Making Lunch Fun: Valentine's Day

How was your Valentine's Day? And your Thanksgiving? Christmas? New Year's Eve?  I took a little break, of sorts - no reason in particular.  I just wanted to enjoy the holidays with family, and then afterward I found myself a bit unmotivated.  

Wanna know something really spectacular that happened while I was away?  Domestic Femme blew past its 100,000th visit!!! I think I'm getting the hang of this SEO thing :)

I kinda like to do special lunches for the little guy, on certain days of the year (See: Easter, Birthday, 1st Day of School).  I did this last year, for Valentine's Day:

  

The containers were spotted within the Valentine's Day section of my local grocery store.  Cool, huh?

This year, I covered up his lunch in some wrapping paper, slapped on some fun stickers, and topped his drink with ribbon.

 

Voila!

What fun lunch ideas have you created?  Did you do anything for Valentine's Day?

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Making Lunch Fun: First Day of School

 

Our son's first day of school was yesterday (3rd grade!).  To celebrate, I made him an extra special lunch.  Unfortunately, I didn't have a number 3 cookie cutter, so I improvised, using a pastry bag tip to stamp out the appropriate shape.  The sandwich is simply a PB & J, with sprinkles.  I sliced up a Red Delicious and cored it with one of my Cross mini cookie cutters.  

I used our Food Saver's "seal" function to cut a plastic snack bag down for the cookie.  Then, I used yellow, chevron card stock and affixed a cute button that I made, which says "You're one smart cookie. (I hope your first day is awesome)".

I made a printable, that includes a "smart cookie" button by itself (in case you'd prefer to attach it to a different colored/patterned cardstock), and a bag topper, with a yellow chevron background and cookie button.  Click here to print them.

Do you do anything special for your kiddo's first day of school?

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Making Lunch Fun: It's Your Birthday!

I got this idea from Happy Home Fairy, and fell in love with the notion of having to unwrap individual lunch items.  What a fun way to make their school day special on their birthday! 

First of all: Yes, I sent my kiddo to school with a Mountain Dew AND a bag of cotton candy in his lunchbox. 

1) It's his birthday and he n-e-v-e-r gets soda with his lunch; dessert items are a rarity as well.

2) His grade level went on a field trip today, so it's not like he'll have to sit still at a desk for hours after consuming this.

   I used my star cookie cutter, to stamp out the sandwich shapes, drew a Minecraft Creeper face onto the Mountain Dew bottle with a Sharpie, and wrapped everything in polka dot wrapping paper.

What exciting lunch ideas have you tried with your little ones?

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Making Lunch Fun: Easter Eggs!

 

I found the idea for this on Pigskins & Pigtails.

It took me all of 10 minutes and I only wish I could see the look on my kiddo's face, when he opens his lunchbox tomorrow.

 I just grabbed a bag of last year's empty Easter eggs, washed and set them on a washcloth.  While they dried, I made a sandwich and cut it into small pieces.  I slipped a Bible verse in one of the eggs and his sandwich & grapes in the rest.  

What other fun lunch ideas have you used?

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