look through when they are grown, and see how they wrote in first grade or drew in kinder of whatever. If they have a big 3D art project they are attached to, they can keep it in their room for a while, then we stick a photo of it in the file folder before we eventually throw it away.
OMG, no! I save her papers where she had to write a story about a picture she had to draw. I saved her first spelling test, first Math Masters worksheet. I also save some stuff from art class, but not just random pictures she colors in class.
Post by mainelyfoolish on Apr 17, 2015 18:22:18 GMT -5
No way. Sometimes I barely even read it before tossing it in the recycling bin (worksheets, not art projects). I only save about two or three representative pieces a year.
I've framed a couple of pieces I liked- the first real picture he did of the cat and a chickadee he did in pastels. I also saved a couple stories and his Trail to Eagle Binder/Eagle Scout Workbook.
Post by redpenmama on Apr 18, 2015 11:12:41 GMT -5
No. I have an exapandable file folder with slots for each month. The cute/sentimental stuff goes into that. I'm going to make a scrapbook/binder for each school year (or probably one for all of preschool) with things worth keeping -- those art projects, any cute "All About Me" sheets they fill out, and their individual/class picture.
We have a "paper box" in our playroom. DD never wants to throw anything away right away, so I tell her she can put any papers she wants to keep in there. When it fills up, we have to recycle them to make room for more.
We keep the really nice things. Like the valentine's day craft he made me, or a mother's day gift from last year. They seemed to have had a pirate themed week last week because ds1 came home with a decorated bristol board broad sword and pirate hat, decorated boat etc and he really likes them so they'll stick around for awhile. Most things end up in a pile that get recycled within a few weeks.
Things that have hand or foot prints I tend to save. Most everything else I take a pic and will put it in a photo book. They come home with so much stuff if have no place to store it.
Nope. Not more than 1-2 a year, and some photos of special items for our yearly photo book. I framed a painting that won her an award. DD used to stand horrified in front of the recycle bin with piles of her creations. I worked hard to teach her to cherish a few special items and to "let things go, to make room for new ones" as part of a good anti-hoarding lesson we still work on (all of us) every day.
I just purged a lot on Thursday. It was wonderful. I kept some things but majority went out. PLUS I learned that her teacher has a little portfolio showing progress for the year for her. So even if I throw everything away, she will still get that.