2. Collect ten. Put them all in an old box. Use shrink wrap and a blow dryer to repackage them. Try to return them to the store claiming "They came that way!"
3. Use them as paint mixers.
4. Use them to make a koo-koo clock.
5. Wall-paper your room.
6. Build a fence with them.
7. Collect them. Record the date and time when each one broke. Get a famous clarinetist to sign the oldest when he gives a concert in your town.
8. Smash them into the wall. (Especially effective after a really lousy performance where it really was the reed's fault)
9. Break them into thousands of little pieces. Count them. (Especially effective as a stress releaser)
10. Light them on fire. Watch them burn.
11. Build a coffin out of reeds, for your reeds. Bury it. Have a ceremony. During band class.
12. Recover furniture.
13. See how many different types of bacteria you can grow on it.
14. Use in science fair project.
15. Make them into a book sock/cover
16. Stuff a brass player�s locker
17. Build a log cabin for beanie babies
18. Build a reed fort, complete with cannon to fire reeds at teachers (not the band teacher of course)
19. Draw faces on them to make a new group of friends
20. Burn them as an alternative energy source to save the fossil fuels.
21. Use in a project where you have to make one of those dioramas, like make an Indian teepee village!
22. Reed + feathers + cat nip = instant cat toy
23. Give them to drummers and/or teething children as chew toys
24. Split them in half lengthwise, wrap the end in barbed wire, then give them to an oboe or bassoon player. They�re dumb enough to fall for it.
25. Leave them randomly around the band room floor and see how many people fall.
26. Play tiddlywinks with them, use tuba bell as target.
27. Turn them into blinds for very thin windows.
28. Use them as shavings at the bottom of a hamster or bird cage.
29. Add them to trail mix, nobody will notice.
30. Make a tiny boat/life raft for rescuing lady bugs.
31. Two words: Flea Circus
32. Glue them together and sell them to old ladies that don�t know what they are.
33. Glue a bunch together and make wooden shoes, for your next band trip to Holland
34. Glue them together end to end until they are long enough to be mistaken for drumsticks. Switch them out with an actual drumstick.
35. Glue them together in a big clump and sell them to a trumpet as a mute.
36. Throw them at random brass players and watch them squirm!!