Do you have piles of kids’ art coming out of your ears?
I do. I imagine you do, too.
I’ve written about organizing and storing art here since early 2008. I display kids art on the wall and have since day one. Yet I still have art piles to contend with.
We all do, right?
Last year I made a New Year’s resolution to get and stay more organized with the kids’ artworks, but life happened and the organization didn’t so much.
So I’m beginning again this year.
I’m pretty happy with the start I’ve made so far. I created posters to highlight my daughters’ art using a service provided by Itsy Art.
Thank you to Itsy Art for sponsoring this blog post! As always all opinions expressed are my own.
Display Kids Art on a Poster
Heads up :: Make sure to enter the Itsy Art giveaway at the end of this post.
I’ve long been attracted to the idea of creating a poster of my children’s artworks, so when Itsy Art contacted me about trying out their service and writing about it here, it was a no brainer. I said, of course!
First I chose which kids’ art display poster I liked best (they have several options including the basic collage with and without the child’s name, a state, US map, name and fingerprint art, and calendars). I picked the one called Kids’ Art Focus. I like the one with the name and year, too, but knew that I’d have artwork spanning a couple of years.
The next step was to select a dozen artworks for each child’s poster.
I involved Maia and Daphne in the selection of their own art for these posters, because they are of the age where they are opinionated about which of their artworks they like and don’t like and I was planning to hang the posters above their beds (as well as share them in a blog post).
If you have a toddler or preschooler, you could probably make the selection yourself just fine.
Or, if you want to involve your child but make the process a bit quicker and attempt more control, make the initial selection and then solicit feedback. “I thought these twelve artworks were wonderful representations of your art making over the past year and wanted to make a poster out of them. Is there anything you would add or take out?”
I took photos of each of the artworks (Itsy Art has some basic tips on photographing your child’s art, if you need them) and uploaded the digital files to the Itsy Art website.
The folks at Itsy Art took the photos, cropped each into a square to fit their format, and arranged them into the collage poster, then sent me proofs to review.
For Maia’s poster, I had them alter the cropping of a couple of the artworks. For Daphne’s, I approved the poster as it was.
I received a 2nd proof of Maia’s and was totally happy with it and hit approve.
Itsy Art printed the posters and they arrived on my doorstep in sturdy cardboard tubes.
They were very well wrapped for safe delivery.
And the overall quality of the posters is excellent. The paper is thick and satin-ny—gorgeous to the eye and to the touch.
Itsy Art did a great job with the color reproduction of the artworks, too.
A very few of the reproductions are slightly more saturated in color than the originals, but in those instances I noticed it in the original proof I was sent and could have requested that they change it but didn’t. (Sometimes a little extra saturation is appealing.)
The posters look great! And what a fun way to highlight and display kids art!
I found frames at Michael’s (a two for one deal as the big craft stores often have in the frame section) and hung the newly framed posters above the kids’ beds.
They were so excited to see them!
We were all pleased with how the posters turned out.
If you’d like to order posters of your children’s artwork as a display and organization tactic or as a gift, I recommend giving Itsy Art a try.
You can see their kids’ collage poster options here.
Or read more about how it all works here.
This blog post is sponsored by Itsy Art; as always all opinions expressed are my own.
Itsy Art Giveaway
For a chance to win an e-gift card valued at $75 to use toward the Itsy Art poster of your choice, leave a comment to this blog post by Wednesday, January 27th at 11:59 PM EST then come back up to the Rafflecopter widget displayed above and click the box saying that you are entering the giveaway. Winner will be chosen randomly on Thursday, January 28th and contacted via e-mail. Winner has 48 hours to respond or an alternate winner will be chosen. Giveaway open to readers in the United States who are ages 18 and over.
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What a great idea!! I usually take a picture of my kids art but then there it goes where no one can see it. Thanks for the advice!
Love it! There’s something so beautiful about seeing all of the different styles and techniques represented together. And the colors are beautiful!! Thanks for sharing this, Jean. :-)
I would love to win this giveaway! I love my children’s artwork and hate that most of it is sitting in plastic tubs. I hang what I can, but so,many other pieces are out of sight. This is such a fabulous idea.
This looks so awesome!
I enjoy your blog posts. So inspiring to me and my child!
This looks like such a great idea! Even though my little one is turning 12, she is still making some pretty amazing art, and sometimes just throwing it up on our rotating art board isn’t enough. I love this idea, thank you so much for sharing!
Great idea! Each of my three children has an ‘art box’ where they store away treasured creations. This would be a great way to let some of those masterpieces come out from storage.
This is a very cool, fantastic idea!! I feel bad if I don’t display her artwork – running out of wall space.
This is such a great way to keep kids art!
What an awesome way to display kid art and save space!
this is great! I’ve been taking pictures of my kid’s art to put in a book, but I like the poster idea much better.
What a beautiful way to honor our little artists!!! Absolutely Love It!
Love it!! Thank you for the chance to give itsy a try, what a great idea :-)
Neat!
That is a great idea… I need to do this so I can pitch some stuff lol…
This is such a beautiful idea!
What a wonderful idea!! I have a 8 year old daughter who is constantly drawing and coloring.
This is such a great idea, with four kids my art files are unruly at their best!
This looks awesome!
What a beautiful way to pay homage to the work they do!!!
What a cool idea! Thanks for the giveaway and the chance to win a gift card! :)
I have the BIGGEST pile of my kids artwork! This would be a fabulous solution to what is quickly becoming a hazard ? Thank you for the giveaway!
