bkay..I've sorted brights by color ROYGBV each with a zip lock bag. By sorting them in this order you always know where the Yellow fabrics are (between Orange and Green), and you can grab whatever color you want.
Strips all the same size could be boring, but not always. Think of all the patterns that use jelly rolls ( 2 1/2") and they aren't boring!
It's a never ending process to get those scraps under control. One thing I did was cut my smaller than FQ pieces into strips starting from 5" down to 1" (I'm a mini quilter). This adds a new dimension to sorting believe me! Here are couple of my quilts made from 1 1/2" strings. The first one is made with 10-10 1/2"strips in one block. There is no reason why you couldn't use 2 1/2" strips but use 5 strips or cut 6 strips that are 12 1/2" long. My DGD loves this one and claims it's an "I spy" quilt and since you have lots of those fabrics it would be perfect for them. [ATTACH=CONFIG]607516[/ATTACH]
The second quilt is featured here.
My first panto quilt..not as easy as it seems!
This was a very easy quilt to make...I sorted my 1 1/2" strips into brights with a white tone to them, then sewed 1 1/2" strips in a long strip to equal +72"...made 8 of them. Next folded a 2 yard length of white fabric in half selvage to selvage (the short way). Then made 9 cuts parallel to the selvage in varying widths starting at 2 1/2". Then sewed the pieced strips to the white to create the quilt. All fabric was from my stash, as was the backing pieces. There is no reason why you can use wider fabrics and/or fabrics of one color. Who says you need add additional fabric strips...let the pieced strips do all the work. Let your "what if I..." creativity work for you!
Good luck...