When I was a kid I used to be obsessed with receiving post! To this day one of my favourite books in the whole world is the Jolly Postman by Janet and Alan Ahlberg. I can’t wait to buy it for Small (she will not be allowed to touch the letters!). Obviously post becomes more boring (and irritating) as you become an adult… bills, flyers (for stuff you’ve unsubscribed from a million times and they still don’t seem to have got the message!) and other crap. Even some packages don’t have that excitement factor (well that depends on the contents I suppose…). But I have discovered something that really does recreate that early feeling of joy of receiving post… nursery artwork!
One of the definite benefits of nursery is the creation of little masterpieces which I (1) do not have the patience to create with her – my crafters curse is everything must be perfect, I am not an artist and I cannot freestyle for fear of the mess… (2) I don’t have to worry about cleaning up, and (3) I don’t have to panic about how much paint, tissue or glue she is putting in her mouth rather than on paper. In this case out of sight really is out of mind!
The wonderful this is we never know when one of these little gems is going to come home! They just appear!! And when they do I am filled with this amazing feeling of joy, wonder, pride and a degree of confusion as to what it actually is!
But we have an issue… we have a tiny fridge and it’s really low down, so the traditional home of the kid’s artwork is unavailable. So how to display this array of masterpieces? Well how else would you display it but in a gallery of course!
I am not going to take the credit for dreaming up this idea, this was all Pinterest! But I am so thrilled with the result, and it was really easy to do.
Materials
- Frames in various colours and sizes (I used Fiskbo from IKEA)
- Twine
- Mini pegs
- Hot glue gun and sticks
- Scissors
- To Make
- (1) Remove back and inserts of frame so you have just the frame itself
- (2) Cut a length of twine to string across the inside of your frame
- (3) Hot glue in place
- (4) Using mini pegs clip your masterpiece inside the frame.
- (5) Repeat with as many frames as you need
- (6) Arrange on the wall
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I also die cut some letters to make a gallery title sign, but you could string named bunting, mount cardboard letters or use any other medium to personalise the space. As it’s in our dining room I couldn’t got too crazy!
The beauty of using the mini pegs means we can interchange the exhibition pieces as she creates more and becomes even more accomplished!
One thing I will acknowledge is I did look at it the other day and think about Gaylord Focker’s wall of achievement 😂!
