5 parts water to 1 parts flour makes a fine paper glue

I was going to suggest something similar - I use it probably a little runnier than that for the kids to use when they’re paper maicheing.

flour *can* be composted, but it might attract rodents if you don’t mix it in well. Or you don’t have cats.

there are loads of cool kids crafts things you could do with it,playdough for example.

there are loads of receipes about on the internet, one is here http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/playdough.htm

you can make “clay” using a similar recipe, http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/claytyperecipes/l/blovclay1.htm

Kill off the crawly things by sticking the flour in the freezer for two weeks. Then sieve them out (or not) and make salt dough. Make a big pile of pretend loaves of bread, give em an egg and slat wash and bake them, then you can pile these up in a breadbasket and tell everyone how wonderful you are at making bread (lol)

that was an egg and salt wash by the way, I can’t spell, clearly :(

Maybe you can use it to put out fires much in the same way you would use dirt to put out campfires.

Unfortunately that’s a terrible idea. Whereas dirt is usually moist and smothers a fire, flour is dry and combustible and will probably just explode into flame as your pour it on. Modern flour mills have hardcore ventilation, strict spark-control policies and are never sealed, as airborne flour particulate is prone to explode violently. Indeed, explosion was a big problem with olde-world flour mills.

Kaboom!

If you put a couple of dry bay leaves in your flour (and other dry goods), it seems to keep weevils at bay. Somebody told me this and since I tried it, I haven’t had any more weevils. I put bay leaves in flour, bran, oat bran, polenta, etc - anything dry and grainy that might attract such beasties.