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was tidying the hall cupboard this afternoon, found a box containing about 2 litres of walnut shells, now why was the oh saving them??? cant possible have been me ,i would have remembered

Make a Walnut Ship by filling half a walnut shell with molten wax, then setting three "masts" made of tooth picks, and a front spar also of toothpick. Use the round ones. Then, use thread and glue to make cross spars on the masts. Use thread to string together rigging on the masts, and small swatches of white cloth or paper (old cotton handkerchiefs work well), to make sails. Glue these on the spars, and use thread from the bottom corners of the sheet to the sides of the gunwales. You can also add small flags to the masts. These make great Christmas tree ornaments.


Make a Jack o Lantern - Sand the fat end of a whole walnut so it will stand on end without tipping. Paint orange, and add a yellow face of eyes, nose, mouth. Add a short stick for a stem, with a couple of leaves and two pieces of thin green wire. Makes a great Halloween decoration.

Cosmetic Uses
The walnut shells are ideal as the gritty, rough agent in soap cosmetics and dental cleansers. Walnut scrub contains ground apricot seeds and crushed walnut shells to exfoliate and aloe vera to moisturize and soothe. Walnut scrub spreads easily over the skin into a dense lather.

We keep nut shells for kindling.

i was going to say the same as jenny!or was it something for blue peter

After we've eaten the contents, we put the shells out as a mulch. Lasts about 6 months or so.

Aren't they good for dying wool, dark brown I think.