Puzzles
"Glue a favorite calendar picture to cardboard and cut apart with an matte knife or sharp scissor to make a puzzles."
--Glenna, Pampa, Texas

Journals
"Start now for next year and jot down events and accomplishments as they happen. Cut out small sections of photos and glue over blank squares. Scan a reduce children's drawings. Save calendars year after year as keepsakes as your children grow."
--Lisa, Fort Worth, Texas

Framed Pictures
"Make frames from craft sticks or match sticks to frame your absolute favorite calendar pictures from last year."
--Erika, San Antonio, TX

Placemats
"Cover the pictures with clear contact paper. Use them for placemats. You can use a different one for each month."
--Kailey, Texas

Rubber Stamping
"Stamp an open image on it and cut it out. No need to color in the image."
--Sharyn, East Greenbush, NY

Fancy Boxes
"Decoupage them to plan boxes to make fancy gift boxes."
--Anonymous

Tray Favors
"Use decorative edged scissors and cut out interesting parts. Make into collages with construction paper the same size as the trays in your local nursing home. Cover with clear contact paper."
--Ellis, Missouri

Gift Wrap
"Use your favorite pages to make elegant gift wrap for small packages."
--Amy

Miniature Windows
"Use scenic calendars to make faux windows for cards or doll houses. Paste pretty scenes under a cardboard 'window frame'. Make miniature curtains from fabric scraps."
--Andrea, Rodeo, CA

Gift Tags
"Cut small areas with decorative scissors. Mount on nice card stock cut into an interesting shape. Punch a hole and add some decorative raffia or curling ribbon."
--Kelly, Enumclaw, WA

Party Favors
"Roll into paper cones, punch a hole on each side, tie in ribbon handle. Stuff in some tissue and fill with candy, small toys etc for a party favor or fill with potpourri for an adult gift."
--Carole

Lacing Cards
"Mount the picture on cardboard. Cut it into a shape and laminate. Punch holes all around. Tie on a shoe lace and let your children weave in and out of the holes."
Cut out the picture in a shape heart, circle etc. punch holes around picture have it lamainted then get a long shoe string and have a child weave the shoe string in and out of the holes."
--Nancy, Poway  CA

Teaching Aids
"Save them for your teacher! They are great for graphing, sorting, comparing."
--Una, Edinburg, Texas

Magnets
"Cut small sections, mount on card stock and add a magnet to the back."
--Peggy, Trumann, AR

Decorate School Supplies
"Trim pages to fit in a binder cover with a clear sleeve or glue them to plain folders."
--Monkey, AK

Creative Story Books
"Paste the photos (or parts of the photos) into a blank book. Have children make captions that tie the photos together into a story."
--Brenda, Jacksonville, FL

Scrapbooking
"I always save mine and use them while I am scrapbooking!"
--Wendy, Proctorville, OH

Greeting Cards
"Use the squares on the back to cut the picture into squares. Glue these like a mosaic on a blank card."
--Anonymous