10 Ideas for Showcasing, Saving, and Sharing Artwork

While every parent likes to encourage their child’s creativity, does one corner of your kitchen counter end up looking like an exhibit waiting to be installed in a modern art museum? You are not alone. As a professional organizer and mother of a creative little one, I’m always looking for new ways for showcase, save, and share artwork. Here are 10 of my favorite ideas:

1. Select your favorite art pieces to frame and hang in your home. A mat and frame can turn any artwork into a masterpiece, and your children will be proud to see their creations displayed prominently.
2. Designate one wall as a rotating “gallery”: artwork is displayed for a few weeks, and then taken down to make room for new pieces. This helps contain the art to one area in your house.
3. Use a display shelf in a hallway to showcase special pieces or sculpture.
4. Laminate artwork and use them as placemats, for yourself or to give as gifts.
5. Routinely give artwork away to grandparents and others who love your kids.
6. Turn artwork into wrapping paper or cards.
7. Each year designate a box for each child to store favorite artwork, and keep only what fits in the box…your child may be able to help choose the pieces to keep. At the end of the year, showcase or save the best (maybe five pieces), recycle the rest, and start over again.
8. Hang art on the wall or the fridge, and each month take a photo of your child in front of all the pieces; then take down the artwork but keep the photos in a special photo album.
9. Take digital photos of the artwork and turn them into a slideshow screensaver for your computer.
10. Take digital photos of the artwork, upload to an online photo site, and then create a simple calendar or photo album to keep or share as gifts.