Creative Ideas for Displaying Kids’ Artwork

The following are various ways to enjoy your kids' artwork, especially if you have a non-magnetic fridge:

Purchase an aluminum sheet at your local home improvement store and screw it onto a wall. Use this as your board to display your work, and the kids’ homemade magnets can hold their masterpieces in place! Don’t worry about it not having a frame, as the pages will extend a bit over the edges. If you overlap the work as to not show the metal, it will look like a classy collage that is always changing with the seasons.
Laminate the kids pictures, or place them inside of sheet protectors bound in a notebook.
Take digital pictures of artwork that you will not be keeping.
Send your favorite drawings in to have made into plates, mugs, mouse pads, and calendars.
Crop your kids’ drawings, then glue them over existing pictures of your wall calendar (99 cent stores usually have them).
Use the finger paintings and butcher paper sized art as wrapping paper.
Go to a photocopy store and shrink your kids’ drawings. Customize them to fit the photo frames that have multiple picture displays, or just put them in a brag book.
Frame the pictures, matting and all, then create a photo gallery on one wall.
Make greeting cards and paste your kids’ work on the cover.
Turn a painting or drawing into an iron-on appliqué and iron it on a T-shirt, pillowcase, or canvas bag.
Remember that kids’ artwork can brighten someone’s day. Have your kids give some of their pieces to people such as a family member, grocery clerk, teacher, caretaker, or neighbor. Perhaps they have it easy and have magnetic fridges!