diff --git a/src/lib/components/DashCanvas.react.js b/src/lib/components/DashCanvas.react.js
index c6c85eb..2aa0fa1 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/DashCanvas.react.js
+++ b/src/lib/components/DashCanvas.react.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DashCanvas.defaultProps = {
     json_data: '', image_content: '', trigger: 0,
     width: 500, height: 500, scale: 1, lineWidth: 10,
     lineColor: 'red', tool: "pencil", zoom: 1,
-    goButtonTitle: 'Save', hide_buttons: []
+    goButtonTitle: 'Save', hide_buttons: [],json_objects: ''
 };
 
 DashCanvas.propTypes = {
@@ -112,7 +112,14 @@ DashCanvas.propTypes = {
      * Dash-assigned callback that should be called whenever any of the
      * properties change
      */
-    setProps: PropTypes.func
+    setProps: PropTypes.func,
+
+    /**
+     * Like json_data,add objects like paths or images
+     * Use utils.parse_json.parse_jsonstring to parse
+     * this string.
+     */   
+    json_objects: PropTypes.string    
 };
 
 export const propTypes = DashCanvas.propTypes;
diff --git a/src/lib/fragments/DashCanvas.react.js b/src/lib/fragments/DashCanvas.react.js
index 05cd811..6f07969 100644
--- a/src/lib/fragments/DashCanvas.react.js
+++ b/src/lib/fragments/DashCanvas.react.js
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ export default class DashCanvas extends Component {
 
 			sketch._fc.setZoom(this.props.zoom);
 		};
+
+		if ((this.props.json_objects !== prevProps.json_objects)) {
+			this._sketch.fromJSON({
+				'objects':sketch.toJSON().objects.concat(JSON.parse(this.props.json_objects)) 
+			});
+		};			
 	};