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Cereal Crafts For Toddlers
This article brings fun cereal crafts for toddlers! These easy DIY toddler crafts use cereal boxes, pasta, and glue to boost fine motor skills and creativity. Perfect for sensory play, recycling crafts, or mess-free learning. Turn breakfast leftovers into playful, educational adventures!
You had heard about cereal for food purposes only, but here is another amazing use to make your kids happy. Sometimes it is not easy to keep our children from crying. Here is the solution. We can make different Interesting crafts for them to get rid of their irritation. No matter what the food, we can make their funny crafts & cartoons in many ways. Some of them are described here for your kid. So let’s start.
Did your kid refuse to have cereals again for breakfast, or while eating their breakfast, they spilled some cereals on a table, or you forgot about some cereals kept in the last cabinet of your kitchen, and they are expired now?
Now instead of wasting cereals, why don’t we put in to some good use which can make your kid fall in love with cereals again and show them that anything, even breakfast, can be used for crafting?
Art and craft have no limits, and anything present in this beautiful world is an art, and everything can be used to make amazing crafts.
So here we are with the best, creative, and adorable cereal crafts for your toddlers, some of them are even yummy and can fill your toddler’s tummy. Keep your learning spirit alive with our curated list of cereal crafts for toddlers like paper plate gram aquarium, fingerbees crunchy honeycomb, cheerio-thread bird feeders, crunchy foodie bangle, Christmas tree, cereal fruits on toilet paper’s tree, fruit loops fish, the tasty headband, rainbow-luscious, and winter cereal crafts.
Cereal Crafts For Toddlers
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Paper Plate Gram Aquarium
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts By Amanda
Take a circular plate, and circularly paint its large central part with sky blue color (water). Allow it to dry. Take an art sheet. Cut 3 to 4 fish-like structures and color them with different colors. Make sure to use buttons or small pebbles for making their eyes. Cut the art sheet into grass-like structures. Stick grasses first, then fish on grasses with glue. Take some grams, paint them with different colors & stick them in the lower half of the painted plate. It will look attractive in the rainy season.
Fingerbees Crunchy Honeycomb
Image Source/Tutorial: Teaching Heart
Draw a diagram of a honeycomb as shown in the figure or as of your choice. Fill it with a golden or yellow color. Stick some fries or crunches on the diagram. Dip your fingertips in yellow color and print them around the honeycomb. Draw an outline around fingertips & draw eyes and small feathers to complete a honeybee.
Cheerio-Thread Bird Feeders
Insert some fries/crunches/biscuits or something light, edible food product in three to four threads (can use straws even). Join all of them with a single large thread or rope. Hang it on a branch of a tree or plant. It will help to feed hungry birds. If used in the room for kids, ask them to jump & catch crunches by mouth without using their hands.
Crunchy Foodie Bangle
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Activities Blog
Insert some crunches/biscuits in a thread & tie it on the kid’s wrist. Whenever the kid would feel hungry, will directly eat them instead of crying.
Crunchy Christmas Tree
Image Source/Tutorial: Atividades Educativas
Cut an art sheet in the shape of a Christmas tree. Stick some colorful crunches, fries, and nuts on it. Making this craft on Christmas Day would make your day memorable.
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Cereal Fruits On Toilet Paper’s Tree
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning
Draw an outline of the upper part of the tree (branches) on cardboard & cut it off. Make 2 slots on one end of the toilet paper roll, facing each other. Stick some cereals on the tree and insert the tree in the slots of the roll. Tell your kids about plantations.
Cereal Button Little Flower
Stick a button on cardboard. Stick some cereals around the button. Draw small stems & leaves of a plant just starting from beneath cereals.
Cereal Giraffe
Image Source/Tutorial: Meaningful Mama
Draw outline a giraffe as shown in the diagram (cartoon). Stuck some cereals on the body of the giraffe. Give some specific color to the eyes of the giraffe.
