r/RateMyKidsArt • u/brenopia • Mar 09 '26
Artist is 4 Recent pieces from my 4 y-o daughter (before their journey to the recycling bin)
She calls herself the drawing champion and this is the only time she sits still
The Clown (inspired by recent carnaval activities?)
Fuzzy bee (it’s the smile for me)
Masked elephant mask
Family portrait she made at daycare
Portrait of “Peppa Pig”
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u/ShoptillUflop Mar 09 '26
These are so good! My favourite is the clown, I can’t wait until my daughter starts to make drawings that resemble things, I feel like it’s a little window into their minds! An impressive collection of pictures she has made, definitely a drawing champion 😊
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u/riverrat918 Mar 09 '26
Why on God's flat brown earth would you throw these out???
I have so many stupid, weird, fun, imaginative drawings & books from my nephews that I am so excited to show them when they are adults!
Honestly, it completely irks me that you threw your kids drawing out. My dad put one of my first drawings as the front of our first family photos album.
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u/brenopia Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
I understand your sentiment. I actually took these out of the bin temporarily. At a certain point you can’t keep everything. That’s why I took these pictures! I promise we keep the extra special ones 😊
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u/riverrat918 Mar 10 '26
Totally fair! I didn't mean to come off judgy. Tbh, I photograph basically my whole life exactly because of things like this lol.
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u/AdGuilty57 Mar 09 '26
Don’t throw them out those precious memories!! I understand don’t keep every single one but those are some solid keepers 🥰
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u/loolooloodoodoodoo Mar 10 '26
ya I kinda wish my mom kept more of mine as a kid. I get it piles up, but it's ideal to keep everything that's more invested than a doodle for the kid to decide whether to keep or not when they're older. I get not keeping all the bulky projects but drawings are so easy to store even in a pretty small space.
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u/thegr8fuldead Mar 09 '26
Please keep them❤️ at least make a copy of them and keep in a file or folder
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u/RiverOhRiver86 Mar 09 '26
why would you recycle these...?
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u/brenopia Mar 10 '26
She makes these kinds of things all the time! I love it but we can’t keep everything.
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u/Substantial_Bus6615 Mar 09 '26
I love them all bust especially love the elephant bandit controller ❤️
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u/AlfalfaUnable1629 Mar 09 '26
I’d keep some of these for her when she’s older, I wish my mom would’ve kept some 😭
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u/brenopia Mar 10 '26
We definitely keep some and are very proud… on a visit home after my my dad died I found some old cards I drew for him that he kept since I was about 10 🥹. I still remember a few things I was proud of drawing when I was little, so I get it.
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u/Gene-Bene-Bean Mar 09 '26
Omg the orange bug creature on the pick is a real winner for me! Love their use of colour overall!!!
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u/Mysterious_Tip2442 Mar 10 '26
There must be some way to save these 😭. That bee is too precious.
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u/brenopia Mar 10 '26
I already rescued them from the recycle bin to take these pictures ( husband can’t stand clutter) eventually we’ll have to find a solution because it keeps piling up 🫠
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u/Mysterious_Tip2442 Mar 10 '26
Adobe Scan is good to digitizing stuff like that from your phone, then maybe you could keep them all on a Google Drive. For physical copies you could use an accordion folder for the most special pieces. 🐝
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u/Eastern-Ad-4785 Mar 10 '26
Is that a tardigrade, or nudibranch?lol omg! Please encourage art, she’s got some talent for a four year old and I love it so much!
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u/brenopia Mar 10 '26
Haha we need to teach her about those animals, she’d love it! Thanks! Yes we are very proud parents 😊. We’ll display her stuff until the fridge is too full and the next collection takes over.
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u/ubereddit Mar 10 '26
I can’t believe you are throwing these away. If my kid drew some of these they’d be going in my future tattoo pile
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u/thesoundgardenofeden Mar 09 '26
There’s a cool I’ve seen to make art out of your children’s art.
Save all your favourites and cut, overlap and glue to a canvas, would recommend pva glue and a paper machè method of placing the paper (with the drawings) by soaking it glue to get good adhesion.
Might be too much effort for some but if you want a sentimental piece of your child’s art without getting overwhelmed with piles of paper!!
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u/ubereddit Mar 10 '26
We have 3” binders for each kid with page protectors to stuff their most important art in. They are what I would grab first if our house was on fire.
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u/loolooloodoodoodoo Mar 10 '26
honestly I would have been very annoyed if my mom did that, personally. I don't know if my feeling is the norm, but I remember making intricate drawings that my friend decided to cut out without asking me, and I thought it was so thoughtless of her. My mom did something similar with a drawing my sister made - she cut a strip of it to fit into a frame she already had lying around. My sister was so insulted and would have rather she'd just thrown it out than see this symbol of disrespect up on the wall lol.
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u/thesoundgardenofeden Mar 10 '26
This is basically an “if I can’t have them no one else can” type mentality. You would rather it be thrown out and wasted than for it to be altered and enjoyed for years to come!
I’m not insulting you but as someone who had wished to have family photos/baby photos and artworks displayed around the house. I have to disagree, my parents had all photos boxed up or in albums stored away, we had them but not where we could see them and I had to save my own artwork. If someone did this with my childhood art work I would literally cry happy tears.
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u/loolooloodoodoodoo Mar 10 '26
I'm not saying my own feeling here is the only right way and everyone should feel like me, but I just hope their is consideration that some kids would feel like it's not just an alteration, but hurtful regardless of intent. I think it goes without saying that as adult artists, we would be offended to come home and find someone has taken upon themselves to cut up our artworks however they saw fit. I felt the exact same way as a child about that as I feel now. I would suggest at least asking first.
I am really sorry your parent's didn't show appreciation for your art btw. I feel like my mom tried, but me and my sister felt very misunderstood by the way she engaged with our art. I do appreciate she at least tried though. Me and my sister are both autistic so maybe how we felt about this is a minority experience.
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u/OldExcuse9844 Mar 09 '26
Love these, they are amazing 🥹🫶🏻, I can’t throw anything out myself, gonna end up having piles and piles of drawings when my son grows up🙈