January 23, 2009
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This is actually for extra credit in my Educational Psycology class
100 things to do with a paper clip. besides clip paper:
1. Hold your pants up
2. Use it in the place of a button
3. Back scratcher
4. Magnetize it and use for a magnet
5. Connect them and make a necklace
6. Connect them and make a bracelet
7. Earrings
8. Hold pantyhose up
9. Pick a lock
10. Make a rubbing
11. Key chain holder
12. Clip them to your fingernails and tap the counter with them
13. Clip them to your teeth for fangs
14. Toothpick
15. Connect them for a chain
16. Play limbo with the chain
17. Use the chain for Christmas tree decorations
18. Use to hang ornaments on the tree
19. Use the chain for a measuring guide
20. Use for pins in “Pin the Tail on the Donkey”
21. Self-defence weapon–poke out an attacker’s eye
22. Clean your nails
23, Clean the cracks between the tile
24. Soap carving
25. Etching your name into the gross bathroom wall
26. Bookmark
27. Balloon popper
28. Reshape into an art sculpture
29. Straighten and play “Pick up Sticks”
30. Straighten and use as mini-drum sticks to beat to the music
31. Shape into a heart and give it to your valentine
32. Reshape into a napkin ring
33. Make it into a ring
34. Reshape into stick people and make a village
35. Reshape into stick people and make an army. stage a battle with the village.
36. Use as pins for sewing
37. Use as pins to stick into voodoo dolls
38. Stick into marshmallows and make 3D sculptures
39. Stop clothes from sliding off hangers
40. Make a chain and use as a jumprope
41. Make a chain and use as a clothes line
42. Straighten out and use for shish-ka-bob sticks
43. Reshape and then stick one in in an eraser for a pencil topper
44. Marshmallow roasting stick (for over a very little fire or candle)
45. Stick it into a cake to see if it is fully cooked
*i need 100. by Tuesday. for class. extra credit. anyone want to add 55 more???
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46. paint them and glue to picture frames as decoration…
47. put them in a drawer and hide stuff under them
48. use as “weight” on a paper airplane
49. “cargo” in a toy motorized train
50. glue to wood and bend a bit to make into a key holder by your front door.
Hope these help!
very imaginative,very good indeed
kindly suggest ways to stop anger.
Clip to nose and pretend to be a bull.
As a money clip
As a fish hook
To clean your nose (carefully).
To clean your ears (very carefully).
Melt down and use as dental filling (Panamanians do with with pop can tabs).
Hook many together and make play “chain mail”
I use them at work for a few things.
As a replacement for a $25 change key on an ATM safe door lock. (requires pushing two very small buttons at once and the holes are exactly the size of a paperclip)
Pushing those little reset buttons on electronics.
I also use them to test electric motors and solenoids by connecting the hot to a ground on the motor.
(hopefully the first and third answers aren’t too technical or specialized for your paper)
@smiling_spunk - thank you thank you thank you! i have reached 105…thanks to you and others…i stuck the updated list in a new weblog…thou art lovely.
@jayanthcm - good idea! unfortunately, the past few days at work i have…gasp…been too busy for receipts. or very uninspired. but perhaps future inspiration will lead to a stop anger list.
@sonnetjoy - GREAT ideas! i now have 105, and a lovely extra credit paper to turn in on Tuesday! thank you for taking the time to give me your ideas. they are one of a kind. and my brain was fried.
@Tom@revelife - they CAN’T be too technical for my paper–because there isn’t any wrong answers:) that would be the psycology part of it…thanks for your ideas. i had fun visualizing you testing motors. my vision included sparks flying…perhaps because i really have no idea what you are talking about…grin. so i included your ideas in my paper…105ways!