What are creative uses for retired arrows?

I'm creating this answer as a community wiki₁, since everyone comes to the question and posts a single idea beneath it as a comment :) Instead of doing so, we might want to add the ideas to this list:

1. Create an arrow-shaft-pen
2. If damaged at the ends they can be cut, sleeved and reused sometimes. Bow arrows can be shortened as bolts for crossbows. Depends on materials.
3. The "RobinHood thing"
4. Halloween stuff
5. demos (either if a club has an open day and the arrows have been rebuilt but they dont fly that well, or to show people how arrows are with cutouts and description tags, or when teaching how to build arrows)
6. part of target stands...
7. use them for plants, bird perches...
8. some aluminum ones can make sleeves to repair tent poles or stakes
9. minimal backpack frame
10. parts of rc models
11. couch blowgun dart shooting
12. I found that 22 shells fit nicely in my old crossbow bolts, i cut them off just long enough for 15 rounds. makes reloading my 22 real fast and easy.
13. Old arrows also make great pepper plant stakes for the garden.
14. Cut off the tip and hot-glue a large treble hook in it...makes a great ice fishing gaff
15. Couple guys at work put them on their antenna of their truck, with some tape or heat shrink at the bottom to hold it on
16. Weld or solder them into large abstract sculptures. You may even be able to sell the sculptures.
17. Make a kite - putt a nock on each end of two arrows, making a cross, tie the junction, run string around the outside of the frame to make the kite edges. Use a plastic sack or garbage bag as the face of the kite and an iron to melt the edges over the string around the end. Add string and tail. I loved these when my dad made them for me as a kid.

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