• Office supplies (like binder clips) are perfect for craft projects.pile of paper sheets with paper-clips image by stassad from Fotolia.com
  
  If you're bored in the office, consider using the plentiful office supplies at your disposal to make some interesting crafts. Even the most basic supplies, like sticky notes and duct tape, can form the base for a fun craft project. Better yet, bring the supplies home and make these crafts with your kids.
  
  

Sticky Pad Lamp

• If you have a boring lamp sitting in your cubical, consider redecorating it with some brightly colored sticky notes. Starting from the bottom edge of the lamp, lay a row of sticky notes, side by side, cutting them to fit if necessary. Then lay the next row slightly higher, but overlapping the first, similar to the way a roofer would install shingles. Continue until you reach the top of the lamp. Although you can use sticky notes that are all one color, consider using several colors in a repeating pattern.
  
  

Thumbtack-Eraser Creatures

• If you have some time on your hands and want to exercise some original thought, use thumbacks and other sharp office supplies, along with erasers in different shapes, to create small animals, aliens or other creatures. You can use pushpins or T-pins as animal legs or alien arms, a large eraser as the body, a smaller eraser as the head, some map pins as eyes or other features and staples as scales or wrinkles. Just stick the sharp points into the erasers so that the pieces of the creature stick together.
  
  

Duct Tape Wallet

• Duct tape is thick and can be used as material to make a wallet. Lay several strips of duct tape, sticky side up, on your desk, and then place overlapping pieces of duct tape, sticky side down, on top of them. In other words, each strip of duct tape should overlap two other strips of duct tape. Fold over the top and bottom edges to make a solid sheet of duct tape "material." Fold it in half and tape the sides to make the body of the wallet. You can glue a snap to the top so that it closes easily, or just use a binder clip to keep the wallet secure.
  
  

Two Ways to Cartoon

• Cartoons are made of nothing more than a bunch of pictures that quickly appear and then disappear, each one slightly different from the next. You can make your own cartoon using either a rotary card file or a stack of sticky notes. Draw a series of pictures, each one only slightly different from the previous one, on individual file cards or sticky notes. For example, if you were drawing a boy throwing a ball, the first frame would show the boy pulling his arm back. The second one would have the boy with his arm slightly further forward and the ball just barely leaving his hand. When you are finished, spin the wheel of the card file or use your thumb to race through the sticky notes to view the cartoon.