Hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed this beautiful weather. As the schools are all starting to go back now, I thought it was a perfect opportunity to do a post of effective ways to display children’s artwork.
If you have a child 3 or over, I am sure you have already been inundated with their “masterpieces” from their nursery or early school years. When my youngest started nursery, I used to blue tack all the best ones up on the wall, nicely laid out to create a gallery style wall and then a couple of days later my daughter would come back with a handful of new paintings which she delightfully handed me to go up on the wall. Now I know I should have just thrown away the old ones, but I am terribly sentimental, so they ended up squeezed on the wall or pushed into a draw when there was no more space.
After speaking with other mothers this was a common problem (first world, I know) so I began to do some research on some effective ways to display them without having them take over your home. Hopefully these will give you a solution to the usual slap on the fridge with an ugly magnet.
£24.99
These are brilliant as they keep the artwork in the gallery position or where they work for your space. The frames can be fixed to the wall in a landscape or portrait position and come in sizes A3 and A4. Once you have a piece of artwork you want to display the front opens like a book and you place it in the frame and click it shut. It can hold a maximum or 50 pictures so you can put the newest at the front and you don’t have to feel guilty about throwing an old one away.
Look What We Made Sign + Extra Blank Sign by GrowandCompany on Etsy
£49.17
These signs come in various wood finishes and are great at keeping artwork all in one place. The pegs can be moved to fit the size of the paper and there are options to have different text.
£13 for the wire and £3 for 24 hooks
Who doesn’t love an IKEA hack. This one is great one, all you have to do is hang the curtain wire on the wall where you would like the artwork to hang and add the clips and you have a perfect space to hang all the your children’s masterpieces. Another similar way is to use a curtain pole and hang the work in the same way.
Photo credit: Ohhdeedoh
Barney and Wilf, Little Art Made Big
from £66 to £395
This option is a fantastic way of displaying all your favourites that you have acquired over a school year. Once you have picked all your favourites, Barney and Wilf make high quality copies and create big contemporary prints to display in your home.
I hope these options have given you some ideas. They are only little for such a short while so lets enjoy their little doddles and have fun creating your family’s own gallery.
Will you use any of these concepts to display your children’s artwork? What method do you use in your home?