Weeding Through Your Child’s Artwork Creatively

Today I thought I would share my creative solution for weeding
through my son’s art work. My son attends preschool and they do a craft
every day that he is there. He attends two days and also attends bible
school on Sundays, where they make some type of craft there too. That
means (at minimum) we are bringing home three crafts a week.

Now
I love everything my son brings home, but there are just those
*special* crafts that really stick out in my mind. There are the ones
that are pictures of his family, or ones that have his beautiful hand prints- stuff like that. Then there are those that are just funny
that I can’t wait to show him later in life. Like, when they had "Q"
day and he had to make a Queen and our son only put hair on one side of
her face. My husband pronounced this his, "Boy George" queen and every
single time one of us walks by it we sing, "Do you really want to hurt
me?"

As for the other
crafts, we have found a good way to share these with others. Each
family occasion (birthdays, illness, or a thank you) we ask our son to
pick one piece of art work that he would like to give as his gift. He
picks one that is special to him and he tells us what he would like for
us to write on it, as a special message just from him. This has helped
him learn to share his talents with others and also becomes a special
gift just from him. He loves showing his art work off and we love
weeding through the countless art projects that come our way. On our
gifts, we attach the craft on top of the wrapped gift and this is so much
more creative than a bow!

Sound Off: What are some creative ways that you have weeded through your children’s artwork? Share them at Blissfully Domestic Living forum.

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This entry was posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Family.