fab find: artkive

Admit it. Your 3 year old comes home from preschool or a recent story time with a giant painting. You oohh. You ahhhh. And then you start shoving 25 other paintings crowding your fridge in order to find room for the latest masterpiece.  Masterpiece shuffling is a parenting art, and just as you’re ready to stick tape/magnet, four other pieces of art come crashing down.

Well, there’s an app for that.

Let me introduce you to ArtKive, a handy little app that lets you take photos of your child’s artwork and archive it digitally. Simply snap, tag and securely store in their cloud-based archive. You can create a share circle online {yes, that means you can take a picture of the art and Grandma can immediately see it!} or create a coffee table book, calendar or mug.

It really is a fun way to archive your child’s art without the boxes of clutter! Artkive will attach a “plaque” at the bottom of each image that shows which child created the artwork, what grade they are/were in, the date created, and a title…just like you’d see next to art in a gallery.

The app and service are FREE. Printing fees are similar to those for other like-services.

Pretty (cool), huh?

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heather

Heather is editor-in-chief of (cool) progeny. When not scouting the best in everything kid and family, you'll probably find her running The Weisse Group or adventuring around town with her daughter (the Bug) and husband. Can be won over with a good glass of wine or something homemade. Addicted to Pinterest. Only pretends to know what she's doing with her SLR, even though she's got a fantastic lens on it. Thankful it does most of the work for her.