The Gallery Kit — a Sage & Page companion
Frames, labels and somewhere to write the date, so the good ones stop disappearing under the sofa.
Most of what a child draws is gone within a fortnight. Not because anyone meant to lose it. It goes in a pile, the pile moves, and by the time it turns up again nobody remembers which one it was or when they did it.
This is eight pages of the small practical things that stop that happening. Two full-page frames, one green and one gold, to mount a finished drawing inside. A sheet of cards for the back of the page with room for a name and a date. Six fridge labels, including one that says do not throw this one away and one you fill in yourself.
The last page is about putting a small wall together. Hang them at their height rather than yours. Leave a gap, because room for one more is an invitation and a full wall is a finished project. Keep the early ones, since a page from when they were four next to one from when they were seven is the best thing on there. Photograph the wall once a year, because paper does not last and a photograph of a wall of paper does.
Hanging a drawing will not make a child better at drawing and we are not going to tell you it will. It tells them the thing they made was worth keeping, which is a smaller claim and a truer one.
Eight pages, US Letter, instant download. Made by us, not scraped from the book. Print it as often as you like.
For enjoyment at home. Not a teaching programme, an assessment, or developmental advice.
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