Escargot shells

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OK, I made a pretty big maternal sacrifice for my daughter: I ate 18 snails just to acquire the little wooden bowl they were packaged in, plus their enormous pretty shells.  (Escargot bourgignon, if you're curious.)

I saved 17 of the 18 shells (I dropped the first one because it was hot and greasy, and it cracked on the tiles -- GROSS! GROSS! GROSS!).  The shells are soaking in hot soapy water at the moment, to get the last of the butter out.

My question now is... "now what?"  The bowl is easy: it's a Pet Shop Jacuzzi, as far as my DD is concerned.  The shells... one of those "this looks cool, let's put it in the stash" kind of things.  I'm thinking the easiest way to work with them is to use a hot glue gun.  The shells are easily 1-1/2" across, from opening to back end -- not your garden variety snail.

Thoughts?  Inspirations?  I'm coming up with "Fairy Lounge Chairs" and "Easter Egg Hats"... but eating snails is NASTY.  Anyone got less-than-kitschy ideas for the shells, to make the creation worth the culinary experience?

Edited to add:  MY THANKS for all your suggestions!  I never even thought of Ursula's voice-capturing necklace.  I think I have just the shell for it too: it's got a hole in it in just the right place for a ring, or whatever you call that thing that lets you string rocks onto necklaces.  (A lot of the shells had suspiciously round holes in them that had been plugged up with some kind of caulking, which I only hope is food-safe.)  I'm not sure why I was surprised at the number of notification emails with all your comments, but I was. :-)  I'll post pics in a couple of weeks -- or whenever...  I seem to be getting hit with inspirations, and then quickly after feeling them fizzle out with no action taken. :-(