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Reading is a fundamental part of early education. Studies even show that reading to newborns helps their brain development and can improve vocabulary later on. Reading opens doors to learning, and will be an essential part of schooling forever. 

Chances are that sometime in your mom life you will have a child that needs a book report, and chances are that you also purchase a large amount of boxed cereal. This creates the perfect scenario for these cereal box book reports . They are a fun way for kids to share what they learned in their reading, and a practical way to reduce, reuse and recycle those old cereal boxes. 

The first few steps in the cereal box book reports would be to read the book and buy a box of cereal if you don’t already have a box laying around. If you don’t already have a stash of cereal boxes, it could be fun to let your child pick out the cereal from the store with the book report in mind for the end result. 

The cover of the cereal box is usually bright, colorful, and has the name of the cereal unmistakably large on the front. The front of the box is a lot of real estate for your child to get creative. The cereal name should be the title of the book. The art work on the front should hint to the storyline just like the cover of a book would. 

One side of the cereal box usually has nutrition facts and an ingredients list. The setting of the story can be described in this column. The setting should include things like the location, the era of time. Setting can best be remembered as the time and place. If the setting is described well it is possible for someone to get the feeling of being in the book without having ever opened it. 

Main Characters

The other side of the cereal box is where your child can describe the main characters of the story. Describing the setting and main characters are the fundamentals of a good book report. Main character descriptions can include things like age, role, personality, relationship to other characters, physical appearance, etc. 

Traditionally, the back of the cereal box usually has a maze, a word search, or some kind of activity that kids love to do over and over again. I think we all had that one sibling who did the activity in pen and ruined it for everyone else. The activity should somehow be related to the book. A word search with main character names or setting details, or title and author information could be included. 

Why Book Reports are Important

Book reports are a great way to gauge how well a child understood what they read. Reading comprehension is the only way that reading is beneficial to a child. Making book reports fun and engaging for children could help them have a better relationship with reading. Cereal box book reports are sure to be a hit with your children, and will also help them learn and grow academically. If you try it out, be sure to leave a comment! 

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Revamping Book Reports: How Cereal Box Book Report Promotes Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills

Calling all educators and parents! Do you remember the days of boring book reports? Times have changed and it’s time we switched things up to promote creativity and critical thinking skills. One alternative method that has gained popularity is the cereal box book report . Not only does it provide a fun way for students to showcase their literary comprehension, but it also integrates design elements into education. Let’s explore how using cereal boxes as a unique tool can help revamp conventional assignments and improve overall enthusiasm for reading in young learners. Download here today !

How to Use the Cereal Box Book Report

After reading a fiction book students will design a cereal based on the book to promote critical thinking skills and make the book report and writing part fun. This creative writing project comes with real-life examples and photos. My favorite part is the character ingredient list and the special prize inside part of this book report. Students love this creative cereal box book report because they get to be creative and it is different than just a normal paragraph book writing assignment. In addition, this includes printable templates for students to write on and cut and glue onto a standard-size cereal box so you can display these book reports on real cereal boxes!  Ready to make learning fun and end boring book reports with these create a cereal report? Download here today !

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“We used this after reading a novel.  The entire class created the report using the same book, and the boxes were so creative and unique.  None were the same!!  Thank you for putting this together. “

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Cereal Box Book Report: A Creative Writing Project & Activity for Gifted Students

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• Cereal Box - empty and in good shape (no torn off tops or crushed sides)
• Butcher Paper - assorted colors
• Construction Paper or Scrapbooking Paper
• Assorted scrapbooking decorations/stickers
• Packing tape
• Fishing Line

How to Make a Cereal Box Book Report

Tape both ends with packing tape to seal down the flaps and to keep them from poking up after wrapping. Using butcher paper, wrap the cereal box much like you would a Christmas present, but being sure not to go too crazy on the tape. The boxes look best when wrapped in a neutral color like white, gray, or beige.

