Quick, go dig through your holiday weekend trash and sift out all the wine corks, 'cause here's a way to keep your kids endlessly busy and justify your pinot noir habit at the same time: cutting the corks into ink stamps.

Craft Chi is one of my favorite craft blogs, with ideas that often translate down into things the kids can do, and this is a perfect example. With nothing but an exacto knife and a little patience, you can turn your natural or synthetic corks into wee little stampy things, then set your kids loose with a few ink pads and a whole lot of paper.

Amy at Craft Chi made several different shapes, any of which would tickle my girls. I'm thinking of trying my hand at the alphabet, and I bet I could make a rockin' little kitty head. Oooh, or a tiny engine and little individual train cars! I guess this means the end of my support of the screw top wine bottle.

(photo credit: Craft Chi)