The posters turned out great. I really love the posters and the art.
This is a fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing. And I want to win the giveaway.
I love, LOVE this idea!
Thank you so much for sharing.
I love this idea, yours turned out great!
This is such a great idea! My daughter has recently become much more willing to recycle her pictures which is helping me be a little less buried, but I love the idea of making the special ones into one big piece of art. Thanks for sharing!
love this idea .. we got so many arts that need to be organized somehow … we can’t keep hanging them on the wall tho they are all pretty :-) thanks for the chance.
Beautiful posters and an excellent way to deal with that mountain of kid art. I might give this a try.
What a cool way to save art in a beautiful and useful way!
What a great idea! I would love this for my son’s artwork.
This is SUCH a great idea!!!
This is a great idea! I am always looking for solutions on how to store my child’s artwork, and this is space-saving and beautiful! Thank you!
this is nothing short of AMAZING! With all these kids I keep having (ha!) man do I need this!
This is a really neat way to display kids’ art! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my. I have piles of art. I love the idea of these being yearly posters I give to the grandparents.
What a great idea!
Love this idea! I started making artwork books for my kids on shutterfly but love this idea also!
This is probably one of the most reasonable ways to store/display/celebrate my child’s art. There is SO much of it at 4!!! Thanks for this, love, love, love your site!
Love it thanks for the chance
What a wonderful idea! I would love this for my two daughters artwork!
They are so beautiful! I would love to do this with my autistic son’s artwork.
I LOVE this! I recently made a collage of my kids’ painting, but I used a whole bunch of frames and hung them over the couch. These posters would be awesome to hang on the huge blank wall next to the stairs. Thank you for sharing this!
I would love this so much for my 6 year-old daughter, Chloe Pearl! She is an aspiring artist and she wants to be an art teacher when she grows up. Art is her LIFE! <3
putting the art on a display poster board in an insanely good idea, we have a ‘gallery’ wall that we use to change them out accordingly. This sounds way easier and I adore the idea of having it hang above their beds.
What a great idea!
What a beautiful way to manage and showcase a child’s artwork! I will be checking out this for sure.
I love the idea of putting their art on a poster. Thanks for the chance to enter.
these turned out beautifully. I think id have a really difficult time narrowing down which pieces of art to include!!!
Thanks for the great idea here. On a different note, I love the headboards on the kids’ beds. Where did you get them from ? :)
This is such a great way to display kids’ work! I love it!!!
Cool posters
I I love this idea and would love to try it!
That is pretty cool – although then I’d REALLY feel obligated to hang the artwork:) Still – finding a place to hang one piece is better than 12. The photographing makes me nervous, but the tips are great. Thanks for the info and chance to win.
Those posters look gorgeous! What a great way to display kids’ art :)
Good idea. Thank you.
love this idea, my big plan for this year is to take photos of the girls’ work all year and then at the end create a calendar with the pics for our friends and family
What a fun idea.
I love this idea. To eliminate so much paper but preserve my daughters art
I’ve been putting favorite pieces of my daughter’s art into photo books (take a picture of the art and have the book printed and mailed to me), but we only see those when we take the off the bookshelf. I definitely love the idea of being able to see a bunch of old artwork in a small amount of space! Especially considering artwork is taped to every available space in my office (bathroom door? bookshelf with a suspiciously clean and blank edge? yes, there too).
P.S. all the super colorful art you picked out looks amazing together.
This is a great way to display all my daughter’s artwork. We don’t have a huge amount of wall space so this product would be absolutely perfect for us!
I LOVE this idea!
These are so neat! What a cool way to show the progression over the span of time, too!
Great idea ! This would make any space look beautiful . Thanks for the giveaway.
What a great idea! The finished project looks amazing!
Looks like a fun display
Beautiful! Love love love it :)
Such a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
I love to decorate my house with my kids art and this idea is wonderful to combine multiple drawings in one beautiful art!
Thanks!
Omg this would be a wall saver! My son literally has his entire wall covered in drawn super Mario pics and washi tape! I’d love to get them all organized into a nice poster so I don’t have mayhem on his walls aaaand I wouldn’t feel as bad about having to choose which ones to take down when we eventually move. Rental/military life!
Love, love , love the art collage. I would love to win and get an art collage to show off to friends ????.
I have been looking for a service just like this!
we would absolutely love to win this for Madison’s room. I notice a huge relation between self-esteem and art displays in kids! Her room is already covered in her art sometimes I have to choose not to keep pieces for certain reasons& this would be a nice way to preserve them.
This is a wonderful way to display their works of art. I have been stringing them up using wooden pegs and have been looking for other ways to display them. The collage makes it possible to display many drawings in a single frame and that’s perfect!
Thank you for the opportunity to participate.
Love it. I have mountains of artwork too!
What a wonderful idea! My son draws amazing pictures for hours every day. This would be a great way to display some of his favorites. :)
Love this idea! Definitely going to give it a try!
We need art organization ideas for sure!
This is such an adorable idea!!! You could do one every year with your favorite pieces! It would be fun to see the evolution over time. Thanks for the giveaway!
Awesome giveaway! So glad I saw this!!
This is awesome! I have so much of their art hanging and so much more in a box. My apartment is small so wall space is limited. This would solve so many problems!! Thanks!
This is awesome! I’m always looking for different ways to display my daughter’s art!
Love this idea! Something to Cherish always. Great present for dad too :-D