Mixbook collaborated with Crayola on the Kids Art Book theme, a playful design that celebrates the creativity of children. This project ensures your child’s treasured drawings, sketches, doodles, and other works of art survive the passage of time. Kids’ art has a tendency to get lost or damaged. Plus, prolific little artists can produce way too many works to save or display them all. Showcasing copies in a printed photo book is a great way to preserve all their favorites.
Fill this fun, colorful book with photos or scanned copies of your children’s summer art projects, or start an annual tradition to preserve your little artist’s four seasons of creativity. The Kids Art Book by Crayola also makes a delightful gift for grandparents, and a fabulous classroom project for educators.
How to digitize your children’s art projects
Before you head to Mixbook Studio™ to work on your Kids Art Book, you need to transform your selected works of art into digital photo files. Ask your child to help you choose which of their creations they want to display in the book. It’s easy to add more pages to a Mixbook, so there’s no limit on the number of art pieces you can include.
The best way to digitize art varies from piece to piece, and depends mostly on its size and shape. Consider the following options:
- Scan artwork with a flatbed scanner
- Use a scanning app on your smartphone
- Photograph the art from above, being careful to avoid shadows
- Photograph your child holding their artwork
- Zoom in on small details of the work
- Arrange art over interesting backdrops, such as a grassy lawn, pinned on a clothes line, or set on a colorful tablecloth
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Preserve summer art projects
For artistic children, summer break allows extra time to enjoy fun art projects. These might be at home, at a summer camp, while spending time with family and friends, or even during summer outings. At the end of summer, making a custom art book together will preserve all their creations as well as some amazing memories from the season.
Here are some examples of summer art projects to digitize for a fun-filled photo book:
- Summer camp projects: Arts and crafts are classic camp activities, so your kid probably returned from camp with piles of creations. Don’t just include paintings and drawings. Crafted items like tie-dye T-shirts, dreamcatchers, woven potholders, friendship bracelets, and painted rocks can also be photographed for your art book.
- At-home art projects: Summer break gives kids time to get extra creative at home. From coloring book pages and chalk art to handmade puppets and cardboard box forts, capture the summer projects your kid is most proud of.
Pro Tip: The contents of a Kids Art Book can also include photos of your child doing the art activity. Take these photos yourself, or browse your kid’s summer camp parent-share app for fun photos.
Make a memorable gift for grandparents
What do grandparents love the most? Easy! Anything their grandchildren created that comes from the heart. Gather up your child’s artwork to create a photo book that showcases their best creations. Be sure to include some photos of the kids as well—grandparents always adore seeing their smiling faces.
Have your child help select works of art that their grandparents will love and appreciate. You could even ask them to create a new work of art for the cover, such as a drawing of the grandparents. Other ideas to include could be school art projects, holiday-themed arts and crafts, and definitely any projects they worked on at their grandparents’ house.
Pro Tip: Customize the book by adding text from your children that describes the art to their grandparents in their own words.
Document a budding artist’s year in review
Every year, parents collect all sorts of art from their child’s school year as well as at-home projects. Most of this art never makes it past “fridge-worthiness,” often ending up as one more memory tucked into a mementos box, or eventually thrown away.
Turning your child’s work into yearly creative editions of a Kids Art Mixbook allows both you and your child to see the incredible progression of their creative skills year after year. They’ll be able to look back at their third grade volcano sculpture or kindergarten handprint turkey, and associate all those school memories with creative fun and learning.
Pro Tip: Title each work of art with the date, season, or class project to cement the project in time.
Capture creative milestones
It’s easy to miss just how much your child’s artistic skills have progressed over time. Gather art dating back to their first scribbles, all the way through to the latest, more skillful creations. Each one carries a story of that moment in time of your child's life.
Kids’ art collections don’t only reveal their improving artistic skills; they also document milestones and progressions in their life. There might be a drawing of the first goal they scored in soccer, or the day they rode a bike without training wheels.
Their ever-evolving works of art can be sentimental for the whole family. It’s so sweet to preserve their crayon drawings of a dearly departed pet goldfish, or see how their family portraits expanded with the addition of a new baby brother.
Pro Tip: Use the text in the book to personalize their milestones, e.g. first doodle, first portrait, or “Age 4 and obsessed with trains!”
Create a classroom showcase of student art
Compiling the artwork of an entire classroom of students into an art book is a very rewarding project for an educator. It also inspires pride in the students when they see their works of art celebrated on the printed page.
Making a classroom student art photo book can be a creative alternative to a traditional class yearbook. In addition, you can completely customize the book to the number of students in your classroom. For smaller classes, every student could get their own page to fill with the works they’re most proud of. Or, you might dedicate a two-page spread to a particular art project and include examples from multiple students.
Pro Tip: These art books make incredible parting gifts for students at the end of a school year.
Ready to customize the Kids Art Book?
Explore the Kids Art Book by Crayola theme with your own child. Use the opportunity to let the easy-to-use, drag-and-drop design tools in Mixbook Studio™ spark your child’s inner artist. They can choose which photos go in which frames, decorate the pages with fun stickers, and write their own captions and page headers.
Get creative, and remember this book is completely customizable, so you can make it all your own!
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