Well, it is that time of year… you know, when school ends! I am excited and sad at the same time!!!
Today, I am going to show you how I organized all my daughter’s school papers.
Welcome to Week 14 of our Organize your Life series!
I am following the book Organize Now! for my weekly posts but today (because school ends tomorrow), I will show you what I did this week instead of my weekly challenge.
I already showed you here, how I keep a file for each child. Each day, when Grace brought home her work, I would hang them on the fridge. After that, I would save them in her file.
Yesterday, she brought home a bag of artwork and worksheets from school so I thought we would make our binder.
I took out everything that I had and we got to work!
I picked up some sheet protectors (to protect her work) and a new binder.
We started to fill the sheets.
It was a lot of fun looking through everything! :)
I LOVED this Mother’s Day Poem that her class made for us Moms! :)
Grace really liked helping me and looking at all of her work too!
Since her favorite color is pink, we used pink scrapbook paper to decorate the binder.
I also printed out a K (for kindergarten) and her name.
Now, we have a nice binder to look at.
I love this one picture…
Grace LOVES her book and she has looked at it a million times already, ha!
My challenge for you this week is to make a keepsake binder, box or something like that for your children/grandchildren’s school work and post to here!
I can’t wait to see them! :)
Please post up your organizing project of the week below!
Have a great day! :)
Bonnie
Very cute! I do this with my boys color pages we do at home. (sense there not in school yet) They share a binder for now, but it looks like once they start school i'm going to have to use seperate binders. :)
ReplyDeleteI really like this idea! My little one is not yet in school, but this will be great next year when she is in preschool! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteFunny that you posted this... I just bought a binder at Target to do this with my girls' things. I didn't think about doing one per year though, I was just going to cram it all in one binder. Separating per child/year is a much better idea!! Can't wait to do this!
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely idea! I taught Kindergarten for three years before becoming a stay-at-home mom and to see you take the time with your daughter to make this makes my heart smile! Children take so much pride in their work and love to showcase it. Grace is lucky to have such a wonderful mother who cares so much about her and her takes time to do activities like this for her. I'm sure she will look back on that binder many times in the years to come and it will bring her great happiness. I look forward to perserving my sons art work in the future just like this!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful idea. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteMe ha encantado la idea para guardar los trabajos de tu hija tomo nota y voy a intentar hacerlo tambien, yo tambien estoy algo triste pues los niños terminan el cole ya y los debemos de tener todos los dias en casa y los mios se aburren mucho, tienen 22 meses y 3 años y medio. Tu hijos que edades tienen??
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for all your sweet comments!! :)
ReplyDeleteHave a great day!
Bonnie :)
Thank you so much for this blog and your ideas and creativity. I have 2 kids who haven't even started school yet, but they have so much artwork from Mother's Day Out already.
ReplyDeleteQUESTION - Do you keep ALL her artwork for that year or how do you determine what to keep? Also, what about their artwork that they do at home...do you include that in the binder too? I'm sure I can figure out what works for us, but was just curious about what you did. Thanks!
Hi Claire!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your sweet comments! I wish I could help you but things are always changing around here so I a can't say. We did folders and that worked. Now, I am just just piling everything on top of the fridge, lol! We got behind during the basement project. I really only keep our favorites, although, that still seems to be a lot, lol! I hope this helps!
Enjoy your weekend! ;)
Bonnie