I typically only keep crafts that include handprints, footprints that don't have glitter, etc glued on.
Today LO came home with a craft that had cheerios glued on so I threw it out. She just took it out of the garbage (nothing was on top) to show me. She was so proud of it! Oops. 
kiwi / 548 posts
Haha, no! I hang up things that my kids are proud of, but eventually I throw it all out (oldest is 3.5). I started taking pics of everything before I tossed it, but then stopped. My parents and my husbands parents saved tons of grade school art work and gave it to us when we moved into our house. We threw it all out without looking at it, so I don't really see the point!
persimmon / 1458 posts
For the most part yes! It's ridiculous. 3 years worth of stuff. I've got to part with some of it, it's taking over our office.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
Nope! We only keep special ones. Otherwise we take pictures of them so we can make an album of the pictures.
kiwi / 506 posts
No! But we take pictures of most of them. Sometimes it's very obvious dd didn't actually do much, if any, of the crafting... In those cases we bring them home and "file" them away ...
coconut / 8430 posts
So far yes. But I think we need to toss most of it. There is just so much!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Mainly just the ones with handprints and footprints! I'm starting to keep more of DD's because she's actually the one doing them now. DS's are obviously done by the teachers.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Yep, I've kept everything with the exception of a Fruit Loops glue project.
I've also made the mistake of pitching something and I was promptly told "My art doesn't belong in the garbage."
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
i throw away most of them but sometimes they find them in the trash and ask why i threw it out! 
they make so much it's impossible to keep it all so i just keep the best ones.
pomegranate / 3127 posts
Yes, for now. They're just drawings and don't take much space. I'm a pack rat and still keep my best drawings from elementary school on 
at my parents', and all of them only take up a big drawer. Now if B starts bringing home 3D crafts, I'll need a new plan!
coconut / 8299 posts
I keep like 90%. I'll throw away the ones with glitter or tiny stickers since those get messy.
squash / 13208 posts
Briefly.
We have an art wall that I hang them on and as new stuff goes in I rotate and throw away.
I try to only keep the really nice things.
apricot / 457 posts
I keep most of them in a binder. We got plastic sleeves and just insert them in there. We don't get that many so even after 2 years of daycare, we're only at one binder still. I don't keep the pieces that are just random scribblings usually unless he was especially proud of it. One day when I picked him up, he went running back to the coloring table, madly scrambled through the papers and found his and came running back to me with it which I thought was so cute.
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