Tiny Cereal, Craft

This week’s Make-n-Take craft is the perfect little addition to your miniatures or tiny food collection!

Make your very own Tiny Cereal! Complete with a bowl of cereal, tiny orange slices, a piece of toast, and the cutest little napkin you’ve ever seen.

Inside your Make-and-Take kit, you’ll find:

  • White scored “countertop”

  • Big tan circle (bowl)

  • Rainbow cereal pieces

  • Plain white paper strip

  • White paper circle (milk)

  • Four orange circles (two light, two dark)

  • Shimmery silver spoon

  • Silver mirrored paper rectangle

  • Dark brown paper square

  • Tan suede square

  • Tiny napkin

You’ll want to make sure you also have on hand:

  • White glue

  • Scissors

  • Hot glue

  • White gel pen

  • Black pen

  • Optional: Glitter or glitter glue

Watch the video below or follow along with the instructions!

Step 1: Make your bowl

There are three steps to making your bowl.

  1. Using your scissors, cut a quarter out of the large paper circle.

  2. Add glue to to one corner of the paper you cut.

  3. Gently fold the other corner to the glue and press gently.

At this point, your bowl is going to look more like a cone! That’s exactly what we want at this step. Set it aside so the glue can dry.

Step 2: Make your spoon

While we wait for the glue on our bowl to dry, let’s make our spoon!

Glue the shimmery silver spoon shape to the back of the mirrored silver paper. The spoon should be facing outward, and so should the mirrored silver. (If it makes it easier, you can start by trimming off some of the excess paper around the spoon shape first.)

Then use your scissors to trim around the edges of the spoon, using the outline of the spoon as your guide.

Step 3: Squash the bowl

Yes! You read that right!

Now that the glue on the bowl is dry and will hold, gently press the tip of the cone down. This will make the tip invert, giving it a shape that now much more closely resembles a bowl.







Step 4: Fill the bowl with milk

We want this to be a full bowl of cereal. So you’re going to take the strip of plain white paper, crumple it up, and hot glue it into the bottom of your bowl. Then add another layer to the edges of the bowl on top of the crumpled paper, and gently press the white paper circle on top. Now your milk is ready for some cereal!

Step 5: Add your cereal!

Speckle some white glue on top of the milk, and sprinkle your cereal on top! Use your fingers to arrange them. Then tuck your spoon under the edge of the milk, and your bowl of cereal is ready to go!

If you would like to add glitter or glitter glue to the cereal, now is a great time.

Use hot glue to glue the bowl of cereal onto your white “countertop” sheet.

Step 6: Add the tiny napkin

Fold your tiny napkin, and add one dot of glue to the bottom. Then add another dot of glue inside the fold and press down so that the fold holds in place.

Step 7: Make your toast

Grab the square of tan suede. Cut it out, using the outline of the toast as a guide. Once it’s cut out, glue it to the brown square of paper. Cut out around the edges of the suede, leaving just enough room for there to be a crust. You can add some cute little speckles to act like toast marks.

Step 8: Make your oranges!

Take your four orange circles and fold each of them on the score line. Glue the lighter orange square so that it’s overlapping the darker orange, leaving a small amount of the darker orange showing to act as the orange peel.

Use an orange marker to add three little teardrop shapes, and a white gel pen for some speckles. Now it looks like an orange slice! Repeat for a second orange slice.

Step 9: Assemble your breakfast spread!

Add a dot of glue to the bottom of each side of the orange slices and arrange them on your breakfast spread. Glue your toast somewhere slightly overlapping the napkin.

Now your tiny cereal craft is done and ready for display!

Tips and tricks

  • Tweezers make the tiny bits easier to handle

  • No markers? Watercolor works great!

  • You aren’t limited to the cereal in the kit. Make your favorite cereal to add!

Thanks for creating with us today!!

We can’t wait to make another craft with you!

See you soon, friends!





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