Great “What to do with an old Cereal Box?” Challenge: Radical recycling...

radio10

According to my council leaflet you can put waste food in an old cereal box then place in your green bin provided your council are collecting food. (ours has just started). Also, a use for the waxy paper bag inside is cut out discs to use as jam covers for all you jam makers out there!

curriej99

Use them for storing breakfast cereal. Also I've noticed they tend to fit quite nicely into kitchen cupboards, so this is a novel way of saving space on the worktop.

Mike_Murphy

When the Bran Flake box is empty roughly rip up the box into small irregular pieces, put them in the bowl and pour milk over them. Don't taste too dissimilar ans saves the planet/landfil etc! ...........................only joking............honest.

TEssery

The Paper Cinema has found a way to turn old cereal boxes into art. Artist Nic Beard creates small but perfectly formed ink drawings and mounts them onto card from cereal boxes. Using an old-school video camera the drawings are projected onto a screen to create a montage of moving images, accompanied by live music from Kieren Maguire. It's art at its most minimalist but the shows are intimate and enaging. Check it out if you get the chance:

www.thepapercinema.com

burrjulie

Bit of sticky tape, bit of cutting out here & there. Followed by some enthusiastic painting by an excited 4 year old & you have the best cardboard doll's house there has ever been!

P.s. not to mention the lovely rainbow effect of colours left remaining when you have forgotten to bring it in off the decking over night & it rained!

My daughter thought the rainbow fairies had paid a special visit to her new dolly house!

:A

babyshoes

Any sort of box (not just cereal) makes a fantastic toy for my ferrets. It is even better if it is stuffed with little balls of newspaper. The bag inside is lovely and crackly too. There is almost no need to buy toys for them, boxes and bubble wrap are some of their favourites, along with golf balls they manage to nick from the OH's golf bag!

shaz22

I also use cereal boxes to send eBay items cutting them down to size and taping if too large for an individual item. The cat food boxes that contain the pouches are also useful in this respect! I think that falls into the Cat Cereal Box category so as not to digress from this thread!

deltat

You can stuff the box (or 2 or more boxes stuck together) with small toys and sweets, cover with paper mache and paint in any colour/design to make a homemade pinata for childrens (or big kids) parties. I made a Lego shaped one out of a cereal box and toilet roll middles, but you can make anything square shaped, like sponge-bob.

Another thing that is a great drinking game is to have a contest to see who can pick up the standing open cereal box from the floor using only their mouth. The rules are:
- no hands allowed
- players must only have feet on the ground (no knees/elbows/hands etc)
After each round, the box gets cut or torn by 1 to 2 inches so it gets shorter and harder to pick up each time. Depending on how good people are, you can end up with just the base of the box on the floor!

purpleivy

michaelsutherland wrote: »

In the kitchen at my work there are loads of boxes of healthy cereals on top of the cabinet. I have taken in an empty box of childrens cereal (full of sugar and they type that makes the milk go chocolately) and left it there. My manager, who is a health nut, went round questioning everyone to find out who was bringing unhealthy cereal in. Classic.

Food Police or what?

mrs_T

Nile wrote: »

Get the scissors out and create your own cheap version of a magazine file, ideal for storing copies of magazines and papers.;)

Click here to use as a guide

Regards

Nile

Similar to this in my last house I cut diagonaly across the narrow sides of a cereal box leaving about a 3" lip at the front, covered it in wall paper and pinned it to the inside of a tall cupboard door for storing all the tall kitchen things such as rolls of foil, cling film etc. Lasted for years (or at least till we moved house).