Portraits aren’t just for framing. The variety of sizes available in your portrait package lend themselves to great craft projects like these:

Key Chain:  Laminate your wallet-sized portrait with heavy plastic and use a hole punch to string it onto a key chain.

Sun Catchers: Use coloured glass, suction mounts and other simple materials to create a pretty floating window display for your child’s portrait

Growth Chart: Use fabric scraps and/or poster board, pre-cut mats and other materials to frame school portraits and hang vertically in a chart that shows your child’s growth and developing maturity.

Best Friends Necklace: Laminate wallet portraits of close friends; punch a hole near the top and string onto ribbon or cord.

Creative Frames:  Buy plain, inexpensive ready-made frames and decorate with dried flowers, ribbon, buttons, medals and other sentimental objects.

Holiday Ornaments: Buy ready-made ornament frames or create your own.

Scrapbooks: See Scrapbooking for a list of great ideas to get started in this popular craft.