Strange crafts that came to mind were my mother's in the 1960's. She went through a craft phase that included gluing macaroni/pasta shapes onto cigar boxes and spray painting them metallic colors - like copper and silver. yeeech. The worst that she and her friends did were coat hangers and plastic dry-cleaning bag bits folded and threaded onto the coat hangers and assembled into.... POODLES. Life sized miniature poodles made of dry-cleaner bag plastic bits.