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Not yet. I saw a great idea on Pinterest, take pics of their art with your phone and then make them into a photo book. I hate keeping paper around!

I really hate keeping extra stuff... even when I was a kid I would sort through my art and throw out the stuff I didn't think was that good. I was never a hoarder lol.

So hopefully my kid is like that too but if not I'll do my best to make sure she never sees her artwork in the trash. Maybe I'll even take it directly to the outside trash bin.

Yes. I was corrected that he made that for me!!! So I kept it another week and then threw it away when he wasn't around and I was taking out the trash.

Yes, we throw it away together because we take high res photos of all artwork to create photo books! We do the same with his lego creations, etc.

I got caught once by the kids I nanny for and they were bewildered by it too. I did later that day fess up that sometimes we create art for the joy of making it and sometimes we love the final product but that it's ok to recycle the ones we don't love. Thankfully that became part of our clean up from art projects-- keep or recycle. They even caught on that some could be keep for a few days type of thing which made life soooo much easier. Frankly though, a lot still went into the trash later but they knew we at least were valuing their time and energy at the time.

Not my own kids, but once one of my 1st grade students saw some art work in the recycling box. I always kept a lot of the cute art work they made me, but it got the the point where I had to get rid of some of it! I felt so bad and from then on only recycled after school. Luckily the child's response was "I think you accidentally recycled this Mrs. M'" and then put it back on my desk.