Rubber wine corks make excellent erasers. Just cut one down the center and you have two useful erasers.
By Janet from England
This is a page about craft uses for corks. Once the cork is out of the wine bottle, it's easy to just throw it away. However, they can be used for a myriad of things, craft projects in particular.
Wine corks are great for fishing. Tie the line around a cork or drill small hole and put line through in hole then put match wood stick or a toothpick in hole. Also great to make fly fishing lures out of corks too.
Wine corks are used in a variety of craft projects. Learn how to make a cork and faux grape filled painted box to display in your home.
To safely store an ice pick or any other utensil with a sharp tip, just stick into a wine cork. Better grab a real cork while you can get them since they are being replaced with man-made materials more and more often.
Rather than buy tip holders for my knitting needles at the craft store, I put old artificial wine corks to use! They already have a hole in them and the tips of the needles can be made to fit them easily.
Place a cork on the point of knives to keep out of harms way. Great for kitchen drawers or when packing for picnics, BBQs or cookouts and Parties.