Today’s SNOW DAY Morning Mission: creating a gallery wall in my son’s bedroom!
As almost all parents-of-preschoolers do, we usually have about 600 pieces of kid art laying around the house. It just so happens that this weekend we went through and culled that down to about 100 pieces, which we put in a desk organizer on a bookshelf with the intent to work through it monthly and keep, scan, purge, or mail to grandparents. So naturally, this morning after a marathon game of Chutes and Ladders (did you KNOW how long that game can go on???) I grabbed the art organizer, called over my artist and assistant curator, and we got to work.
First we picked out about 20 things my son wanted to see up on the wall. We also found and printed some photographs. I let him choose about six rolls of washi tape for the “frames” (I love this Etsy shop for fantastic, fairly inexpensive tape). We also used a few existing frames and mats; by the way, I love these 2-pack NYTTJA frames from IKEA for kids’ rooms.
After about half an hour of “curating” we started the assembly. I’d love to say this was carefully thought out (as a client’s wall would be) but we just started tacking things up and filling in the holes. I was careful to hang the actual frames a little higher than I thought he’d reach or hit while playing.
This is what we got:
A few of the highlights are the origami dinosaur and crane, which are essentially “seat-belted” the the wall…
Some of his early writings…
And this ice cream cutout, which is paired with a “menu” he recently gave me as breakfast suggestions (nice try). 
If the tape doesn’t stick very well or comes unglued, you can hit it with a hot hairdryer to gum it onto the wall a little bit more. But don’t worry, it won’t damage your wall (that’s the beauty of washi-tape). It will also keep your paper free of rips if you remove it (just pull slowly and carefully).
Now if tomorrow’s another snow day, I have NO IDEA what we’re going to do!
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