Cheerios Fish
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning
If you have some leftover Cheerios and want to make something cute with them, then this fish with huge googly eyes is the best craft to make with your kids. It has tasty Cheerios stuck on its body and is easy and simple to make with kids. The suitable age group of kids: 4-6 years
Fruit Loops Fish
Image Source/Tutorial: The Simple Parent
If your kid loves colorful fruit loops and you are in the mood for doing something easy and simple craft and don’t want to put much effort, then fruit loop fish is a great idea. The only thing that is difficult while making this craft is to stop your kid from eating Fruit Loops while making it. The suitable age group of kids: 4-6 years
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The Cereals Beardy Guy
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
Isn’t he cute? His long orange beards are made up of cereals, and he is lucky enough to have beards that he can even eat. You can make this craft with your kid and can stick this craft on your wall as decor, it will look better on the kitchen wall. The suitable age group of kids: 4-6 years
The Tasty Headband
Image Source/Tutorial: Parents
Do you want to make an accessory that looks cute and can be eaten when your kid is hungry? Sounds weird, right, but it isn’t. This cereal headband can be used as a snack and is super fun to make. Use it as a new way of making fun accessories with your kids. The suitable age group of kids: 5-7 years.
Tasty Tentacles
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This cute octopus craft, whose picture is present just below, is one of the easiest and cutest cereal crafts to do. Make these tasty tentacles of this adorable octopus with the help of your favorite cereals. There are many colorful bowls of cereal available on the market, and you can use different colored cereals to make any color tentacles. The suitable age group of kids: 4-5 years.
The Winter Cereal Crafts
Image Source/Tutorial: Crazy About My Baybah
If you want to make some cereal crafts related to winter and Christmas, then you might like the craft whose picture is present above. This craft can make your Christmas decoration look beautiful as well as tasty. So don’t forget to try this one out this Christmas. The suitable age group of kids: 4-5 years.
Rainbow-luscious
Image Source/Tutorial: Growing a Jeweled Rose
If you have different colors of cereals available, then you can try making this yummy and rainbow-luscious (colorful and tasty) craft. This is super cute, and the cotton balls used as clouds make it look more realistic. The suitable age group of kids: 4-6 years.
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Fruity Decor
Image Source/Tutorial: Kellogg’s Froot Loops
This decoration made up of fruit loops is one of the best uses of fruit loops available in your home. This can be used during kids’ parties, and this can make parties more happening. Use this endearing idea to make the decoration this time beautiful as well as tasty. Do this craft with your kids to let them know more about the ideas to decorate their parties. The suitable age group of kids: 5-6 years
Fruity Hand
Image Source/Tutorial: Mom It Forward
Want to make learning a little bit more fun than making this delicious and fun-looking cereal hand? Make your kids count the number of cereals used in their palms, fingers, and thumb, make the counting fun, and keep an eye on your kids, they might eat it before counting. The suitable age group of kids: 3-4 years.
Cheerios Worms
Image Source/Tutorial: Mamas Like Me
Worms might look disgusting, but this one doesn’t. They are not only pretty but yummy too, their googly eyes make them look more fun. Ask your kids to count the number of cereals used in making worms, and you can even eat these worms later. The suitable age group of kids: 3-5 years
3D Fruity Rainbow
Image Source/Tutorial: Kindergarten Lifestyle
If you want your rainbow to look more realistic, and then make this 3D rainbow and a rainbow which can later be used in breakfast too, then this is the craft you were looking for. You can even teach your kid about VIBGYOR and the different colors present in a rainbow while making this rainbow. Now, make learning fun with these yummy and creative cereal crafts. The suitable age group of kids: 4-6 years
Crushed Rainbow
Image Source/Tutorial: Mess For Less
It might look like colorful sand inside the bottle, but that’s not the case; it’s cereals. If you want to make this bottle rainbow but your kid is too small and can put sand in his/her mouth while making it with sand then you can use this smart idea of crushing colorful cereals and arrange them in order of rainbow in a bottle and now you don’t have to worry about your kid putting these in his/her mouth. This bottle can even be used as home decor for your kid’s room. The suitable age group of kids: 3-5 years.
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