The front of the box will have the title of the book, author name, and a picture or object that symbolizes the story. Tell students to select an image or object that would most likely be a movie poster if this book were to be made in to a film. Encourage them to refrain from using an image similar to what is already on the cover of the book they are reporting. Creativity should play a huge part in the overall grading and you want them to come up with an image for the front of the box that is meaningful, but different from the novel’s cover. Students can draw their own image, use clip art they’ve printed from a computer, or use 3-D objects. For example, I had a student create cereal box for the short story, “A Rose for Emily” and hot glue a withered, dried rose to the front of the box and also added a Barbie-size hair brush with a few steel-Grey wig hairs weaved in the bristles. Not only should the image be striking, but the title and author’s name should be bold and visible on the front of the box.

Step Three:

On the back of the box, you can use this space to have students illustrate their knowledge of a lesson you have studied in conjunction with the novel, or if the book is fiction, you could require students to construct a plot pyramid, being sure to use examples from the novel for each step of the pyramid. Non-fiction books could create a time-line of the novel, or a “Facts & Figures” chart that displays the main facts from the book. Require two or three symbolic images that represent the book in some way.

Side one of the cereal box should list the “ingredients”, or characters in the novel. Each main character should also have a few sentences that describe their physical and personality traits. You can require a picture or object that symbolizes each character. The scrap-booking aisles of craft stores offer great stickers and trinkets that would be great for character symbols. Using the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton as an example, students found a tiny jean jacket for Johnny and a miniature football helmet for Derry to glue next to their names and descriptions. It is unbelievable how many different stickers and trinkets you can find in the scrap-booking section! Also keep in mind that I encourage students to type up their descriptions and other textual items on the computer and print them using aesthetically pleasing font and color. Simply writing the information directly on to the butcher paper will appear sloppy and will not leave much room for error. Typing, printing, cutting and pasting on to the box is the student’s best bet and will look the best for the final product.

Side two of the cereal box needs to describe the setting of the story, and include a paragraph description. Side two should also note whether the story was written in first or third person or explain the author’s style of the work (stream of consciousness or prose writing, for example).

The top of the box should contain a theme statement that the student created to best fit the story. You can also require symbolic pictures to accompany the theme statement.

Step Seven:

The bottom of the box will contain two tone words that best describe the first half of the work and then two additional tone words that describe the second half of the work. Images and pictures that represent the tone words can also be required.

Report Presentation

Upon completing the cereal boxes, students should present them to the class; taking time to explain and describe each aspect of the box to the class. I like to display the completed boxes by puncturing the upper corner of the box with a large needle and weaving a length of fishing line through the top. I then suspend the boxes from my classroom ceiling to show off the student’s hard work. The hanging boxes are eye-catching and are also a great way to promote reading in your classroom. Students may venture to try a book they’d never dared to because the cereal box hanging from your ceiling piqued their interest!

Cereal Box Book Report

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• Picture of character or setting (Hand drawn of printed)
• Subject of Book
• Name your cereal (Related to book); Ex: Charlotte's Honey O's (Charlotte's Web)
• Overall Appearance (neatness/creativity)
• Include - "Prize Inside" - One item that best represents the subject
• Must be written in first person
• Remember not to retell the entire story, it is a summary of the story
• An interesting quote from story -- include who said it
• Character traits of a character
• Who are the main character's friends? Family?
• Achievements of the main character
• Age/grade of the main character
• What the main character is interested in
• A connection you made to the text
• Game (Ex: boardgames, crossword, etc) NO WORDSEARCH!
• Game must have sequential directions
• Game pieces (if needed)
• Game must have a minimum of 10 components
• Game must relate to character/story
• Rate the book on a scale or 1 to 5. 1 being the lowest rating, meaning you didn't like the book very much. 5 is the highest rating, you really enjoyed it.
• Include the reasons why you rated it the way you did.
• Make a list of the main characters and who they are, for example: Sophie - The main character of the story. She's a little orphan girl. The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) - a friendly giant who helps Sophie save others from mean giants. 

