Young Picasso

My daughter is a budding artist, much like her mommy at the same age- or so I'm told!  She keeps herself entertained with paper, crayons, scissors and a glue stick for hours on end.  It's her go-to activity and any free time is spent making cards for friends, tiaras and bracelets for herself or her dolls and any other creating that takes her fancy. 

I've allocated an entire drawer in the kitchen to arts and craft supplies.  Livylu is really good at helping herself to appropriate materials and with a bit of reminding, is quite good at cleaning up too.  Unfortunately, all of her creations also get thrown into the drawer and after awhile we can't find crayons and glue through the paper. Here's where I struggle... what do you do with all of the precious drawings?  Surely keeping them ALL becomes a fire hazard after awhile!  

I've looked into a number of options, under bed boxes, wall hangers for displaying purposes, cork boards, plastic wallets,  scrapbooks... all are good options and I think that a  combo of all is my plan of action.  I've found a great wall hanger that displays 9 A4 pictures
I like the idea of allowing my daughter to choose her favorite pictures to display. 

I also like the idea of collecting special drawings and craft projects and sticking them in a scrapbook.  I'm hoping to start one of those so that in years to come both Livylu and I can look back and see how her artistic skills have progressed.

I've toyed with the idea of installing a wall of cork board in Livylu's room, but the idea of having thumbtacks in a 4 year olds room scares me, so I think that if I do use cork board it will be in the kitchen.

By far one of my favorite ideas comes from my fabulous friend Foxy Milk.  I wrote about it in a previous blog.  Getting those Artistic juices flowing!  What better celebration of a child's talented artwork than to frame it and display it with pride on the wall!  For irregular shaped artwork check out Blissfully Domestic


For more ideas on what to do with an over abundance of precious artwork Small Notebook. is worth a visit.

Happy creating, and who knows.... maybe we're nurturing future artistic geniuses!