With the school year winding down—OK, practically over—we are once again swimming in school photos. Right now I’ve got them all piled up in a basket, and I’d like to put them to good use. I mean, I’ve paid for them but, really, do you ever need 10 or 12 repeat pictures of your kids from their yearbook? Multiply that by six and eight years in school, and you’ve got a lot of photos. Also, my daughters’ schools just started up with “spring” pictures, so now I’ve got two sets of pictures of my girls, and I don’t want them to go to waste.

I’m not a big fan of those big frames with lots of matting holes in them so you can load them up with pictures, so there’s got to be a better way to use all of these school photos I’ve collected of my kids over the years. I’ve heard of cutting the mini photos into strips and using them as bookmarks. Given that I’m raising bookworms, that’s one thing I can do with some of the photos.

But what else can I do with school photos? What do you do with those leftover school photos of your kids? Maybe together we can come up with a green and frugal use for them.

Please post a comment with your ideas.