Cereal Box Craft: Mini Doctor’s Kit

I was recently challenged to get crafty with a cereal box. It can be quite tricky when you are given a product with which to craft. You have to look at it for a while and mull it over. Anthea at Zing Zing Tree is a great advocate for this approach to craft and comes up with some amazing things. I tend to have a reactive approach to crafting.

My girls have an obsession with bags. They love carrying things around in anything, whether it is a plastic bag, a play bag or one of my handbags. And so I am kept busy making bags from anything I have to hand. To whit, the cereal box Doctor’s bag.

Because we travel a lot, I love having a stash of small toys that we can take to occupy the children on the journey or at our destination, and mini-cereal boxes are fabulous for this sort of thing.

This was a very rough and ready Doctor’s bag, made from things I had to hand: a cereal box with a triangle flap cut into one side and across the end of the box, covered with duct tape to add strength, and a washi-tape cross to show that it is a real Doctor’s bag. I used a pair of pipecleaners, twisted together, for a handle. Then I stuffed it with medical supplies: cotton pads, lollipop sticks, an old medicine syringe, a couple of plasters and a cooling pad.

 

And of course, there are some other amazing ideas for what to make from cereal boxes from my fellow NetMums Crafters:

Red Ted Art made the most astonishing fairy wings

There were some fabulous animals made from cones by Zing Zing Tree.

Kid’s Chaos had a lot of ideas, including a really fabulous pop-up postcard.

There’s the best hidey box made from an old book by Missie Lissie.