The full-service company makes the process easy: It sends you a prepaid box, which you fill with artwork and ship back. Plum Print ( ) takes all of your child’s artwork - drawings, macaroni necklaces pinch pots and anything else - digitizes it and then prints it in a custom coffee table book. If you want to organize and consolidate your kid’s art:

(I have one for each child.) My approach was ruthless and low-tech, but today there are many other options - scanners, 3-D printers, computer design programs and a slew of websites can consolidate your kid’s masterpieces into a book or transform them into wallpaper, jigsaw puzzles and more. I always curated my kids’ artwork I kept only the best pieces and still proudly display some of them, with others stored in a slim document box.

Usually the two are at odds: You want to clear the clutter, but sentimentality gets in the way, leaving you with another big pile.

For parents of a school-age child, there are two things that converge at this time of year: spring-cleaning and the realization that you have accumulated almost a year’s worth of your kid’s artwork.