Little Curators (Children and Youth)

Grownups know that being organized is important. It’s why they ask you to clean up your room and make your bed. But, being organized is not just about being clean. When we organize our things, we make decisions to put them in certain places and for certain reasons. We may arrange things by color, size, least to most favorite, or oldest to newest. These choices say things about our personalities, what we like, and what we find important.    

One way we indicate that we find something important is to hang it up. Besides our rooms, the refrigerator is a common space on which we hang important things, such as photographs, artwork, and report cards. However, far too often, all that stuff ends up on the upper-half of refrigerators because adults tend to be the household “curator” – the person who selects and hangs things. So, I want you to become a curator. Hang your artwork, move around magnets, and put up photographs. Then, get a grownup to photograph the refrigerator and send it in. Congrats! You're now a curator.