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Photographing the Artwork:
Another option for including over-sized, non-acid free artwork in your scrapbooks is to simply take pictures of the masterpieces. Two ways to do this are: 1) Photograph your child holding the pieces, 2) Set-up a gallery (of sorts) on a bulletin board or on the refrigerator and photograph your child standing in front of the pictures. Both of these ideas allow you to see in the picture both the wonderful creations your child made and how old your child was when he made them. Then, you simply include these pictures in your scrapbook layouts.

Laminated Books
One mother I know, saves select pieces of artwork for an entire school year and then takes them to the local teacher's center and has them laminated and bound into a "picture book." In this way, you won't actually be including the art in your family scrapbook, but you will be preserving it both for the future and for your child to be able to flip through as he wishes. Making a special book in this way will make your child feel that you thought his work was significant enough to be treasured.

Online Art Galleries
What if you want to share your child's artistic accomplishments with friends and relatives far away? How about displaying some of it in an online art gallery. You can create your own gallery of your child's artwork on Facebook. Of course once you have scanned in the work for online display, you can also print it out to include a copy in your scrapbooks.

Happy Scrappin'
Rebecca

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