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Every evening, shortly before bedtime, the munchies hit. The kids rummage through the cabinets, murmuring, “What do we have to eat? Suggest something, Mom!” Usually I would offer up a few suggestions which were rejected. I knew we needed to change our eating patterns and find something we could all agree on for a Good night snack. While I was shopping at Walmart, I passed a display of Kellogg’s cereal that caught my eye. I had there Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops were available in new boxes featuring characters from the hit movie, Planes, but they weren’t in our store yet. Instead, the boxes had a night time design. The first thought to enter my mind was, “Good. Night. Snack.”
I wanted to make sure the kids knew the snacks were available and ready to eat so I came up with a sneaky plan to encourage snacking. I purchased small, single serving sized cups and covered them with some stickers I found from the movie planes. I placed them on a small pedestal stand and added a Planes glow-stick to the middle of the display. It makes a cute, eye catching centerpiece, while reminding the kids to stop and eat the cereal.
Not content to have the cereal readily available, I came up with a Planes place mat craft project to tempt kids to eat cereal as their good night snack. This project is super simple to make and is easy enough for young children to help and anyone in Kindergarten and up to make. To make the placemat, you need 1/2 piece of poster board per mat, in your favorite color, scissors, glue, a pencil and Planes stickers. Draw a the body of a plane free hand and cut out with scissors. If you draw the wings separate, you’ll need to glue them into place. Add the Planes stickers where ever desired on the plane body. Place the cereal bowl in the middle of the plane and you’re ready for take off!
While I couldn’t find the specially marked Planes: Fire and Rescue boxes, be on the lookout for them at your Walmart. Each box has a code that allows you to receive five great offers, ranging from $7.50 off a Planes: Fire and Rescue movie ticket to a dollar off two boxes Planes fruit flavored snacks.
Do you have a favorite Kellogg cereal? What are some of the goodnight snack ideas you encourage your children to eat?
Very cool snack idea.
Making individual servings of cereal is perfect. Sometimes we’ll grab a few handfuls and dump it into a baggie to take in the car with us when we’re starving. #Client
I love how you made the little snack cups planes! I love the codes on the boxes of Kelloggs its one of my favorite programs!
Cereal is my favorite nighttime snack! I love the idea of individual containers. Plus the codes on the boxes are a great deal!
Great idea – easy and fun!!
Oh those are such cute little portion bowls! That would seriously have helped encourage my boys to eat when they were little! I need to do something similar with Ponies for my daughter.
That’s a great idea! We have the night munchies too.
We love Krave cereal!
I currently dread bedtime with my kiddos because they always want a snack. These are perfect for them!
Cute ideas… we love cereal and not only for breakfast…thanks for sharing
I love me some fruit loops! What a fun snack idea!!!
We get the night time munchies here as well, and cereal is always a favorite choice. I love your airplane place mat; that would be a great project for kids!
What cute Planes ideas! My kids cannot wait to see this movie!
Ha, ha, ha! I love it. We love doing placemats for the table and especially love allowing the kids to make them, so this is just perfect!
So cute! We buy their cereal often, they seem to be on sale a lot and I only buy cereal on sale – we go through a lot of it! lol
cereal is like my favorite food! what a great way to make snacks fun! might have to try some of these with my three year old.
What a fun and creative way to make snack time fun! Thanks for sharing.
Very cute idea. We often take cereal to snack on, it’s perfect on the run in the morning too!
My family munches on cereal at night all the time. Lately I am on a Frosted Flakes kick.
I bet the kids love getting cereal as a snack! Yum! Your little craft is adorable!
The plane craft is sooo cute!
My kids would eat cereal every minute of every day if I let them! And to be honest in the summer heat, I let them quite often!
What a great way to direct the kids towards their snacks. I love the plane cutout. It’s super cute.
Frosted Flakes are my fave! Cereal has always been one of my favorite late night snacks. It’s not too heavy, and just enough to take off the edge off that hunger.
Looks like a craft my son would enjoy! I always eat a bowl of cereal before bed 🙂
I have been a big fan of corn pops for many years it is one of the best cereals in my opinion. love theses ideas.
I love Corn Pops, Apple Jacks and Raisin Bran!I like to crunch and have bite-sized snacks so cereal works perfectly!
Froot Loops are our favorite. We ear cereal for snacks a lot in our house, too!
I love that plane craft. That is a super cute idea.