How-to make your kid’s art book

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If you have a little artist like me, this is a great solution for all their drawings they won’t let you throw away.

My boys, especially my two younger ones, are really into drawing. They’re constantly drawing characters, mazes, creatures, and more. Plus they’re bringing art and projects home from school!

Because of this, we have lots and lots and lots of papers everywhere. And they often don’t want to throw any of them away.

So I decided instead of keeping all these free floating papers, I would photograph each of them and put them in a book!

Mixbook makes beautiful custom photo books and made this art book project so easy

Of course I turned to Mixbook, our favorite custom photo book company, to make a beautiful photo book filled with kid’s art.

Mixbook makes it so easy to upload photos, choose a layout or make your own, and drag and drop the photos.

From start to finish this book took me about twenty minutes to make. And I can’t tell you how great it felt to throw away all those drawings afterward.

You could make new books once a year or every six months!

Mixbook has several sizes of books, so you could make these into little booklets that you could keep on a shelf in their room.

If you make one every six months or once a year, you could create a whole compilation of all your child’s artwork in beautifully bound books!

Here’s a few quick tips to make this process easy

To make this easy and efficient for you, here’s a quick step by step of how I do this.

1. Tell your child

   you’re making a photo book of all their artwork. Help them feel excited about all their artwork being in a book so they aren’t surprised when their artwork is thrown away!

2. Take a photo on your phone

   every time they do a drawing or bring artwork home from school. Or set aside time each week to go through the papers (keep them in a basket in the meantime). Lay it flat in good light and snap a picture. Crop it down to just the paper.

3. Try some variation — have them hold their artwork up and

   take a picture of them with their drawing

   !

4. Save all the photos in a folder

   on your phone.

5. Toss the artwork

   (unless it’s something you want to frame, obviously).

6. When you’re ready to make a book,

   all your photos will be ready to go

   in one place!

Mixbook has great deals on photobooks all the time — and they gave me a code MWHITE50 for 50% off your order!

They also have cards and prints and photo books, so make your child an artbook OR blow up one of your child’s best drawings for the wall, OR order birth announcements for your new baby, OR whatever the heck you want!

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