How to make a Cereal Snack Necklace

Back a few weeks ago I talked about a project we did called the "Board of Great Things."  Where we wrote down all the things we wanted to get done over the 90 days of summer break.  One of the things that we added to the board was, make cereal snack necklaces.  So one night, during a movie/game night we decided it was the perfect time to make some, and boy was it fun!  And they are super easy to make.  Here's what we did.....

We took some colorful cereal.....

Some scissors and hemp twine.......

Poured our favorite cereal in a bowl and began stringing it up.

I made one of the cereal loops be my starting place and to help tie it on once it was all put together.

Every few inches Skylar got on the twine, he ended up eating.  Ha!

Using the same cereal loop as before, tie the other end to the opposite side of the round.  

He made a pretty good color pattern once he stopped eating them all.  :-)

Skylar wanted to wear his necklace in the pool though.  

We then had us a bowl of cereal and hung the a few out for the birds to have too!

I think these snack necklaces would work great with other items as well.  Similar to the one below...

Photo source:  Blondie and Brownies

Lots of fun!

    

Hermit Crabs have made great pets

Skylar had been begging and begging for the last year for some sort of a turtle for his room.  I grew up in Arkansas were turtles ran around all day long and you see about 5 of them in your yard on any given week, but not here in Oregon.  Oregon is the place you go to Petco and see a turtle being sold for over $100.

You read that right, $100 FREAKING DOLLARS!  FOR A TURTLE!  Apparently these turtles, according to the worker are, "very rare and require special maintenance."  WHAT!?  Yeah right, we aren't buying that turtle.  What kind of special maintenance would it require, it doesn't have fur, you don't brush its teeth, what in the world kind of maintenance could this ugly thing possibly require?  Throw it in a box with a warm rock and you're done!  Besides that, I am not paying $100 for a turtle.

Sooooooo..... we settled on a few hermit crabs.

These things are actually pretty neat to watch.  They are pretty smart about what's what and all you do for care is spray them once or twice a day, refill their food when needed and also refresh their fresh water and salt water daily.  We enjoy watching them crawl around the kitchen floor too.  Skylar takes them outside on warm days and lets them crawl all around.  They make great pets for kids and also teaches them responsible.

Skylar names his hermit crabs Yoda, Wicket, and R2!  

Much better choice than a turtle, don't you think? :-)