My kindergartner is the most prolific artist in the house. Allow me to present to you five from his recent series of monsters and beasts (incredibly adorable until you realize that they’re all holding weapons and shooting poison from their spiky appendages).
I really love all most of what he creates but I can’t possibly store all his artwork. I mean, really, we only have so much wall and shelf space.
Enter the kid art storage app!
I started using Artkive to manage our ever-growing art collection earlier this year at the recommendation of CoolMomTech. It really works for me. I photograph each drawing right into the app and then categorize it by artist, schoolyear, and date. From there, I can make custom digital or printed albums. It also lets me share among circles of his interested art fans.
I’m already grateful to have a place to put sweet little recyclables like this toddler masterpiece from Sawyer; I might feel nostalgic for it if I tossed it out.
Wait. Is that upside-down?
I have heard of other apps worth trying out: Art My Kid Made (check out this review on cnet) and Evernote (which I hear does everything but I haven’t figured it out yet), but I’m pretty satisfied with the features on Artkive.
Find ArtKive for FREE on iTunes.
What’s your strategy for saving and organizing kid art? I’ll share some non-app ideas in another post.
<3 this app! My family always yells at me for throwing artwork away but know I can safely tell them that it's okay because I saved it! So great 🙂
Yeah, Elizabeth, I still find that I have to recycloflage all the artwork when nobody is looking but at least I can sleep at night knowing it’s backed up.
Nice! I’m so sick of piles and piles of precious paper laying around in every corner of every room. I’ve been trying to think of a way to get these budding artists to store their art in a more organized way 🙂
Just downloaded the app! I am excited about this one. It’s like an overshare instagram feed filled with kids art.
Jen, I have to admit I haven’t tried the sharing yet; but if you’re gonna, I suppose I could get braggy on a new channel.
These are kinda cool too, if you want low-tech! http://www.dynamicframes.com/store/c/159-Kids-Art-Frame.aspx
@Karen, I’ll have to give that some thought when we do our non-techy round-up of ways to deal with and best appreciate kid art. It looks cool.