There goes another forest!

My kids come home with a lot of paper from school and church. School is the worst offender, but church is coming in a very close 2nd place. I decided to collect all of the paper my 3 kids came home with over the course of this month. I have a large wicker basket in my kitchen that I've been putting all of the paper in. And here we are on day 13, and I am overwhelmed with paper at this point. I'm finding it difficult to let it sit there any longer without going through the massive quantities of paperwork that is starting to fall over the sides of the basket. In the picture below, the pile of paper on the left are things that I've already looked through, and do not feel the need to keep any longer (tests, school work, homework, artwork, reminder notes, etc.). The pile of paper on the right are things that I have either looked through and want to keep, or that I haven't had the time to really look through yet (Valentine's Day cards that the kids received from friends, school work and tests that I want to talk to the kids about, artwork that is worthy of a place on the refrigerator, etc.).

That's from 2 Sundays at church and 9 days of school. What you don't see in this picture are the 20 or so additional pieces of paper that I've already placed on the refrigerator (the school's menu, calendar, weekly newsletter, Jump Rope for Heart donation forms, and homework assignments that are still in progress, as well as the church's preschool newsletter and a reminder card that we got in the mail for a church event). It's a lot of paper. I've been taking the pieces of paper that only have something printed on the front, and I've been using the back side as scrap paper and coloring paper. But what should I do about the rest of it? I'm starting to feel guilty about it, and it's not even my fault. :-) I would love suggestions from anyone reading this. What can I do with the massive quantities of paper my kids bring home? Maybe I should take up paper mache' as a hobby. If you would like to start receiving some of this artwork or some of the old assignments/tests from Samuel and Avery, to see what they are doing in school, just let me know! Or even if paper mache' is already your hobby, just let me know. I'll mail you an entire forest!