What an illusion when your son brings you his first painting, what a work of art, you can see his strength, that rebellious and transgressive spirit that he shows every night, especially after two in the morning. You don't understand why others see only one page with a few scratches, how much envy.
After a while, you receive "gifts" at a rate of two or three per week, month after month, until your home has merged with the nursery school your child goes to. It is not that this year the child is happier, it is simply that he cannot distinguish his house from school. And let's not say when it's not just a child you have, in this case we could set up a second-hand stationery. So at this point, it is inevitable to ask ourselves What to do with our children's crafts.
Unless you are lucky enough to live in one of those mansions of hundreds of square meters, labyrinthine corridors and in which you need to go to the bathroom by motorcycle because if you do not arrive, you will need a strategy to manage the various crafts of your children. That comes a point where even your parents when they visit do not know where the refrigerator opens, because the handle is buried between "Congratulations dad", "I love you mom", "Feet of Luisito 2011" and hundreds of various stickers animation characters
Once the refrigerator is sufficiently wallpaper, we will do the same with the walls of your room, the rearview mirror of the car and the bathroom mirrors and so we cover the space with the various artistic expressions of your little Dalís. Sooner or later you are going to have to put with it, here are some tips:
Designate an exhibition area
It is not necessary to be the door of the refrigerator, so you can leave it for those magnets that you bring from travel and for the shopping list, it can be a wall or even a window and rotate the exposed works. If you have two children it is important that you define two zones, one for each child and that you rotate the work, either leaving the most you like them all or removing the oldest, that is to your liking.
Photograph each of the works
A good idea is to take pictures of each job and collect them all together so that you can show them to your children or their grandparents whenever they want. It is also a good idea to do it to keep a memory of what they have done, because the children will not be careful to safeguard their own works of art and I do not want to tell you what they can have with those of their brothers.
Get rid of them
It's cruel, I know, but you really want to keep every one of their crafts, that air freshener with eucalyptus leaves, lemon peel and flower petals that smelled so good ... three months ago, now you hardly dare to touch it. Choose a few things that best represent your child and throw the rest away. If, by chance of life, your child after 30 years asks for explanations of why you did not keep his scribbles, tell him that the fault was of a heartless editor of Babies and More, he will understand.
Give them away
Surely grandparents and uncles love that their little treasures give them their jobs and if they are lucky that their great grandmother lives, you can send them the complete annual pack that you will most likely love and want to repeat the following year and it is not joke. Keep in mind that if uncles have children of similar ages to yours, they can use the same technique with you, so it is better not to abuse unless you exchange them as if they were cards.
Recycle
One way to get rid of some crafts is to reuse them as a base or components of others, so for example if you have a face with stickers with eyes, you can make another drawing and reuse them. You can also wrap gifts with drawings, so you save paper and the surprise will be double.
