Celebrating Independence – Happy July 4th!
July 4, 2012
I’m not much of a fan of bombs bursting in air, but we do love independence in our house, and are so very thankful to have it! All Cora can talk about is “America’s birthday” even though HER birthday is tomorrow. (side note: I totally ordered her not to come on the 4th and right from the bat that uber-independent child tried her best to defy me. I still won out with her arriving in the wee early hours of July 5, but it was a close one!
To celebrate the day, I just had to make another lunch. This time we have a cream cheese and banana sandwich decorated with more cream cheese and berries. Alongside is a huge strawberry with the coolest tinsel food pick towering over it (I laid it on its side for transport and told Cora to prop it back up to ‘celebrate while eating her lunch’). In our slice of pie silicone cup are white yogurt covered pretzels.
The lunch is finished with pineapple and watermelon fruit stars and a hard-boiled egg kinda molded into a star (the egg was a little small for the mold).
For more 4th of July fun, visit my Fourth of July Fireworks post, then follow the blog hop linked at the end. Several amazingly talented bento bloggers joined in the fun and the lunches are so cute!
To make this lunch I used:
Grover at the End of the Book Lunch
March 30, 2012
Looks like we are heading into a season of lunches based on books. The Monster at the End of the Book is one of my childhood favorites, so I love that its one of Cora’s favorites too!
Cheese grover (dyed blue with natural colors) bricked in with almond butter and marmalade wall
The lunch is finished off by fruit walls and Cora’s special addition – a snow scene. Not sure how it fits but she insists it’s snowing at the end of the book. She picked out the cutters, went to town on a slice of cheese and then climbed up on a stool to place them in the lunchbox. With all that, I had to concede that yes indeed, it is snowing at the end of the book!
To make this lunch I used:
Roaring Good Lunch
March 29, 2012
Cheese quesadilla lion with cheese and raw spaghetti features
Egg mouse with cheese ears and spaghetti whiskers and tail. To make the ears, I cut out two small leaf shapes and froze them to stiffen them up and make them easier to work with. I cut a small slit for each ear into the top of the egg and pressed the pointed end of the leaf into each.
I finished the lunch with rainbow carrot, watermelon and kiwi stars
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Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus Lunch
March 24, 2012
Cora and I were reading the other night and it struck me this would be a fun lunch. While I waited (and waited and waited) for her to fall asleep, I plotted and planned and the next day it easily came together
Cream cheese and banana pigeon sandwich with cheese embellishment (dyed blue with natural food color), carrot beak and fruit leather letters
Pineapple bus with kiwi wheels and steering wheel
Hard boiled egg car (dyed green with natural food color)) and rainbow carrot stars
Finished off with a banana and strawberry hearts
To make this lunch I used:
Spring Bunny Bento Lunch
March 21, 2012
Spring is here! To celebrate, we made a couple cute bunnies hopping among the flowers
Almond butter and marmalade bunny, butterfly and flower sandwiches with fruit leather features and my big secret, held together with dried whole wheat spaghetti (it softens by lunch time)
I finished the lunch with apple flowers, raspberries, a naturally dyed (beet powder) egg bunny, mandarin orange and strawberry flower and carrot tulips
To make this lunch I used:
Smart Girl Lunch
March 19, 2012
Cheese sandwich with fruit leather features
Hummus and carrot ice cream cone
I finished the lunch off with slices of egg with fun shaped yolks and berries
To make this lunch I used:
Funky Bird Lunch
March 16, 2012
Cora made a funky bird from a paper and sticker project and she loved it so much she glued it to the door of her room when I wasn’t looking. I thought it would be fun to make a similar sandwich. The tail is a fan that is meant to go perpendicular to the bird but that didn’t photograph well so I turned it for the picture
Cheese bird sandwich with cheese and fruit leather features
Carrot nest with cucumber birdie, cucumber nest for bird picks and dressing squeezie bottle with ranch dressing
I finished the lunch with cheese curl worms, fruit leather letters, raspberries and strawberry hearts
Cora inspired this lunch just in time for the Bento Blog Network Bento of the Week theme, birds. Check it out, there are always some really cute lunches linked up! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite starting Tuesday!
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