How to Create a Keepsake Box for Kids

Over the Summer, I was on a major organizing kick trying to get lots of little projects complete. I had seen this idea to organize kids paperwork and school things and I knew I wanted to re-create it with a keepsake box.  I also shared it on my Instastories awhile back and a bunch of you asked me about them.  I originally found it here.  I went on the hunt for all of the supplies and finally got it done.   I had one big stack of things just stuffed away of the kids things that I started bringing home from their Mom’s Day Out classes and I wanted to sort through it and find a place for everything.

I bought these plastic bins from Office Depot for each kid.  I love that they came in cute colors.  I used my labeler to create labels for each file.  I chose the Smead “Color” hanging folders  to match each each box too.

I organized them into the following categories and then left a few blank to add when the kids get a little older…

 

:: Potential Categories ::

– Report Cards

– Artwork

– School Pictures

– Toddler

– Preschool

– 1st – 12th Grades (1 file for each)

– Academic Awards

– Athletic Awards

– Dance

– Cheer

 – Sports

– Theater

– Misc Awards

– Gymnastics

– Birthday Cards

I love the idea of adding their names to each of the boxes too one day.  You can use a Cricut or a Silhouette machine if you are handy with those, but I’m not.  I’m hoping one day I will be.

 

I store our boxes in the garage because that is the only place we really have room right now.  So I saw another really good idea where you can just have these nice small boxes in the house to store the items that we save throughout the year and then I can go file them away in their keepsake boxes at the end of the year!!!

 

What do you think?? Would you make a keepsake box for your kids? 

How to create a keepsake box or memory box for kids

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4 Comments

  1. Tanya wrote:

    This is such a great idea – so organized! I had boxes for the kids when they were younger. Now that they’re older, I have a book I got with envelopes in it for each year. They fill out information on the page for that year with their favorites, etc. Thanks for the link up!

    Posted 10.26.17
  2. This is such a cute idea! My mom had something similar for a lot of the things she (or we) wanted to keep throughout our school days – awards, really good grades on certain papers/projects, etc.

    -Lauren

    Posted 10.26.17
  3. amy wrote:

    Such a fabulous idea!

    Posted 10.26.17
  4. Lindsay wrote:

    This is GENIUS! I need to do this!

    Posted 10.27.17

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