I’m a newbie parent on the school scene. School’s out and I didn’t know to do with all Luca’s creations. All I could think is “I cannot keep every thing these three kids make until they are 18! Where will I put all of it?” So I decided to make a couple collages with my phone of our favorites. Here’s how.

Mr. Man keeps drawing and drawing. They’re all precious masterpieces ;)

The pile grows.

Halfway through the school year I started putting all his crafts in one of these Ikea magazine boxes. I suppose when all three kids are in school I could have one for each.

I took pictures of 12 of our favorites on my phone, did a little editing right there on the phone and put them into two collages with the app Poto. They look like this:

So what do you do with the collages? I make a yearly photo book, so I can add them in like this:

This was pretty simple to do and didn’t take much time. What do you think? How do you handle your budding artist’s masterpieces?

P.S. Here is Luca’s preschool graduation picture. I can’t believe I paid $32 for this and a class picture. But it’s just so cute I couldn’t help it! They got me.

This was the best photo we could do at his graduation. Marcello was in Italy and we always take the worst family photos anyway. Minutes after this Adriano said his tie was making him too hot and took all his clothes off before he got in the van. All of his clothes, down to his underwear. It was such a ridiculous spectacle that my mom and I had tears we were laughing so hard!

Anyway, I didn’t know preschool graduation was a thing. It sort of makes my eyes roll and heart flutter at the same time.

If you’re not ready to file those masterpieces in the trash, you could make an art wall like this.