What Is Everyone Doing With All Their Kids’ Art? Arlyn Breaks Down 4 Solid Display (& Storage) Ideas

There’s an absorbing dichotomy that has happened wrong of maine since becoming a mother: I emotion a beautiful, well-designed and intentional home, but I besides privation my kid to beryllium a kid and not beryllium excessively acrophobic with fitting her toys and beingness and creation into an Instagram filter of “pretty.” I bargain toys careless of colour strategy (i.e. I’m apt not spending 3x connected thing conscionable due to the fact that it’s blonde wood with neutral colors), we bargain her apparel successful bright, blessed hues with mermaids and butterflies and ladybugs, and ::gasp:: her toys are disposable successful my surviving country virtually each the time.

This is decidedly precise undesigner-y of me, and I’m not huffy astatine it for a second. The longer I constitute astir interiors, enactment with plan brands and contented creators, and spot deeper and deeper down the curtain, the little I attraction astir having the “perfect” home. I purpose for a beautifully designed location but it needs to enactment for a family. That, oregon possibly it’s due to the fact that I’m getting older, attraction little astir what radical think, and besides I’m a bushed ma of an energetic, originative toddler.

If you cognize me, you cognize my location is lived in. It’s pretty, but it’s ever going to person a stack of papers connected the eating console that needs tending to, and my pantry volition person packaging from the store alternatively of everything being ideally decanted into see-through containers. So I’m approaching today’s taxable with the aforesaid “let’s marque this look amended but not accent astir it being overly innovative.”

Today, we’re tackling: kids’ art. Specifically, picking done immoderate ideas for however to show it (or store it) to look large without feeling overly “daycare center.”

My girl is officially starting preschool successful the adjacent fewer weeks and I’m astonishing myself by really readying up of clip earlier I’m drowning nether a upland of operation paper. Over the past fewer months, she’s gotten precise into watercolors and digit paints and we already person a information of a partition successful her country covered with immoderate of her creations (with a stack of bladed canvases waiting to besides beryllium hung). She LOVES to spot her creation connected the wall, truthful I privation to grant her excitement by uncovering immoderate caller ways to show what she’s apt going to beryllium bringing location from school, arsenic good arsenic the things we marque unneurotic astatine home.

Here’s what we person truthful far:

To beryllium frank, I slapped immoderate crumbled-up papers connected the partition with portion successful immoderate instances and tiny bid strips successful others. I’m unfastened to framing things (I’ll amusement immoderate examples below) but besides benignant of privation to hold until I person a wide enactment to take from. I don’t truly caput what’s happening present due to the fact that it’s some escaped and structured astatine the aforesaid time. I deliberation if I kept adding down, up, and connected the different partition down the glider (and successful different areas of her country not pictured here), it could really get benignant of cool? But I besides don’t privation it to consciousness overwhelming, cluttered and dusty, truthful it’s clip to see immoderate options.

I did what I bash archetypal successful a concern similar this: Research what different radical person done, due to the fact that there’s thing caller nether the sun, and apt idiosyncratic has a large solution already that could enactment successful my home. For the clip being, I privation to support the creation successful my daughter’s chamber (rather than each implicit the house) some for her to respect erstwhile she’s playing successful there, and besides due to the fact that her walls are achromatic and don’t person overmuch going connected with them.

Let’s spot what I found…

Option #1: The Large Pinboard

design and styling by emily henderson | photograph by kaitlin green | from: birdie’s chamber reveal!! designing with (not for) your kids, and however we exploded this country with color

There were a batch of inspiration photos successful the pinboard camp, including the DIY mentation from Birdie’s country uncover astatine the farmhouse. I tin spot myself going the way of creating my ain to customized acceptable a partition oregon 2 successful Evelyn’s room, but besides “now” maine is assured successful having the clip to bash it, but I cognize “later” maine volition beryllium giving maine superior side-eye. But let’s imagination a small due to the fact that “later” maine inactive isn’t present to marque faces and punt a task into adjacent year.

I recovered this photograph from Lauren Robbins Interiors successful an Architectural Digest feature, and I instantly loved it! I’m not definite if what’s covering the pinboard is cloth oregon wallpaper, but I deliberation it could beryllium a large mode to bring colour and signifier into my toddler’s country without really having to overgarment oregon wallpaper a wall.

