Celeste sent us an email: "While I'm excited that my daughter, Katerine, has started preschool, I now have artwork coming out of my ears. She comes home with at least three pieces a day and the current alphabet-style magnets are kind of ugly, clunky and not very strong.
Do you have any nice, strong and preferably small magnets you can recommend for our refrigerator?"
Good question, Celeste. As a parent of a three-year-old in preschool, we completely appreciate your situation.
We're fans of the small, yet incredible strong Mighty Magnet. It's $12.99, for a pack of 16. These chrome magnets are discreet, one can hold a large amount of paper and they are sleek and smooth.
We also like Three by Three's Color Dot Magnet. These vinyl cuties give any refrigerator a playful look, without being too busy. A set of 15 is only $9.00.
Do you have some cool refrigerator magnets you can recommend to Celeste?
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Celeste,
I know right now it seems like the bad-mommy thing to do, but you have to purge these things before you're swallowed in paper! My girlfriend has her son pick one for the fridge and puts the others in a folder with yesterday's fridge piece. Every week or so she goes through the folder and weeds out the "unrepresentative" ones. Only the best get kept.
At my house I toss 90% immediately and the ones that are kept are either put in a folder for later pasting into a scrapbook or displayed around the house. At the end of the year I end up tossing even more from the "keep" folder because there are just too many to put in the scrapbook.
My favorite idea, which I think I saw in Cookie magazine, is to take a digital pic of each masterpiece before tossing and then have all the pics printed very small in grid format on one giant poster at the end of the year. Hang it in the kitchen until you make a new one the following year. I would totally do that if I had the wall space!
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The Mighty Magnets are very cool - but also VERY child-unfriendly. Small and very easy to swallow and very dangerous inside your child's intestines - multiple magnets can clump together and cause life-threatening blockages. Magnets of this strength and size are the reason many toys have been recalled recently. This is a case where design can't trump safety. I'm sticking with my uncool plastic alphabet magnets.
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We are going through the same thing!! Plus, I don't love the look of all of them on (and falling off of) my fridge. So, I stole and idea from a friend: We hung a simple cafe curtan rod with curtain clips in my son's room. I hang his art work there and change it out when he brings new stuff home. I like the idea of putting the "keepers" in a folder.
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These frames seem pretty cool:
http://dynamicframes.com/artframes.htm
You can store a bunch of art and show one special piece. Then sort through when the frame gets full.
You can also take pictures during the year of the art and put it in a photobook (like shutterfly's softbound or hardbound book), and even share it with grandparents.
kelli
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My favorite magnets (and kid friendly, do not scratch the refrigerator) are from MyMimi http://www.mymimi.com/magnets.html
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Strong magnets=big safety problem if swallowed :-(
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