Cereal-Box Heads
Materials:
- Cereal boxes (not empty)
- plain paper or brown paper bags
- art supplies
- straws
- cotton
- sewing
- scraps
- recycled materials
- glue
Are your kids tired of looking at the same old pictures on the backs of their cereal boxes every morning? The usual clown and dinosaur faces can get a bit stale. Here's a great way for your children to pass some kitchen time and create a treat for tomorrow's breakfast.
Have your kids cover the front, back, and sides of a cereal box with plain paper or pieces of a brown paper bag. Then provide plenty of crayons, markers, pieces of scrap paper, scrap felt, cotton, various recycled materials, and glue so your kids can add funny faces. For example, they can use recycled plastic bottle caps and milk jug caps for eyes, a folded triangle of paper or cardboard for a nose, and sections of plastic lids for ears. Cotton from vitamin bottles can be added for tufts of hair or beards, and straws make for fine antennae (for alien faces, of course).
When the faces are complete, your cereal box artists can add descriptive or zany names to their creations. So don't be surprised if tomorrow morning someone asks you to please pass the Banana-Nose Flakes!
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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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