Here's another project that will help alleviate that huge stack of kid's drawings + other such thoughtful scribbles: impromptu notebooks! I have pledged to no longer scratch heaps of notes to myself on small pieces of paper + post-it notes. Instead, I keep a lively notebook of reminders, grocery + dinner lists and other bits I would otherwise forget.
I also have found it sad to toss out any of my son's endless amounts of artwork. A great deal of the drawings + scribbles are exciting and fun, but not so frame worthy. Recycling my son's artwork into notebooks is a useful way to use up that big stack of goodness.
Most of Eliot's marker + crayon drawings (paintings would not work so well for this project) are on large 15x20" pieces of white drawing paper. As long as the stack of papers are cut down to the same size, you can create a notebook any size you wish. With that in mind, I made between 2 and 4 notebooks per stack of 15x20" paper. Depending how thick you want the notebook, use between 10-15 sheets of scribbles.
With the paper cut down to size, fold each piece in half. Once you have a stack of the folded pieces, nest the pages together to create a book. If you choose to put a cover on the notebook, cut a sheet of paper (I used colorful cardstock on some, other I left without a cover) about 1/2" longer and wider than the inside pages.
To bind the notebook, I used regular 'ol office staples + stapled the spine of the notebook in the middle a few times. You could also use a sewing machine (depending on the thickness of your pages) to bind the notebook or use other simple bookbinding techniques, depending on how fancy you want to get.
Though the pages of the notebooks are not totally blank, I find writing over + around the scribbles to be quite charming as it reminds me of my son's unbound enthusiasm.