Fri 6 Jun 2008
We’ve had an email from Ewan, asking:
hello, any ideas on what i could make with a broken basketball?
it looks exactly like this (–>)
and is completely intact apart from the bit where the pump goes in..
We had an old deflated football in our garden for a while (no idea where it came from) and one of the cats, Carbon, decided it was his own private rainwater collector/bowl — but that was an unintended, temporarily reuse.
So has anyone got any better ideas for Ewan?
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Delusion
June 6th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Could it be cut in half so you have 2 bowl shapes…stab a few holes, attach some chain and you’d have 2 x hanging baskets!
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Alice
June 6th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
To a dog, this isn’t even broken!
Deflated ones are much easier to get your teeth into…
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Bob
June 6th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Cut it in half and then you have two stylish basketball hats.
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Jen
June 6th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Cut it into pieces and make some sweet bracelets!
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Matt
June 7th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Is his name Ewan or Evan? You wrote both.
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louisa
June 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Ewan, sorry, my bad :)
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Jennifer
June 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
When I was growing up, we had half a basketball nailed to a protruding overhead corner beam in a basement storage room to protect our heads from bumps.
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Karina
June 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Ditto on Alice’s comment. My late German Shepherd would go nuts for a broken basketball (or a soccerball)! I would take it to a dog shelter if you don’t own a dog.
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emmakj97
June 8th, 2008 at 3:55 am
if youre crafty you can turn it into texure for a collage or an idea for a scrpbook page.
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Xarla
June 8th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Cut it up and use as coasters.
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Mirthful
June 9th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Would make a cool bowl for fruit or snacks “as is”, just squash it double and clean it thoroughly and hey presto :)
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Lucia
June 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
You can use it as a basket to collect fruits from trees or as a real bag for the shopping or to carry things here and there in a sporty way: just cut an opening not too big where the hole is now. Better if you can make it with a simmetry. The make one or two couple of holes for one or two handles.
Doesn’t look cool?
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EcoChickie
June 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
My first and only idea was to fold it into itself and make a dish planter out of it.’They’ say you you need drainage holds but my happy collection of succulents will say otherwise.plant basil or something in it.the ball may fall apart after a few years,but isn’t that the point?to use something as long as it is useful? =)
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c5
July 1st, 2008 at 4:09 am
You can make it a mold to make half-bowls of paper mache. When the paper is fully dry, you can remove the ball towards the center. It can be done using a balloon and you’d pop the balloon when it’s done. With the ball, you can use it over and over and have just the same size for each bowl.
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