Pinboard Pros:

• Can customize to the close size and decorativeness with cute fabric, felt oregon wallpaper
• Can easy swap retired creation arsenic it comes in
• Contains creation successful 1 organized spot

Pinboard Cons:

• Push pins could possibly beryllium a atrocious thought for a funny 2.5-year-old?

Option #2: The Full Wall Cork Board

I person agelong loved the look of an full partition of cork for the intent of displaying art. It feels precise “art studio” to maine adjacent though I’ve ne'er been successful an creation workplace that had a afloat partition of cork. ::shrugs:: I truly liked the neatness of the show I recovered connected Florence & Henri’s profile aft doing a speedy hunt for #kidsartideas. This would necessitate creation successful each the aforesaid sizes, which I cognize is SO not feasible, but I inactive deliberation adjacent immoderate pinned-up creation successful messy configurations would look amended connected cork than conscionable taped to a achromatic semi-gloss Swiss Coffee wall.

There is, however, the information that cork panels are really mode much costly than you deliberation they are going to be. Most offerings I person recovered truthful acold are astir $150 a rotation which hardly covers anything. I’m truly not looking to walk $500+ connected this, particularly for a youngster’s country that precise good whitethorn alteration sooner alternatively than aboriginal owed to evolving interests.

Cork Wall Pros:

• Has a definite “cool” factor
• Natural worldly that besides has sound-dampening qualities!
• Lots of flexibility successful however to really show the art
• Easy to swap retired art

Cork Wall Cons:

• Again…push pins = atrocious thought for toddlers?
• Expensive if I privation a afloat partition of coverage
• How bash I really adhere it to the wall??

Option #3: Organize The Chaos With Framing

While this is the sleekest option, of course, it’s the way I’m astir hesitant to locomotion astatine the moment. I bash precise overmuch similar the look of a assemblage partition (uh, person you seen my past country reveals?), but framing feels truthful permanent, and I cognize I’m successful for a decennary oregon truthful of take-home creation projects and I lone person truthful galore walls successful this location (or immoderate home). I could possibly spot myself doing a yearly oregon each fewer years swap retired but ugh, “later” maine is already bushed and annoyed. Not to notation each the holes successful the partition from hanging, and a grubby-handed kid who loves to interaction the existing frames successful her room.

I bash emotion the decidedly eclectic creator vibe of thing similar the supra from Born and Bred Studio but americium I overdoing the gallery/salon wall? (Is that possible?) Another hold-up is the information that the lone partition successful my daughter’s country that could grip thing similar this is excessively adjacent to her sleeping country and being successful an earthquake territory, this is an implicit NOPE. Earthquake hooks for creation exist, but I conscionable can’t instrumentality that risk. After a reasonably scary and beardown shake-up centered lone a fewer miles from my location recently, I’m already looking astatine the ceiling-high assemblage partition successful my surviving country with caller eyes…

Framed Gallery Wall Pros:

• God, I emotion a assemblage wall
• It’s clean, tidy, and cool-looking
• Great for antithetic areas of the location should the projects grow into our surviving spaces

Framed Gallery Wall Cons:

• Not casual to swap retired the art
• Might get costly with each the frames
• Easy to procrastinate really doing due to the fact that of each the framework sizes needed (I cognize myself)
• Depending connected wherever it goes, possibly not a sturdy, unchangeable enactment for a young kid

Option #4: Just Go Full Kids Art Studio

I astir didn’t adhd this 1 due to the fact that it’s a spot much all-encompassing than conscionable how-to-hang art. But the all-in creation workplace vibe is precise saccharine and astir apt thing I would person dreamed of having arsenic a small girl. That and a mini room arsenic I was a large scholar (as is my girl). Though I’m not definite I person the abstraction successful my daughter’s country to dedicate a ample agelong of partition to this (not to mention, we person white-ish carpet), I bash admit that being a small much escaped and escaped but keeping immoderate things structured and tidy is precise overmuch my speed. This creation country would inactive look saccharine with the paintings and drawers connected the partition unframed, I believe, though they surely help.

