Cereal Box Dominos : Ruxton Ridge & West Towson Elementary are Changemakers

The Ruxton Ridge School and West Towson Elementary are only separated by 197 feet. And still, these communities found a fun way to draw even closer with their Cereal Box Dominos event to build community and support food security.

With this being their first year as a community school, Sherri Fisher, Ridge Ruxton’s Community School Facilitator has been seeking ways to build community.

“We’d been doing a lot of different meetups, peer play dates, and different kind of engagement, but decided it would great to come together on a service project,” said Sherri. “In thinking about the larger community and the challenges with families facing food insecurity, this just felt right,” she continued.

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Based on a similar event she’d seen online—where students built and knocked down a domino chain out of breakfast cereal boxes—Fisher engaged both schools, and the community really got behind the event. After students (willingly!) did the math to determine how many boxes were needed, the community came through with more than 650 boxes—exceeding the goal!

After the event, the boxes were donated to the Maryland Food Bank.