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What to do With Crafts?

March 7, 2008 By Jimmie Quick 1 Comment

Yes, we do a lot of crafts! And you may be wondering how we handle all these projects in our small apartment. We have no closets, no attic, and very little space altogether.

Pueblo Diorama

So what can we do with 3-D projects like this? Well, to be honest, they get thrown away! But not before documenting them with photos. Then the photos are uploaded to Flickr where they can be kept safe forever. (Flickr is a great tool for homeschoolers!) And we also blog them for a record. And as if that were not enough, I sometimes print out photos and add them to our notebook.

For example the WP notebook page for the Pueblo Indians was mostly text, with just a plain graphic. Not much for Sprite to do. And not at all engaging. So I printed out the photos of her 3-D project and let her select the most important paragraphs from the notebooking page. She designed this layout and came up with a much more engaging notebook page.

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  1. Ticia says

    September 10, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    We throw away most of our crafts as well. I just don’t want to store all of it. The large flat crafts are reused as wrapping paper, rather than buying it. This is wildly popular with grandparents who get to see their painting.
    .-= Ticia´s last blog ..Hot date with Mommy =-.

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