What is it with cereal boxes? Â Just when you think you’ll never be asked to bring in another shoe box to your child’s school, they start asking for Cereal Boxes. Â And not any old ones either. Â Family sized – industrial scale – big enough for Hagrid to share breakfast with a few other half-giants. Â This is all a bit hard on a small family who anyway try to prepare organic, healthy grow-your-own oats for porridge or muesli. Â So I’ve decided to find out what actually happens to all these cardboard cuboids. Â Follow me this week as I think of different uses the teachers might have for them. Â First off: just when you thought winter was over, here are some emergency wellies for that unexpected snowfall in the playground.