When your child attends child care, preschool, or kindergarten, he or she will come home with adorable art work. As a proud parent, you’ll want to display those creations to help your child feel proud of him or herself. Here are some creative ways to display your child’s art:
Use Frames
Create a museum-like feel by framing your child’s art and hanging it on the walls throughout your home. Group the art by color, theme, or age, or just hang pictures up randomly to give a free feeling to the room. Don’t feel hemmed in by rooms, either; hang framed artwork in the hall, entryway, laundry room, kitchen, bathroom, or playroom to brighten up any room and help increase your child’s confidence.
Create a Collage
Use those precious paintings, drawings, and colorings to create a collage for display. Trim extra paper from around the edges of the art, and then group the pieces together for an interesting, adorable, and priceless collage. As with the framed displays, you can group the art by color, theme, or time frame-create a fall, winter, and spring collage to display your child’s work from child care, preschool, or kindergarten during those seasons.
Invest in a Glass Coffee Table
Invest in a glass coffee table where you can slip the art under the glass. You’ll be able to see it daily, show it off to your friends, and admire the effect without using up space on the walls. Your child’s art will be safe and on display, which is a win-win situation for all parents.
Other Options
If you have an abundance of artwork from child care or preschool, use those pieces for greeting cards to send to family and friends-they’ll get to enjoy the art too! Slide artwork into a photo album or scrapbook for safekeeping. Another option is to hang a clothesline and clip up the week’s art, and then rotate it to feature new work each week.
Your child’s art from child care or prekindergarten is precious and more valuable than museum art. Displaying his or her art makes it more enjoyable for your entire family!
