Freebie Friday Oct. 2, 2009 Teaching with Cereal Boxes
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At the craft store the other day a lady had made a scrapbook about her life using a Life cereal box. It got me thinking what a cute way that would be to make a memory book for my Kindergarten student this year. I know, it sounds kind of weird. But, honestly I save all the cardboard from our cereal boxes. As soon as they are empty I cut them down so they lay flat and save the big pieces. You never know when you are going to need a free piece of cardboard! The kids are always using them for crafts, making their own board games, puzzles, etc. I find myself using them too and I have learned over the years that they can be made into all sorts of educational items. So this week we are going to talk about cereal boxes as educational material.
Teachingtwo.com has simple instructions of making cereal boxes into puzzles for your preschoolers. My kids have adapted this to make all kinds of creative puzzles by creating their own artwork on the back side of the box.
http://www.teachingtwo.com/2009/08/31/recycled-cereal-box-puzzles/
Texas Speech Communication Online has an interesting activity for older students called The Breakfast of Champions: Teaching Audience Analysis Using Cereal Boxes.In this lesson kids will learn how to analysis a cereal box to learn more about the audience the box is aimed at. That is certainly thinking outside the box!
http://www.etsca.com/tscjonline/1206-cereal/
Building a Better Cereal Box will teach kids that there is more to a cereal box than meets the eye. This is a great fun lesson on volume that your children will remember each time they pour a bowl of cereal!
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_199801/ai_n8799520/
How about a little something for mom or grandma? Scrapbooking.com has great instructions on making your own cereal box planner! It is not only practical, but very pretty too! http://scrapbooking.com/article/72640
This post is one of my favorite uses for cereal boxes! You can use a simple cereal box to make organizers for those little books that are never easy to find! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/jaminacema/462650/
Just for fun I thought I would share one of my favorite recipe that includes cereal! You have to do something with all that cereal so you can get to the box!
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/jaminacema/663806/
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