On another day, I packed raspberries and blackberries with a snowman pick, a few snowman SweeTarts, some yogurt covered pretzels, and peanut butter on snowflake shaped Ritz crackers. This snack and the one above were both packed in boxes from Target’s Dollar Spot.
Santa was the theme for another snack, and she had blueberries on Santa and Christmas tree picks, a few Santa-shaped pieces of Christmas Crunch cereal in the red silicone cup at the back, sunflower seeds in the Santa container, and Santa-shaped pieces of cheddar cheese in the green silicone container. Below those snacks were a few white cheddar cheese puffs. She mentioned that she saw those in other kids’ lunches and would like to have some one day. She had a lot of tearful days recently at school, so I included the cheese puffs here thinking that they might be a bright spot in her afternoon.
I did talk my daughter into one Christmas themed lunch. They were focusing on the letter F and she agreed that a Frosty the Snowman lunch would be a good idea. So, on Friday last week, she had a Frosty peanut butter sandwich decorated with a toboggan pick and cookie decorations from Wilton. I also spelled out Frosty in picks since my daughter likes her food to be linked to what she is learning in class. Along with the sandwich, she had carrots, red pepper strips, sugar snap peas, blueberries and grapes on snowman picks, Cheez-Its, yogurt covered pretzels, cheddar cheese shaped snowmen, an icing snowflake, and a little blue cup of sunflower seeds.
The funny thing about these two lunches is that neither my daughter nor my husband ate the Frosty sandwiches. They each took a bite of the head and ate some of the decorations but left the rest of the sandwich. They ate the other food, just not the sandwich. My daughter reported that she, “Did not want to get nasty from that black stuff.” left by the snowman buttons and my husband said he didn’t have enough time. Oh well, I also had a Frosty sandwich, but I ate mine :).
Be sure to click here to continue to the next stop at Mommy Kiki Can! to see what she has to share for Week Two of the Holiday Ho Ho Hop. I am sure it is something great; her lunches are always incredibly elaborate, detailed, and fun!
23 Comments
Rebecca
December 13, 2012 at 4:11 PMFrosty is my favorite!! Nice job on these!
berrygirl@mommy kiki can!
December 13, 2012 at 4:25 PMA treasure of great ideas! You have tons of Christmas Spirit!!! Love it!
happyvballgirl
December 13, 2012 at 4:26 PMWOW! They are all so festive and fun! SO many great ideas and I especially love your Frosty lunch.
Kandice Poirier
December 13, 2012 at 4:40 PMfrosty! love it! they're all so great!
Karen Quick
December 13, 2012 at 6:27 PMI love them all! Great job, Momma!
Mamabelly
December 13, 2012 at 6:29 PMLove all these great snack ideas! Great Round Up!
Jenn @ BentoForKidlet
December 13, 2012 at 6:45 PMWow! So many great lunches! Love them all! 😀
Myra of Mommy+Me Lunchbox
December 13, 2012 at 7:10 PMthose are awesome lunches! Yum!
Crystal
December 13, 2012 at 8:22 PMThe Frosty lunch is especially cute!
Amanda
December 13, 2012 at 8:39 PMyummy!
Eileen Shows
December 13, 2012 at 10:34 PMGreat job! Shame they missed out n those yummy sandwiches
Rina @ Bento School Lunches
December 13, 2012 at 11:45 PMThey are all very cute, we love frosty!
Keitha
December 14, 2012 at 12:49 AMCute! Love the themes. Where did you find the nesting Santa cutters?
bentodays
December 14, 2012 at 3:12 AMCute lunches!
Sarah
December 14, 2012 at 3:40 AMWhat a fantastic range of themes! They all turned out great!
Rebecca of LiciousLunches
December 14, 2012 at 12:32 PMThe nesting Santa cutters are from Hobby Lobby. I found them last year in the clay/sculpting section for around $1.
daisyselalu
December 14, 2012 at 3:22 PMSo many beautiful lunches! Well done! Love Frosty's blue scarf!
Kendra Peterson
December 14, 2012 at 6:34 PMThat's why I use raisins! No bled licorice color/flavor! Mine hates black licorice, so would also have avoided her sandwich for the same reason. And eaten the rest of the candy off the top!
Are those little gingerbread men holding gumdrops candies? Picks? They are too cute! Love all your lunches and snacks!
Jeana-mom to royalty
December 14, 2012 at 7:57 PMWhat a great creative variety of snacks and lunches! My favorite is the snow man sandwich! CUTE!
Rebecca of LiciousLunches
December 14, 2012 at 7:57 PMThe gingerbread men with gumdrops are icing decorations. I bought them at Target. The gingerbread man part is really hard, you have to crack them with your molars so my daughter actually thought they were picks and didn't try to eat one.
Diana - FreeStyleMama
December 20, 2012 at 6:42 PMCute! I love how each as it's own theme!
Erin Walker
December 21, 2012 at 12:02 PMLove it! Awesome boxes too! I need to hit the Target dollar spot more often!
Loving Lunches
January 5, 2013 at 11:51 AMLove the Frosty sandwiches