Keepin’ it Real Thursday: Glitter and Glue
This post might get me in trouble.
But I’m just being honest and real.
It’s more like a confession, I guess. And here it is.
The “crafts” and “pictures” my kids make in church rarely make it in the car on the way home.
I know! I know! It sounds horrible. But let’s be honest, if I kept everything my sweet kids brought home, my house would be a candidate for TLC’s Hoarders. Don’t get me wrong, I keep the special things. But those things are few and far between.
And my all-time worst nightmare upon picking up my kids from their little classes. Deep breath.
GLITTER atop UNDRIED GLUE!
The thought makes me shudder.
Case in point:
This is a picture of the passenger’s seat in my car and the result of sweet Estella Dru’s latest project. The girl caught me trying to throw it into the trashcan before getting into the car (dang it!) and pleaded for me to bring it home. Not wanting to be the evil mother that I appeared, I agreed.
One ruined car seat and a glitterized favorite purse later, Estella had forgotten all about her beloved craft, and I had learned a valuable lesson. It is as follows: There is never a justifiable reason to put a piece of wet, glue-slathered paper, covered in colorful glitter into a vehicle, no matter how much you adore the child who made it. Never. (You may need to write that down. Or commit it to memory. It’s that valuable.)
It was a hard lesson to learn.
What’s your practice of keeping your kids’ pictures and crafts? Are you a keeper or a trasher? (Be easy on me.)
I take a photo, then toss the art. In the summer, I try to put all the “art” photos on a cd and throw it in the file with the VERY SELECT few pieces of art I’ve saved throughout the year.
That is an awesome idea! I’ve done that with a few things they have done, but probably not as much as I should!
I am a trasher. When Emma first went to Kindergarten, i tried to keep everything. Unfortunately, that lead to a cabinet full of papers that no one is ever going to look at again. (I still haven’t cleaned that out…OOPS!) But, I stopped keeping everything. I keep the special stuff (I think we have a total of 5 papers from 1st grade) and the rest just goes in the recycle bin. Hannah’s stuff is the same way. Catherine even brings home stuff from school, but all of her’s goes in the trash…trust me, she is no 2-year old Monet!
I am a trasher! Those lovely trash cans outside the doors of the church are my saving grace. We praise them for doing such a good job and then while they are racing each other to see who can get to the car 1st, I secretly toss them. Next to glitter, needs to be cereal; there is NO good craft idea that involves gluing cereal to a paper!!! (it never dries)
We do keep the REALLY good projects as keepsakes, but I am FAR from being a hoarder, and you know why!
I am a trasher unless it involves handprint/feet prints ( I am a sucker for those–I will keep them forever:-) I will sometimes at least take them home but they will go in the trash after a few days, or another favorite thing to do is to gift them to the grandparents–then they can be the bad guys that throw them away:-) I agree about the glitter–as a former KDO teacher, I cannot fathom why anyone would do that to themselves, let alone the parents:-)
Carolynn, absolutely love the grandparent idea! I’m stealing. : )
I am right there with ‘ya sister! I put my foot down when the glitter and glue adhered itself to my then beautiful new Hobo! Oh how I despise the Sunday morning, soggy wet glitter and glue papers!!
I have to admit it too…I trash the stuff as soon as Kyleigh isn’t looking! What’s bad though is when she sees it in the trash hours later & gets upset. Then, of course, I have to take it back out of the trash! LOL!
I’m a trasher! I go to great lengths to not get caught…but I sometimes do, which yes it then sits in a pile of clutter until I can time it just right and throw it away at the right time!
I take pic’s too…then I get busted by my 3.5 year old because she finds them in the garbage. It hurts my heart ~ I don’t want to upset her creativity…but if I blog about her cute artwork, then I feel better
When Alex was younger, I used to help him mail his crafts and some of his school papers to his grandparents. They would call him with they got them and he would get to tell them all about his masterpieces. They could also dispose of all of it and he would never know.
Jackie, I love this idea. Totally going to start doing it!!!
I keep only artwork with hand prints, fingerprints, or if it is just an amazing piece of art (majority are hand and finger prints). I agree, undried glue on anything should not leave the school or church where it was created.(period) I usually hold it in my lap until we get home and then throw it out when they have turned their head:)