Well, with the wooden ones, I have seen them strung and made into puppet dolls.. I have seen doll beds and chairs made of them. I used to wind my embroidery thread on them.for the knitting project you take a large wooden spool and tap 4 "headless" or brad type nails into the top and use them to crochet "cords" for projects.

My children used to love the wooden ones when they were little. They would string them for "jewelry" and stack them like blocks. My son used them with his cars for roads and fences. They made some ornaments out of them. I started to save the foam ones for my grandchildren and then I decided not to because of the way the end of the spools can pull off, I think it would be a choking risk.

Margie

i giave them to a preschool teacher and she lets the kids thread them with long colorful shoe laces. hand eye co-ordination..

I save all of my spools and thread them on heavy cording and when I have quite a few tie the ends of the cording together. My grandson loved to play with them with he was younger. He still has them in his toy box and loves to take them out and play.

Can't think of the brand, but it's hand work thread. It has a coating on it (wax?) so it does not work in my machine... at all... but it's a stiffer thread for handwork. And the spools are wood.

I have some old spools from my mother and grandmother...the wooden ones, I hate to toss them, but do neeed something creative to do with them. I have made dolls with miniature wooden ones that are available at craft stores, but no ideas for the antique wooden ones. Glad this thread got started. Maybe I can get some ideas.

50 years ago, the wooden spools were added to the block box and the boys loved building with them. I can't believe that those years just flew by.

I still have some wooden thread spools and they have thread on them, I don't use the thread and will some day take the thread off and keep the spools and not use them for anything.

I have a couple 1000 wooden spools in the attic. I've made a few things from them. I'd like to sell them someday. I've got enough projects with them.

They are one of the things that I can throw away without a second thought! Snips of fabric, magazines with "someday" patterns, etc., I have trouble parting with.

I'm making a concerted effort to get rid of "things" that clutter my life and drain my energy and creativity, so anything I can toss without thinking of possible uses is wonderful.