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How to Store School Papers & Memories (Free Printables)

By Erika in Back to School

back to school featured for moms free printableThis post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

When kids go back to school, it doesn’t take long before their school papers, artwork, newsletters and more come pouring in. While you can read and toss a lot of things, there’s many more you’ll want to save and cherish as memories for a long time to come.

You could get one of those adorable school memory books, but those quickly become impractical as they don’t hold much. You could set up an elaborate file system for each child. Or you could toss everything into a box in the attic.

But there’s a better way to store those school papers and memories.

Today, I’ll show you how to store school papers and memories the organized and simple way.

You won’t have to buy fancy organizing file folders or bins, because chances are you already have what you need!

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What You’ll Need

  • 1 medium sized bin for each child – I use the inexpensive 6 quart Sterilite bins found at Walmart, Target, or Amazon.
  • scissors
  • marker
  • our Free Printable School Papers Labels & Dividers (below)
  • laminator (optional)
  • laminating pouches (optional)
  • hot glue gun and glue stick

One note: you might need more than one bin for each child as they progress through their grades; this depends on how many papers and memories you save each year. My oldest just finished 7th grade and he still has plenty of space in his school papers storage bin.

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How to Store School Papers & Memories:

My amazing designer, Christine, created a beautiful set of printables for this organizing project. It includes two different size labels to use on the outside of your containers, a page for each grade, and a divider tabs page.

I love this school papers storage set because it begins with a tiny apple sapling for preschool and kindergarten and progresses to a big apple tree with a corresponding number of apples for each grade. Isn’t it fitting as our kids move through school?

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Free printable School Papers & Memories Storage Set:

  • big labels (for outside of bin)
  • medium labels (for outside of bin)
  • divider labels
  • preschool
  • kindergarten
  • first grade
  • second grade
  • third grade
  • fourth grade
  • fifth grade
  • sixth grade
  • seventh grade
  • eighth grade
  • ninth grade
  • tenth grade
  • eleventh grade
  • twelfth grade

Download and print what you’ll need for this project. You can print everything now or just the grades your children have finished/are entering. That’s what I chose to do because with four kids, it would be a lot of printing and laminating to do everything at once!

I highly recommend using a laminator for this simple organizing project – it will help these pages and labels last longer over the years. If you haven’t already gotten a laminator, they’re not expensive and so much practical and fun to use! Anyways…

Choose which size label you’ll need for the outside of the container. Write your child’s name on it, then laminate the sheet for durability.

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Cut out the labels and attach it to the outside of the container with tape. I used a little packing tape on the back of the label.

Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables!

Next laminate the divider page – if you laminate just one page, do THIS page.

Cut out the divider tabs you’ll be using. If you don’t want to do all 14 grades (preschool, kindergarten, 1-12), you can store this divider page in the bottom of the container.

Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables!

Laminate the grade pages you’ll need.

With a small hot glue gun, attach the divider tabs to the corresponding grade pages.

Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables!

Now add your children’s papers to the bin, beginning with the earliest grade – preschool or kindergarten.

Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables!

Place the corresponding grade page on top and add more papers, continuing on until you reach your child’s current grade.

Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables!

That’s how to store school papers and memories the easy way!

Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables!

With our kids off to a fresh school year, this is a great time to get their school papers organized so you don’t get overrun this year!
Need a better way to store your kids' school memories? Here's the inexpensive, simple way to organize & store school papers & memories with FREE printables! Check out this post where I share how we keep daily school papers and homework organized – it really works!

By downloading this free product, you agree to the terms and conditions listed here. This free product is for single classroom/home use only, by one teacher/family. If you intend to use this for more than one classroom/home, please return to Living Well Mom and download an additional copy each time.

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    Filed Under: Back to School, Home, Organizing Tips, Seasonal Tagged With: back to school, featured for moms, free printablePublished on August 22, 2016

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    About Erika

    Erika Bragdon is a second-generation homeschooling mom with 3 kids at home and 1 in college. She lives in the beautiful hills of New Hampshire on a small farm and loves writing, baking, nature, and sharing flower essences and more natural solutions with moms.

    Comments

    1. Scott says

      August 22, 2016 at 5:22 pm

      We also have made nice labels for our totes. But…never thought about laminating them! Such a ‘duh’ idea!

      Reply
    2. Vera Sweeney says

      August 22, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      What a great idea!! I am always wanting to keep every piece of paper possible of the kids school work!

      Reply
    3. Sarah says

      August 23, 2016 at 6:48 pm

      This looks SO much easier then what i’m trying this year! lol this will be better for the next years lol

      Reply
    4. diane says

      August 24, 2016 at 9:26 am

      Each of my kids has what we call ‘the special box’. It is a large plastic container with lid and it has everything from art projects to report cards to flyers from plays they were in. They will have plenty of memories to look through when they get older!

      Reply
    5. Ellen LaFleche-Christian says

      August 24, 2016 at 11:50 am

      What a great way to save memories. They grow up so fast!

      Reply
    6. Michael Hannah says

      August 31, 2016 at 12:05 pm

      A great idea. It would be very interesting if the latter themselves open and remember the wonderful memories. Thank you for sharing.

      Reply
    7. Dana Barker says

      October 22, 2018 at 6:19 pm

      The laminator link is not working. Can you reply with a working link? Thanks!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        October 23, 2018 at 2:49 pm

        Here you go. Thanks for letting me know, Dana. https://amzn.to/2q7xPCV

        Reply
    8. Vanja says

      January 11, 2020 at 1:56 am

      Hi Erika,
      I just came across your page and the free printables for the school papers and memories. Thank you very much for doing those, they are perfect!!!
      I would like to know if your designer Christine (or you) by any chance would have those for the 4 years of college???
      Thank you very much!!!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        January 14, 2020 at 11:26 am

        Hi Vanja, we don’t have any for college now, but I will keep that in mind for when I update this post soon. Thanks for the tip. And thank you for the kind words – I’m glad you like these!

        Reply
    9. Sarah Cummings says

      April 14, 2020 at 10:29 pm

      Hi Erika! I just discovered your blog. This post is wonderful. I tried to download the fifth and tenth grade printables, but got an error- PDF failed to load. Are the links still good?

      Thank you!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        April 16, 2020 at 10:53 am

        Hi Sarah, I fixed it. You are right both the 5th and 10th grade PDFs were corrupted. No idea why or how – gotta love technology! Thanks for letting me know. 🙂

        Reply

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