is there anything you else you can do with conkers apart from play conkers?

Question

id like to use them for a craft activity or some decoration any ideas?

Answer 1

They are very good for making more conker trees!
You could try to carve a pattern into them?

Answer 2

I'm sure you have heard of dough that you can bake in the oven to make decorations. Try using conkers in that, they make nice decorations for Christmas. Don't paint them gold or silver though. They are best left their natural colour.

Answer 3

My daughter is 2 and plays with them 'like pebbles' (yes we are cruel and dont give her real toys).

Painting faces on them is fun if your kid is a bit older. When I was a kid we made a nativity scene - we used cardboard cones for the bodies of the people (Mary, Joseph etc) and we were going to use ping pong balls for their heads, but they were too big and we decided that it was more factually accurate if all of the people in the scene were brown! So the conkers were the key bit of the nativity scene.

If you like to re-use stuff, check out www.junkk.com for some good (and quite barkingly mad) ideas.

Answer 4

What ever you do - don't eat them!! Horse chesnut conkers are not the same chesnuts that are roasted. These are sweet chesnuts. As well as tasting foul - you run the risk of being extremely ill if you eat them.

Answer 5

they can be glued into their shells and then added to Christmas wreaths and fir garlands or glued onto a cane wreath base and varnished this looks great in the Autumn

Answer 6

string them up and paint them gold and silver then you will have a very tacky xmas decoration

Answer 7

string them together on some twine to make some old fashioned anal beads

Answer 8

eat them. there scrummy