Hi, I have 3 kids. *My question is two-fold:*

Firstly, my children are really creative & enjoy drawing & making lots of things out of paper & found objects (2D and 3D). We've chosen not to include TV or on-screen activities in their daily lives, so I suppose my kids are doing a bit more paper creation than the norm....*

Secondly, we've chosen to invest in predominantly wooden toys to avoid all the plastic clutter, but even that seems to have accumulated with other "stuff" & I'm feeling a bit cluttered by "things".

Anyway, being a respectful AP style mum, I'm not partial to sneakily chucking out their stuff behind their backs - I'm raising them to be respectful of me & therefore I am of them.*

With this in mind, does anyone have any tips about how to respectfully go about coping with the amount of creative projects being produced, or have any tips on culling/organising the junky stuff that has been inevitably given to us, or little trinkety-things that just clatter about in drawers that get used occasionally when they see it (think broken stopwatch, those wood dinosaur skeletons you build, foam *planes you assemble, $2-shop trinkets that come home from parties, found objects etc, etc).

Any thoughts would be appreciated.*