Reynolds’ Artwork
One thing I really love about sending Reynolds {and Eliza Jane} to daycare is that they do all kinds of artwork with the kids there. Hand and foot prints are by far my absolute faves.
Yes, it’s a minor reason, but with all those prints, it’s pretty great! How else am I supposed to be able to remember how small they really were one day, especially when Reynolds is staring down at me and I have a crick in my neck from looking up at him… I’m telling you, the kid is going to grow up and be enormous.
Anyway, Sunday afternoon I was going through a stack of glue and paint {even marsh-mellowed} smeared construction paper, all from Reynolds’ classes and tried to think of some ideas to keep the really good ones.
This is the best picture-idea I’ve seen, and I haven’t completely decided, but I think I’m going to do something like this, that I found on Pinterest:
And yes, going up our stairwell…because right now, our stairwell is pretty blah, boring. And currently I have no better ideas for it. No, I don’t want a gallery of grade-school photos…sorry to you out there that do 😛 But being in my parents’ home and seeing my 1987 bangs and crooked front teeth make me want to protect my poor kids from bad trends and pre-braces. Although, don’t get me wrong, Andrew and I…and of course my brother get a good kick out of those old photos. And everyone loves a good poke of the remember whens. {Nike pumps, anyone? Not me! My brother…}
Now the great debate is whether or not we should go to IKEA for the picture frames or just get the basic white ones from Michael’s or Hobby Lobby {waiting for the 40%-50% off of course}… Any opinions out there? Either about the frames or about what to do with all the artwork? I don’t want to just stick it all in a box. And something about having it go up the stairwell seems so much more cheerful and real-life like.
Happy hump day!
I love the frames on the stairs wall – Pinterest has such great ideas. You can always use large photo albumns to keep the artwork in – or a three-ring binder with sheet protectors. My daughters love that I kept several things like this from their childhood, which now my grandchildren like to look at.