Functional & Edible Cereal Necklace

Edible Cereal Necklace

Art can be beautiful and art can be functional, but isn’t it nice when it’s also edible?

Give each child a piece of yarn, string, or fishing line that is long enough to fit over her head when tied. If you use yarn or string, it can be helpful to younger ones if you put a piece of tape on the stringing end so that it’s firmer and goes more easily through the hole in the cereal.

Directions

Encourage the child to put the cereal pieces on the string. Give whatever assistance is needed to be successful. Tie the ends of the yarn together when she’s done to make a necklace. Have your child count how many pieces of cereal are on the string.

Variations

1) After the child counts the number of cereal pieces on the string, let the child eat some and then count how many pieces are left. Can your child figure out how many were eaten?

2) If you want your necklace to be lasting, instead of edible, string other things, such as buttons, short pieces of colored straws, or macaroni and other hollow pasta shapes.

3) Instead of string or yarn, you could use pipe cleaners and turn the project into rings for the finger or loops to hang around the ears.

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