Cereal Box Craft - Bookmark Holder

I created this nifty bookmark holder for my daughter. She is starting her career today as a 4th grade teacher. I made her 30 of recycled bookmarks for her students and decided to make a holder for them to sit in on her bookcase. I used a fruit roll-up box, tape runner, scrapbook paper and then covered it all in mod podge.

Cereal Box Craft - Wallet/Business card holder

The original instructions are on replayground. However, I chose not to hole punch and use elastic but too just use a velcro dot.

cereal box or other cardboard box
template
scissors
pencil
ruler
scoring tool
velcro dot

Cut template, trace around box with pencil and cut out. Score where folds are indicated. Assemble.

Cereal Box Craft - Pencil Case

Thanks to RePlayGround for the template for this project! The directions come on the template, however the score lines did not print I had to do them myself.

Open a food box at the seams and flatten it out.

Trace template on cardboard and cut it out. Mark the score lines ( I skipped this and just did it by looking at it) and fold.

Fold up pencil case, tuck bottom flap. Secure with tape, or your favorite adhesive. I used my tape runner.

Attach a self adhesive hook and loop fastener. ( I will be attaching velcro dots)

Enjoy!

Cereal Box Craft - Postcard

I have decided to try and reuse cardboard cereal boxes, fruit snack boxes, etc... along with the liners in the cereal box.  The liners can be used to wrap food in for lunches, can be used in place of waxed paper and make great paint catchers for small paint jobs such as crafts.

The first craft I did was the bookmarks and now the postcards. There will be more to come as I complete them.
I am thinking about making little gift sets  of all the recycled cardboard crafts to give out to kids in my daughters classroom for Christmas.

First flatten out a cereal box, soda carton, fruit snack box etc.... and gather needed supplies such as paper cutter, scissors, xacto knife, ruler etc..

Cut into 4 x 6 rectangles (this is the max size allowed as a postcard per the US Postal Service).

Round corners using a corner punch or leave it as it is.

Take a black permanent marker and draw a line down the middle and then draw lines for the address.

The finished project!

Bookmarks from recycleables

About a month ago I came across myplumpudding which had this wonderful idea...bookmarks from cereal boxes, but I took it one step further by laminating them to make them last longer. Well then I thought why stop there? Why not from labels, soda cartons etc..... These make adorable gifts. You can add them inside a card, a stocking, or put them with a book for a cute gift. I will be offering these for sale for $1.00 which includes shipping. If you purchase 2 or more the first one will be $1.00 and the others will be $.75 which includes shipping.

I will be offering some of these free to the first 20 followers of my blog. So far I have 4. Please comment and let me know the easiest way to contact you to get your mailing information. Not sure how to promote this as I am new to all of this but please spread the word. I will be offering this through the month of July.
Thanks for looking!