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If you’ve been piling up your kid’s artwork for a while now it might be too much to put every single one into the photo book. Why not take out that pile of drawings you’ve saved and let your kid choose their favorites?

No need for scanners or fancy machines, just snap a photo of the drawing with your phone. Quick tip! Take the photo in daylight (but not sunlight) and crop the edges in your camera roll editor.

After you snap the photo you just add the photo to the Once Upon app. Maybe you’ll want the drawing to take up a full page, maybe you can fit a couple of similar drawings on the same page. Play around with the shuffle button and see what works best for you!

We forget things way too quickly! So adding a caption to the drawing about when or where it was made, your kid’s age or what the drawing is portraying (we all know that’s not always easy to see) will be priceless in a few years when you’re flicking through the book.

After you’ve added the faves from the never-ending-pile-of-drawings, start adding your kid’s artwork as they make them. No more piles, no more lame excuses to why your kid found their artwork in the trash and no more feeling guilty about the unorganized boxes in the attic!