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• Summary Graphic Organizer
• Wrapped Cereal Box
• Video on writing a summary
• How to write a summary
• Cereal Box directions

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DLTK's Educational Activities - Book Report Ideas Example Diorama - Charlotte's Web

• Her favorite part:   making the pig
• Her least favorite part:    making the fence
• Her mark:   100%
• acrylic paint (red)
• powerpoint and color printer
• straw colored (natural) raffia
• sculpey clay
• black pom pom
• small wiggly eyes
• Halloween web cotton
• small wooden sticks (like popsicle sticks)
• regular cardboard (ex:  old cereal box)
• green posterboard
• corrugated cardboard (we got ours from the scrapbooking section of the craft store.

The Steps We Took:

You could do this all in one day but we never procrastinate!  It's much more fun (and less stressful) if you do a little each day for a week.  

Day 1:  

• Kaitlyn sketched out her ideas on a piece of paper
• Kaitlyn searched through the "craft cupboard" for what we had on hand and for inspiration.
• Kaitlyn made a list of materials she thought she would need - dividing her list into things we had and things we needed to buy.
• Mommy reviewed Kaitlyn's sketch and materials list.
• Kaitlyn painted the entire outside of the box red to look like a barn (we had the red acrylic paint on hand) after covering the table with newspaper.
• Kaitlyn washed her brushes and tidied the kitchen table -- acrylic paint dries in under an hour, so she was able to tidy up without setting anything aside to dry.
• Kaitlyn and mommy sat down at the computer for a lesson on Powerpoint.
• Mommy designed an entire "background" for the walls of the barn while Kaitlyn watched.
• Mommy deleted everything she'd done (to Kaitlyn's horror *grin*) and then Kaitlyn designed her own background for the walls of the barn while mommy watched.
• Kaitlyn printed her design (about 4 sheets), cut her sheets to fit the "walls" of her barn and glued them to the back and sides (inside).

• Kaitlyn glued wiggly eyes and bits of wool to a black pom pom to make a spider -- everything fell off!
• Kaitlyn and mommy hot glued wiggly eyes and bits of wool to a black pom pom -- this time it worked (hot glue!)
• Kaitlyn hot glued Charlotte to the side of her barn, toward the front.
• at this point we had run out of supplies we happened to have lying around the house so we made a trip to our local craft store to pick up sculpey clay, plasticine, wooden sticks and corrugated cardboard.

• Instruct children to jam their pieces together firmly (so the figure doesn't fall apart after baking  
• Instruct children not to leave any "skinny pieces" sticking out (for example, make sure you push the tail against the body) -- skinny pieces will break off easily
• Instruct the children to make sure the piece stands up before you bake it (make the legs short and stubby, not wobbly and skinny).
• after a lot of trial and error -- mom, dad, grandpa and Kaitlyn managed to build a fence for Wilbur
• Clumps of plasticine were hotglued to the bottom of the shoebox floor
• Kaitlyn pushed her fence sticks into the plasticine to act as fence posts
• The fence cross pieces were hot glued to the fence posts -- everyone got a bit burned during the process (make sure you use a low-temp crafting hot glue gun not a carpentry one so that no one gets seriously injured)
• Daddy sawed two corks in half -- to make four corks half as tall
• Kaitlyn glued a square of cardboard to the four half corks
• Kaitlyn used a very creative swirly painting technique (with red and brown acrylic paint) to decorate her stool.
• She traced her shoebox onto a piece of cardboard and added a "Hip roof" type shape to the top.
• She cut out this cardboard shape and glued it to the back of her shoebox
• Kaitlyn cut a piece of green posterboard (as long a strip as possible) as wide as the shoebox -- she left "tabs" on the posterboard.

• Kaitlyn cut "shingles" from corrugated cardboard.
• Starting from the bottom of the roof, she taped these onto the green posterboard, overlapping each a little so it would look like a shingled roof

• She wrote out her name, the name of the book and author's name and attached this "label" to the front of her project

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