Commemorating Your Child’s Art

by biscuitsspace on October 28, 2026

Over the summer, I photographed all of Alex’s second grade artwork, including artwork made at summer camp, and made a book for her containing images of her art. This has become a summer ritual. Alex made many art pieces at school and at summer camp, and she loves that I have been making her books containing her art for the past several years! It is a great way to help encourage Alex to continue to make her art and to continue to be creative. I made a 40 page book of all of her first grade artwork, approximately 50 pieces of her artwork, via OnceUpon, and I selected the matte paper option. (A sampling is shown below.) The book turned out well, it is simple in design, and not as expensive to print as compared to other places where you can make books.

The best part is—I printed one of these books for Alex, and she loves looking at her art via this book, while simultaneously encouraging her to keep making her beautiful art—she is incredibly creative! The arts are really important, and we hope to keep fostering this love within Alex. I hope to continue to make yearly books of her artwork as a way of preserving her artworks! Here are Alex’s previous artwork books, which you can view here, here, here, and here. I am still making our family yearbooks, and I am a trying to catch up on the editing of our family photographs—these books are so meaningful!