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Make knee pads for gardening If you find gardening is a pain in the knees when you tend your little patch of green, tape foam food trays to your knees. Or attach them to your legs using the top halves of old tube socks. The trays give you extra padding while you pull out weeds and fertilize your plants.
Release your innersoles If your tired old dogs need a little padding, grab a couple of clean meat trays and cut them to fit inside the sole of your shoes or boots. You'll have happy feet and some extra cushioning for free.
Produce a disposable serving dish If you need a quick disposable serving platter while you're on a cookout or camping trip, you can make one from a foam food tray. Wash it with soap and water, cover it entirely with foil, and load it up with food. Use these serving dishes to bring goodies to the church potluck, local bake sale, or sick neighbor. No worries about losing your own platters.
Provide an art palette Create a paint palette for your budding Picasso. A thoroughly cleaned and dried food tray is the perfect place for kids to squirt their tempera or oil paints. Are they experimenting with watercolors? Use two trays: Put watercolor paint in one and water in the other. At the end of the art session, you can just throw them away.
Protect pictures in the mail Why buy expensive padded envelopes to send photographs to loved ones? Cut foam trays slightly smaller than your mailing envelope. Insert your photographs between the trays, place in the envelope, and mail. The photos will arrive without creases or bends.
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