 1. Learn about cool art happenings.
2. Be a better-informed citizen.
3. Make birdcage liner.
4. Craft a fabulous dress.
5. Packing material?
6. Collage.
7. Wrap your gifts.
8. Fill in cracks in the roof and walls of your domicile.
9. Pad your bra or your pants.
10. Roll it up and hit your child.
11. Make paper dolls to amuse your neighbors.
12. Toilet paper.
13. Snort a line.
14. Roll a fat J.
15. Paper airplanes.
16. Papier maché?
17. Kindling.
18. Spitballs!
19. Shoulder pads.
20. Single-use slippers.
21. Fad diet food?
22. Confetti!!
23. Wallpaper.
24. Ransom notes.
25. Make words, fill leftover space: sinew, Semite, semen, sine, nest, nit, swine, wise, mete, sent, newt, went, sewn, sweet, mint, tin, its, sew, net, teen, wine, ewe, item, stew, twin, twine, twee (?), sin, sit, men, mist, teem, ten, stem, mite, smite, swim, it, is, Tim, met, wit, wet, win, see, seen, we, wee, west, news!
—Painstakingly compiled by Anna Weltner and Ashley Schwellenbach
This article appears in Aug 11-18, 2011.