school works

have i told you yet how much ava loves preschool?

well, she does. and we are so lucky to have such a sweet teacher to send her to, as well. they do such fun things and i'm amazed at how busy they are the whole 3 1/2 hours that they're over there. ava comes home with lots of paintings, drawings, projects and other school work and she's always so excited to open her backpack and show me what she did that day. i especially love to see her name scrawled atop her papers.

since she was bringing home so many things, the refrigerator was not the ideal place to display these fine works of art, and throwing them immediately in the trash or hidden away in a basket seemed like such a waste of her efforts, so instead i began thinking of ways i could organize/display her school work. i finally came up with this.

i used an old wooden curtain rod, spray painted it cream, then added some curtain rings with clips that i bought on clearance at target a few weeks earlier. it hangs in her room by her bed, so she can enjoy her pieces of art. she is so proud to see her work displayed for all to see. i love that i can teach her to be neat and organized by letting her choose which ones we should throw out when the hanging clips get full. with each new paper she brings home, we throw one of the old ones out. it has been a great solution and now we can fully appreciate her works of art in a tidy and organized fashion!