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How To Organize Kid’s School Papers and Artwork

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By Brett Friel 2nd Grade

Keeping up with all the papers children bring home from school can be a full time job. Having a good system to manage homework, artwork and school correspondence is crucial to keeping your child (and yourself) organized during the busy school year.  I keep a file for each of my children with a label for the grade that they are in. Important papers that come home from school go into this folder. At the end of the year, we go through the folder together to determine what papers should be kept and what can go. It’s a fun project to do together in the summer reflecting on the past year. I keep a box that the folder goes into, this way, the keepsakes are organized chronologically through the years.

Artwork is the trickiest of all papers to organize because it doesn’t usually fit into a file folder or box. Sometimes artwork can be forced to fit by trimming it, but a better way (if you’re wiling to part with the tactile original artwork), is to take a digital photo. With a digital image, there are many ways you can store the artwork and you can even create beautiful keepsake books as a memory. One company that makes a beautiful artwork keepsake book is The Little Author, you send them the artwork and they take high quality images of each piece of art and compile it into a beautiful book. You can also take your own images and create a digital book from Shutterfly  or one the many services out there that compile beautiful digital books. Keeping artwork on display (within reason) helps your child to know their work is appreciated, but keeping too much can cause clutter and chaos. Reevaluate from time to time which artwork to keep displayed, and remember, if you keep too much you can’t find what’s really important!
Posted on September 2, 2016
By Monica FrielHome Organizing2 Comments
Tags:artworkchaos to orderget organizedkeepsakesorganizing artworkorganizing childrenpaper organizingschool work
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Monica Friel is president and founder of Chaos to Order. Monica manages and trains a staff of professional organizers who specialize in everything from household clutter to corporate chaos. She also represents brands and speaks publicly as an expert in the field of organizing. Learn more about Monica and Chaos to Order and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Google+.

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2 thoughts on “How To Organize Kid’s School Papers and Artwork”

  1. Pingback: Q: How Much of My Child’s Artwork Should I Save? — Chaos to Order
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    February 28, 2013 at 12:35 pm
    Andrea Lewis

    I love that you included Brett’s awesome Mona Lisa! (And the tips are great too!)

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