Finally, something to do with those ugly bumpy osage oranges besides chase away spiders!
My boys like to cut out parts of faces from magazines and glue them onto the hedge apples to make "hedge apple people." You can also use "googly eyes," pipe cleaners for hair, or whatever else might add to the appearance of the face.
We like to make the people look similar to family members, then we display our hedge apple families on the mantle.

You could always drill them out and make jack-o-lanterns out of them too. I'd love to have some osage orange on my place--they make super traditional/primitive bows.

My biggest complaint about osage orange, while on the topic, is the possibility of getting beaned by one while walking beneath it! This may sound paranoid, but I had a walnut fall on my head from 70 feet or so up, and man did THAT ever feel bad. I imagine a hedge apple falling on your head could crack a skull!

I LOVE my Osage Oranges - our property is chock full of them. That said, I do echo Timtim's refrain of not wanting to get beaned by one. Our trash cans are located beneath a little grove of them, & after the first frost, one really needs a hard hat in order to get the trash out unscathed - lol.

But that aside, I love the way wildlife is attracted to them. Deer, squirrels, & all types of songbirds descend on them after they've begun to rot naturally or get squashed by our cars. And the tree trunks are total magnets for woodpeckers, warblers, wrens, nuthatches - virtually all the small insect-eaters. Sometimes the trunks of our trees are alive with them.

Oh, & if you want to be "with it" as far as decorating with them, good old Martha Stewart gilds them with gold spray paint & uses them as mantel & tabletop Christmas decorations.