It sounds to me like an awful lot of paper is being shuffled. Why not look to preserving a few trees instead and maybe the fingerstalls will last longer?

Cut the narrow end off, to make them into a tube, and slide them onto plastic coat hangers to make them non slip!

Is enough of the top intact to use as a thimble?

As an Art teacher, I see them as little finger brushes. Easy to clean and durable. I have something similar and the kids (ages 3-13) LOVE them!

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What a SUPER idea. We’re (art teachers) always encouraging kids to use alternative materials and to explore the multitude of objects with which they can paint. This would be condusive to getting HS students to get more intimate with their art, since getting fingers dirty at this age is not cool, and we surely wouldn’t suggest ‘finger painting’ to this level? “Oh Miss, you HAVE to be kidding!”

It has such a fun texture and shape… Maybe you could cut the lumpy bits off and lay them flat and perhaps glue them to a surface to make it non-slip… perhaps your dashboard? Or perhaps on the bottom of something that tends to slide around a bit… like your chairs in your kitchen?

On a pretty whimsical side… I think you could stretch the rubber bits around like a bead or something and wire it up to be nifty rubber nubbed balls for necklace/earring wear.

Yes, I think my cat would like this!

One of those seven Snow White’s friends can it use as a condon.

OMG, kinda industrial strength…and you know guys!