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Healthy Snack for Kids : Butterfly Bento

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Healthy Snack for Kids - Butterflies in a Bento

We visited the Tennessee Aquarium while we were away for Spring Break. At the top of the new aquarium building was a butterfly garden. JDaniel had a wonderful time chasing them around. He also enjoyed seeking them out under leaves and behind trees. It was amazing to see the wide variety of butter flies they had living there. In honor of our visit with butterflies I made JDaniel a healthy snack for kids butterflies in a Bento.
Healthy Snack for Kids - Butterflies in a Bento

The butterfly was cut out of a flour tortilla free hand. It might have looked better if it had been cut using a cookie cutter, but we didn’t have one large enough for a sandwich.

Healthy Snack for Kids - Butterflies in a Bento

The butterfly’s wing design was made using pepperoni and tomatoes layered. JDaniel really isn’t into lunch meat right now. I do still include it in lunches just encase he decides he likes it again. The body of the  butterfly is made of a slice of cheese cut into the body of the butterfly. Small pieces of cheese are the butterflies antennas.

There is also a small butterfly created using a clementine orange and a blueberries. If you follow this blog regularly, you know that JDaniel hasn’t been big on carrots. I do keep trying to put them in snacks and lunches. This time the carrot was paired with a slice of cucumber.

This snack Bento isn’t filled to the brim with food and I did that on purpose. A small snack seems to leave JDaniel hungry for lunch or dinner later. If this snack had included a whole clementine with 12 blueberries, carrots with dip and a fully decorated butterfly, JDaniel would have been full at mealtime.

If JDaniel is full at meal time, he tends to want to take tiny bites of food and then flutter around the room.  I would rather that he eat his meal and nibble on a snack.

Here some more healthy snack for kids ideas:

Star Wars Food Creations for Kids

Bento Lunch with Cracker Sandwiches

Summer Sunshine Bento Lunch

You will find more wonderful healthy snack for kids ideas on my Food Creations Pinterest board.

 

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  1. love these! i have been looking for more lunch ideas for my daughter to take to school. Thank you@

  5. So many creative butterflies!! Yummy and fun! That’s a good combo. (We LOVE the Tennessee Aquarium!!) –The Dose Girls

  7. how cute…
    we loved the aquarium… what did you think?
    i remember the butterflies… one landed on marc and WOULD NOT fly off of him… so we had to wait it out… ha ha ha

  19. Such a cute idea. My daughter would love that. (Especially since we went to a butterfly garden this week on our vacation.) Thanks for linking up on #KidsintheKitchen

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