Hobbies And Interests
Cereal Hangman
One adult must write the names of several different cereals, cereal companies and cereal slogans on pieces of white paper. Place each piece of paper in a hat. Divide the children up into teams. One team picks a cereal message out of a hat and constructs a hangman game on the board. The other teams must take turns picking letters until one team correctly shouts out the answer. The team with the correct answer gets a point. Repeat with a different team constructing the hangman game on the board. Do this several times. The team that wins is the one who guessed the most answers correctly.
Alphabet Cereal Scrabble Junior
Give each child who wants to play Alphabet Cereal Scrabble Junior a small bowl of alphabet cereal. Make sure the children know the cereal is not for eating. Tell the children to make as many words as they can out of the letters in their cereal bowls. Use a timer to count out three to five minutes for the children to spell the words. Award two points for each two-letter word, three points for each three-letter word, four points for each four-letter word and so on. The child with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Capture the Cereal Box
Open a cereal box and remove the bag of cereal. Store the cereal in an airtight container so you don't waste it. Remove the flaps from the top and bottom of the cereal box and set it in the middle of the floor. Each player must bend over and pick up the cereal box with his teeth. The catch is that the children cannot let any other part of their body touch the cereal box or the floor. For example, no standing on your knees to get lower. All the children who succeed must play another round, while the children who fell over or couldn't grab hold of the box with their teeth are eliminated. Repeat rounds until you have only one child remaining. That child is the winner.
Tower of Os
Give each child who wants to play the game a mound of clay. Have the children stick one piece of uncooked spaghetti in the clay so that it is sticking straight up. Set a bowl of O-shaped cereal next to each child. When you say "Go," each child must rush to place the cereal Os over the strand of spaghetti to form a tower. The child who completes her tower first is the winner.