What do you do with children's certificates?

gingin_2

Now I have 2 children of school age, we are beginning to collect lots of certificates from various activities/school achievements, I displayed the first 4 but now every time my children bring a new one home, they expect that one to go up too.

What does anyone else do with theirs, are there any clever (and cheap) way of displaying/ storing them?

BTW my kids not super high achievers, it's more that the school like to "praise" all effort. Remember meet the Fockers - 10th out of 10 in the runing race (or thereabouts) - it's kind of like that!

Becles

I keep them in a box file along with bits of artwork I liked and cards they made and stuff.

You could display the current ones, and when a new one comes home, the oldest one gets relegated to a file.

tiamai_d

The important ones I keep. Firstly on their shelf with the rest of the little bits they make, then in a folder. The not so important ones (I took part in Science Week (that the whole school also took part in)) go in the bin. I'm harsh

Curious_George_2

we use photo albums or scrapbooks,
you could stick them in one of those accordian folders...

skintbutsolvent

You can buy display books with plastic leaves that you could slide them into, that way they are protected and easy to show to grandparents or for a confidence boost when the child has had a bad day or something.

webitha

we stick the certificates and really good pieces of art on the fridge for 1 week then they get carefully put away with the rest of the good stuff, (dont tell them that i bin the crap stuff lol)

shimmershelly

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

You can buy display books with plastic leaves that you could slide them into, that way they are protected and easy to show to grandparents or for a confidence boost when the child has had a bad day or something.

That's what I do, you can pick them up really cheaply from the supermarket.
I have ones for school reports etc and seperate ones for exam certificates for dancing and guitar etc (I've got loads of the things, my kids are pretty big now!)

mrcow

Mine have each got a "proud" box where they stick all their stuff like that in. They keep them in their rooms and everythign goes into it (including any projects they've done etc). They are just those file boxes that you can get from any stationary store. They were a present from Paperchase iirc.

Katie-Kat-Kins

Just display one at a time, after that they go in a plastic wallet/box file/box/whatever. Each time they get a new one the old one comes down.

Do make sure that any "useful" ones get stored carefully where they can be accessed if necessary, for example exam certificates for music or sports when you may need to have them as evidence in future.

sooz

fridge or bedroom wall for one week
then scanned & recycled.
similar to their artwork, which gets admired, possibly stuck up somewhere then scanned & recycled or reused as home made wrapping paper!

Reggie_Rebel

Curious_George wrote: »

we use photo albums or scrapbooks,
you could stick them in one of those accordian folders...

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

You can buy display books with plastic leaves that you could slide them into, that way they are protected and easy to show to grandparents or for a confidence boost when the child has had a bad day or something.

Either/both of these two