I’m trying to recall my very first “maker” experiments as a kid that went beyond paper and glue and remembered that I used to make a lot of random crap with... broomstick stalks! They made great dowels and pins.
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Two kinds were common in India in the 80s, a grass stalk kind for dry dusting (phool jhadu or flower broom) with chopstick-sized smooth straight stems and a coconut stalk kind for wet scrubby cleaning (nariyal jhadu or coconut broom) with sharp thin skewer like stalks.
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I made bow and arrow sets with the coconut broom! My parents kept yelling that my sister and I would shoot our eyes out.
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