1. Reframing Bread: The Life Of a Baguette –What Can You Do With a Single Baguette?
Janis Rader, Exotic Fish Team, Crash Course On Creativity, Venture Lab
You can use it as a weapon – for self-defense. Send it through the air like a missile or clonk an intruder
over the head with it.
You can use it as a peace offering – particularly to a person of French descent – with whom you have
had a spat.
You can use it in the kitchen to clean up spills if you don’t have any paper towels, or napkins – simply
slice the baguette or tear it into pieces, and sop up spilt milk, oil, juice, anything liquid.
You can deodorize odors in your carpet – slice up the baguette and soak it in vinegar, and place over the
section of carpet with a peculiar odor (think pets here, or just use your imagination!)
You can barter with it – a baguette for your life, a baguette for your money, you get the picture!
You can make a baguette sculpture – slice it up, pile the pieces in a pop art sculpture, which can be
tasted and eaten by the judges, the baguette sculpture having more value if it looks and tastes fresh.
Alternatively, the baguette sculpture can be made interactive, the slices of baguette can be reassembled
and rearranged in multiple positions, and if not eaten, can last for at least three days, prolonging the
hands-on and visual experience.
You can use the baguette as a headrest, while you do your floor exercises, if you lack a pillow. If you're
on a plane, you can prop a baguette behind your neck and take a baguette-nap.
When you're bored or frustrated doing your homework, housework, or professional work, you can
toss your baguette across the room, and immediately ease your tension. Or whack it against the wall.
Great for anger management.

2. You can bang on your baguette like a drum, and the sound will change, depending on whether you
tap on it with a pencil, a pen, a letter opener, your fingers.
Your baguette is also a practice piano. Classical pianists warming up on airplanes can simply carry a
baguette, and keep their fingers supple, by practicing their scales and arpeggios on the baguette. It's a
quiet instrument, which will not disturb your fellow passengers.
The baguette makes a nifty cushion, keeping grass stains off your jeans, if you go off on a picnic. You
could break off a piece of baguette for you and your love, and still have enough to sit on.
The baguette sails through the air with the greatest of ease. You could have a baguette competition,
and toss the baguette like a beanbag or discus. Scoring could be based on distance, form, etc. Of course
if you throw the baguette while on drugs, you would have to be disqualified.
Tug-of-war with a baguette is a great game to play with your young children. Everyone will laugh
when the baguette breaks apart. Everyone wins.
How about Musical Baguette? This is a variant of Musical Chairs. Get a large group together, and
start passing the baguette. Start the music. Stop the music. Whoever is holding the baguette is out.
The last person holding the baguette wins the game.
Weight-train with the Baguette. If doesn't weigh much, but if you do enough repetitions, you'll get a
workout.
The Baguette makes a great Theatre Prop. Think swordplay, slapstick, improv. Get interactive with
the Audience.

3. Put the Baguette on your head, and improve your carriage. See if you can keep the Baguette on your
head when you walk around the room. Hold Baguette races around the block! It's hard to slump when
you're balancing a Baguette on your head. More physical fitness if all of us became Baguette-Heads.