Lunch: Olaf/Sven, Fall, Hungry Caterpillar, Pirate Treasure

Olaf/Sven:

Reindeer Sven is a turkey and cheese sandwich made from a heart shape cookie cutter (affiliate link) black frosting eyes, a ghiradelli chocolate chip nose and square pretzels for antlers

carrot sticks (to feed Sven)

and marshmellow Olaf floating on a pool of blue jello (picture tutorial here)

Very Hungry Caterpillar turned to a Beautiful Butterly:

Butterfly Sandwich (affiliate link) - turkey and cheese, food coloring painted on for wings.  Carrot sliver for body and strings of celery for antenna.

Caterpillar:  Green grapes skewered on a bendy straw

munching on square pretzels

Fall Lunch:

Lunchables:  Leaf and Pumpkin shapes cut from cheese slices and turkey (link) with Big Wheat Thins.

Grape Witches - red grapes skewed on witch picks (link). Faces drawn with edible marker (link).

Witch Brooms - pretzel sticks (these are amazing!!) wrapped with Fruit Roll Up.

Applesauce pumpkin head - face drawn on cardstock and placed on top.

Pirate Treasure Map:

Map Sandwich - Turkey sandwich with slice of cheese on top for map.  Edible markers, fruit snack "treasure" and fruit roll-up x marks the spot.  

Red Grapes - skewered on carrots swords (would have been cooler to use actual sword picks!)

Cucumber Slices - with a bit of ranch dressing on the bottom

and how could a pirate lunch be complete without some Pirate Booty Popcorn?

Happy Creating!

Lunch: Owl, Mermaid and Dolphins

I was a little bummed when I couldn't get my daughter into morning preschool this year.  We were in the middle of looking for a house when registration opened and we still didn't know where we would be living!  By the time we closed on the house, ALL morning classes were full...

The school offers this activity called "Lunchbox Club".  They go twice a week to play sports and games for 30 minutes, then have lunch.  The class is mixed with morning and afternoon preschool classes; after Lunch Box the afternoon kids get walked over to their classroom!  This gets me an extra hour with one less child in the house - with the other kid napping this is my get-things-done-around-the-house time!

The bonus of having afternoon preschool?  I have plenty of time to make lunch in the morning!  

So far we've had 3 days of Lunch Club and I've made all 3 lunches a little special...

Day 1: Owl sandwich - carrot and cream cheese frosting eyes and cheese wedge nose. 

A+ Apple

Carrot sticks

  

Day 2:  Mermaid sandwich - shape cut by hand.  Ham Hair, slice of cheese for face, tail and shells. Eyes are a dot of frosting with a chocolate sprinkle.  mouth is a piece of cilantro stalk.  

Fish: fruit leather cut by hand

Goldfish

Blue dyed yogurt in a fish cup.

Day 3: Dolphin sandwich - turkey and cheese with frosting/sprinkle eye (affiliate link).

Sailing jello - blue jello with apple slice boat and carrot bear sailor

apple and carrot bears

BONUS:  i got to eat carrot and apple scraps for breakfast :)

Happy Creating!