Creative Uses for Cereal

Cereal - one of  North America's favorite breakfast food. There are many creative things to do and ways you and your kids can play with this common food.

Tasty Math: Using cereal is a great way to practice math concepts with your kids, especially for visual and tactile learners. You could use different types of cereal to represent 1's, 10's, and 100's for math problems including simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication. It's math practice you can snack on after.

Edible Jewelery: Use O-shaped cereal and dental floss or licoRice shoestrings to make edible and snack-able bracelets and necklaces.

For the Birds: Once in a while you go to grab the cereal and find a box of stale, unappetizing O's. What to do? Create a treat for the birds. Use some yarn, knot the bottom and string the O's. Tie around a tree branch in front of your window so you can watch the bird's enjoy their treat. Make sure you DO NOT use a cereal with added sugar!

Cereal Bars: Take your favorite marshmallow & crispy Rice treat recipe and substitute different cereals for a different cereal sensation. You can also slip some dried fruit and nuts in to make it more healthy. My favorite is crispy Rice cereal with some toasted oatmeal, toasted pumpkin seeds, and dried cranberries mixed in!

Savory Cereal: Another great use for stale cereal, toss unsweetened cereal with a little oil of your choice, and your favorite seasoning: a ranch dip mix, Cajun seasoning, chili powder, or whatever blend of spices your family loves. Spread out on a lined baking sheet and bake in a low oven (200 degrees F) stirring occasionally until they are dry and toasty. Keep an eye on them! Cool and enjoy.

This Construction Party Menu has Some Creative Recipe Ideas

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Ah, construction, the foundation of the very house where the party to celebrate it is located. It is fairly easy to set up the decoration for a construction theme, a bunch of unused lumber, some hammer and nails, hard hats, overalls, and viola you're your house will scream under construction without even needing to remodel anything. The color orange with white stripes like the barrels, or the yellow of caution tape always go with construction as a theme. Some menu items that go with construction can either be creative to do with the theme or hearty and filling like would be eaten before setting to work.

A construction party menu can be for kids and adults since this is a suitable for any age theme. Don't hold yourself back as far as the tasty treats go and certainly try to be creative! Try starting off with some Rice Crispy Treat building blocks. Dye them red with red food coloring when making them and they'll look just like bricks. If you have the time you can create a fun and edible construction piece, like a building out of them. Another tasty treat is concrete pudding mix. Its yummy and you'll find the recipe later on in the article. Have a breakfast themed party for your construction party with some Linking Log Sausage links, Sunny Side Up Eggs, and Floor Board Texas Toast. Top it off with some Cement Sausage Gravy. All are made like normal, but have fun names for the party theme.

Concrete Pudding Mix is made for dessert or a great Construction party snack. You'll need; one white chocolate pudding mix, Oreo Cookie pieces and Dark Chocolate Chunks. Mix up the white chocolate pudding and place in the fridge to cool. To serve, place a layer of Oreo Cookie pieces in the bottom of a clear wine glass. On top of that place a layer of Dark Chocolate Chunks and finally fill to the top with White Chocolate Pudding. You can garnish your construction party treat with a whole Oreo Cookie or a sprig of mint.

After the party is over you may think it was a real construction zone if your guests are anything but the cleanest people on earth. So do yourself a big favor before hand and plan out how the cleaning will go when setting up the party. One of the most basic things to remember is disposables, such as paper plates that you don't have to wash.