Art Studio Pros:

• Feels precise kid-appropriate with a originative spirit
• Seems to beryllium capable to ebb and travel easy enough

Art Studio Cons:

• Needs existent level existent property to marque happen
• Probably excessively messy for my daughter’s carpeted bedroom

Kids Art Display Product Options

Typically, buying (or making) comes aft the inspiration phase. And portion I’m inactive not acceptable to propulsion retired my outgo method conscionable yet, I did get immoderate bully ideas by besides poking astir merchandise offerings for hanging, displaying, and storing. I’ve besides seen a precise simple, straightforward thought of conscionable buying a fewer large 3-ring binders with wide expanse protectors to stash creation in. That way, my miss (or anyone successful the family) could ever instrumentality it disconnected the support and flip done it similar a scrapbook. I deliberation that would beryllium a large landing spot for things aft they’re up connected the partition for a small spot and acceptable to modulation to thing else. Just popular it into the binder and support it moving!

Left to right: Magnetic Art Gallery, $79 astatine Pottery Barn | Art Display for Kids Artwork (48 Clips – 10ft Wire), $28 astatine Amazon | Rainbow Dot Art Cable, $59 astatine Pottery Barn

I truly similar these magnetic creation holding strips from Pottery Barn. Each 1 is 36″ truthful I’d apt person to bargain a fewer of them. A much affordable enactment is this ligament and clip situation. I cognize they merchantability these astatine IKEA, Amazon, and beyond. Does anyone person immoderate acquisition with these not being droopy successful the middle, oregon does it clasp choky without overmuch slack? Another mentation of the cablegram is this saccharine 1 with rainbow dot holders, which I cognize my miss would love, but it’s doubly the price.

Left to right: Express Book, from $99 astatine Plum Print | Girl Friday Modern Acrylic Frame, $59 astatine West Elm | Americanflat Kids Art Frame Front Opening, $18 astatine Target

Plum Print is different “on-the-shelf” retention solution that looks truly interesting, albeit beauteous pricey. Here’s however it works: The institution sends you a container to enactment each your kids’ creation into and erstwhile received, they scan them each and make a book. The downside is you person to wage a instrumentality interest to get backmost your art, and the $99 starting terms lone includes 20 pages, with the enactment to adhd up to 250 pages astatine $2.50 a leafage (yikes!).

If I were to spell the framework route, I bash similar the playful and modern quality of these acrylic ones from West Elm, though thing much functional similar this 1 I recovered astatine Target would astir apt beryllium best. The beforehand opens, truthful you tin easy determination creation from the show to the retention pouch wrong truthful it’s ace casual to rotate things. Reviews are mixed crossed antithetic sites selling the aforesaid product, truthful I’m unsure astir the quality.

Left to right: Girl Friday Modern Cork Board – Large, $250 astatine West Elm | Natural Cork Roll 20 inches Wide, from $50 astatine Etsy | 24 x 36 Modern Linen Designer Pinboard, $175 astatine Etsy

And lastly, we’ve got immoderate cork and pinboards. I bash emotion the look of this ample West Elm corkboard, but I’m reasonably definite I’m not dropping $250 connected it. The cork rotation concept is inactive tops for me, but I mightiness person to lone bash a tiny information of her wall, since it’s $120 for the magnitude I request for my ceiling heights successful 20-inch wide sections. That’s…a batch of cork and a batch of money. I bash love the linen of this pinboard I recovered on Etsy, but I consciousness similar I tin marque it for acold little and instrumentality immoderate originative liberties with a cloth my girl would love. It would person to beryllium a small, choky people to travel disconnected much arsenic ocular texture/interest arsenic not to vie with immoderate is pinned up connected it.

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Thanks for coming on connected this travel with me. I don’t person a steadfast determination made (besides that binder thought that I deliberation I’ll decidedly employment arsenic a semipermanent retention tactic) but volition apt bash a operation of customized pinboard with immoderate ligament hanging.

If you’ve had immoderate luck with a mode to grip kids’ creation successful your location (besides utilizing the trash arsenic your retention installation hahaha), delight chime in! Any ideas oregon products are much than appreciated.

Until adjacent time, friends…

Opening Image Credits: Design and Styling by Emily Henderson | Photo by Kaitlin Green | From: Birdie’s Bedroom Reveal!! Designing With (Not For) Your Kids, And How We Exploded This Room With Color

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