Display Your Kids' Art Tastefully With These 6 Ideas

A smiling woman watching how her unrecognizable daughter painting with a felt tip pen on a paper hanging on a nursery wall — Getty Images

Whether it’s those blobby preschool paintings or our third grader’s first real attempt at a self portrait, kids’ art projects are precious. But it’s also an absolute pain to figure out how to organize and display them consistently and cohesively. You’ve got varying paper sizes, you’ve got multiple mediums, you’ve got sequins, glitter, pompoms, pipe cleaners… the list is as endless as their creativity.

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To contend with this myriad of variables (plus, limited storage space and mental bandwidth), we need smart, tasteful display solutions that can handle our kids’ art projects with aplomb. On top of that — let’s be honest — we’d like what we hang on our walls to not totally clash with what’s already going on there.

Combining fashion and function is the name of the kids-art-display game, and we’ve found some real MVPs (Most Viable Project Solutions):

Four front opening wooden Kids Artwork storage frames displayed on a wall in a child’s room above a wooden dresser with four stuffed animals and wooden peg wall hooks — Amazon

1. Open and Shut Case

A classic child’s art frame is a foundational solution to the kids’ art display dilemma. With an easy-to-open magnetic front and interior elastic bands, it’s simple to switch out artwork as it comes in (and quietly rotate out older pieces). The on-trend, light-oak colour sets this set apart — as does the price.

Front Opening Kids Artwork Frames, Amazon, $35/2 pack.

Magnetic Art Gallery by Pottery Barn Kids uses powerful magnets secure kids artwork between the two blue wooden slats on a white wall above a desk with a stack of books, a stuffed elephant and blue table lamp featured in a HGTV.ca post titled Display Your Kids' Art Project Tastefully With These Ideas — Pottery Barn Kids

2. Snap to It

With this, you can securely snap kids’ wall art anywhere, without a single snippet of sticky tape or accidental paper tear. Magnetized wooden panels firmly hold artwork in place, making it easy to pull off and refresh the kids’ art display any time the mood strikes you (or them).

Magnetic Art Gallery, Pottery Barn Kids, $119.

Once Upon Publishing Art Book made with scanned images of kids art sitting on a table covered in colour artwork featured in a HGTV.ca post titled Display Your Kids' Art Project Tastefully With These Ideas — Once Upon Publishing

3. Book Worm

The wall might not be the best place to appreciate the creativity careening out of your kid — maybe the coffee table is more your speed. Snap pics of your favourite pieces and upload them to Once Upon, a woman-founded Swedish company with a very cool message for moms, and you’ll get a professional-quality, coffee-table book sent right to you.

Kids’ Art Book, Once Upon Publishing, starting at $25.

Posterjack Peel and Stick Posters of kids art on a white wall in a kids room with a car rug on the floor and red vintage car ride on toy as featured in a HGTV.ca post titled Display Your Kids' Art Project Tastefully With These Ideas — Posterjack

4. Stick It to Me

Rather than hanging up every piece of paint-slicked paper that comes through the front door, opt for giant stickers. Posterjack makes customized peel and stick wall decals that can be applied to nearly any surface, over and over again.

Each month, go through the piles of artwork that float through the front door with your kids, and get them to select a couple of choice works for the walls.

Peel and Stick Prints, Posterjack, $7-$54.

A wall of Ikea SKÅDIS pegboards covered in crafting and art supplies in a child’s play room or classroom designed by Ikea and featured in a HGTV.ca post titled Display Your Kids' Art Project Tastefully With These Ideas — IKEA

5. Holey Moley

For those of us who are perpetually on the hunt for the ultimate organizational system, the appeal of a massive peg-board wall is real. Part art-supply storage, part kids-art display wall, these multifunctional SKÅDIS Pegboards from IKEA Canada provide endless possibilities. The beauty of a wall instalment like this one is that as your kids grow and their needs change, you simply rearrange the space to suit them.

SKÅDIS Pegboards, IKEA Canada, $15-$30.

Large Self-Adhesive Cork Board Roll from Amazon on the wall above a light green sofa with throw pillow and a blanket as featured in a HGTV.ca post titled Display Your Kids' Art Project Tastefully With These Ideas — Amazon

6. Totally Corked

Store-bought cork boards are so ho-hum; drum up some drama with a DIY cork board wall and give your kids’ art a cool place to hang. This 100-per-cent premium cork roll, with self-adhesive backing, can be cut, shaped and stuck to pretty much any smooth surface.

Cork’s warm colours and natural patina pair well with both minimalist and cottage-core aesthetics. Bonus: It has sound-adsorbing properties! Because kids can be loud… with or without a paintbrush in hand.

Large Self-Adhesive Cork Board Roll, Amazon, $66.

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