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How We Hang Art on the Fridge: Super Strong Magnetic Clips (GIVEAWAY!!!)

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If your child attends any sort of parents’ day out, day care, or preschool (or if you are just a crafty parent), then your house is likely swimming with pieces of art that your little Rembrandt has completed.

I shared a long while back one way that we display some of our favorite pieces. We have frames set up along a short wall in our house and we rotate out the art work. It is at Darah’s eye level, which she really enjoys. And it elevates the art to gallery status, even if only for a few weeks.

But as Darah has gotten older and started to do more coloring and drawing, and as she has started to request that more of her work be displayed, we’ve run out of framed space. And so, we turned to the fridge.

I wanted to find some magnets that Darah would be able to make use of on her own. But I know from experience that she loves to play with magnets and sometimes leaves them on the floor. With a crawler in the house, this just won’t do.

Learning Resources has the perfect option: Super Strong Magnetic Clips. These magnets are strong enough that Darah can’t take them off the fridge, yet because they have a clip, Darah is still able to use them and hang her artwork all by herself. I like that with these magnetic clips, the child has control over which art pieces get displayed and which get removed, or at least put behind other art.

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The Super Strong Magnetic Clips, in addition to being great teaching tools for children, are also true work horses. Each clip can hold up to 50 pieces of paper at one time (!) and in terms of weight, can hold up to 20 pounds. Can you believe that?!

Learning Resources offers this product for $14.99 for a set of 4. These are magnets that you will use for the rest of your life. They are durable and oh-so-useful. While you are checking them out, see what else you might find at Learning Resources. They are having a huge after-holiday sale with many items 20-50% off! 🙂

What about you? What do you use to display your child’s art work?

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I received complimentary products for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own.

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  1. Hi, can you please tell me what you’re using on the right-hand side – the chrome coloured strip??
    Thanks.

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  9. My 13 year old god daughter has started making wonderful collages -I’d love to display. I have some decorative posters that I might hand too.

  18. I would LOVE these! In a family of 7, there is always something to hang and display, from notes from teachers to art projects that come home and all the scribbles that become treasures.

  26. We have a finger painting my daughter did that is currently on the fridge… with another way to hang things we just might have to have her do another!

  29. We use magnetic clips on my steel door to the garage to hold up honor roll awards and the monthly family calendar!

  37. I almost always have at least one picture that the kids have drawn or colored on the fridge. Along with all the important school papers and bday invites!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  47. the kids artwork, but also their chore charts – for some reason the magnets I have aren’t strong enough to hold them so they keep mysteriously disappearing …hmmmmm

  48. I would proudly display my grandsons pictures and the crafts and artwork that he makes for me!

  51. I display my kids artwork, our eucharistic minister church schedule and report cards on my fridge.

  56. I would use it for the family calendar, which is too heavy for ordinary magnets! (And, yes…artwork would be proudly displayed, too, of course!) 🙂

    Thanks!
    h4schaffer at gmail dot com

  57. I’d hang up my 2 neices, ages 4 and 9 yr olds beautiful pictures they color and draw for me. I have them all over my fridge now.These big clips would be great. Thank you for the cool giveaway! 🙂

  60. My daughter has recently started painting with water colors; I’d put up one of her paintings.

  66. I’ll be hanging the school schedule. I would like to hang other stuff, but my husband doesn’t like it.

  69. Is it weird that I want these?? Good magnets can be so hard to come by! While I don’t have a little one’s art work to hang, I do have lots of pretty wedding announcements to hang!

  71. My little dude’s artwork, of course! Mostly projects from Sunday School and a few other random things he’s found around the house and thought they were worthy of hanging on the fridge too… ha!

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